Piston Broke - Box Steam Brewery

damndirtyape

Ohio

4/5  rDev +29.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Served in a straight wall UK pint glass at the Kings Head Inn in Salisbury, UK.

Appearance: Copper clear beer with thick creamy white foam. The foam does down after awhile to a thin persistent foam across the top. Thin streams of lacing all over the glass.

Smell: Sweet malt with some bready tones...almost a hint of cupcake when first poured, but mellows out as it warms up. Very appealing. The hops are mild in this - just a hint of them in there.

Taste: Very well balanced - perfect blend between hop bitterness at the end and smooth malt at the beginning. Very nice.

Mouthfeel: Shortly after pouring, just a hint of carbonation on the tongue, but it goes away quickly and leaves a beer with a juice-like consistency. Smooth and thick enough to be notable.

Drinkability: Went fantastic with a meal - for a single hopped beer, this one is very well balanced and at 5%ABV, is incredibly drinkable. I can easily see myself having another pint of this, and I noted that quite a few around the bar were having this one as well. An overall solid good beer.

Serving type: cask

07-03-2010 19:13:50 | More by damndirtyape

His_Royal_Hoppiness

United Kingdom (England)

2.5/5  rDev -18.8%

09-06-2012 00:13:10 | More by His_Royal_Hoppiness

BlackHaddock

United Kingdom (England)

2.75/5  rDev -10.7%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5

Lunch-time hand pulled pint in ‘The White Hart’, Shifnal on 20th June 2012.

Light amber body with a creamy off-white head that produced some good lacing.

Weak flavours from the start, more malts than hops in my opinion and not a lot of maltiness either: aroma was only slight hop/malt/yeast esters, the taste just a hint of beery ingredients. Leaning towards boring!

Serving type: cask

08-21-2012 10:23:07 | More by BlackHaddock