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Motor Boat
SweetWater Brewing Company
- From:
- SweetWater Brewing Company
- Georgia, United States
- Style:
- Extra Special / Strong Bitter (ESB)
- ABV:
- 5.6%
- Score:
- 84
- Avg:
- 3.72 | pDev: 11.56%
- Reviews:
- 150
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Oct 10, 2019
- Added:
- Aug 29, 2008
- Wants:
- 26
- Gots:
- 60
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Ratings by glid02:
Reviewed by glid02 from Georgia
4.34/5 rDev +16.7%
look: 4 | smell: 5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
4.34/5 rDev +16.7%
look: 4 | smell: 5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
Cask wet-hopped with Chinook served at the brewery.
Pours a hazy brown-copper color with a one-finger tan head. The head recedes into a thin layer on top leaving solid lacing.
Smells like something I never want to stop smelling - citrus, pine, floral, herbal, if it's associated with a hop it's here. Backing up the hop aromas are grainy and lightly toasted malts that gain steam as the beer warms.
Tastes good, just not as good as it smells. Hop flavors dominate but caramel malt flavors that are more earthy and mineral-like than sweet serve as a sturdy backbone. As with the smell the malt flavors assert themselves more as the beer warms. The ending is solidly bitter.
Mouthfeel is good. It has a very nice thickness with a surprisingly moderate amount of carbonation.
Drinkability is very good. I used all my tickets (six total) on samples of this and I would use six more if I had them.
Overall the wet-hopping influenced this beer more than the cask conditioning as the carbonation levels were almost identical to the draught version. Regardless, this beer was hoppy already but the extra Chinook pushed it to a new level. I can't wait to try Wet Dream after tasting this.
Sep 24, 2009Pours a hazy brown-copper color with a one-finger tan head. The head recedes into a thin layer on top leaving solid lacing.
Smells like something I never want to stop smelling - citrus, pine, floral, herbal, if it's associated with a hop it's here. Backing up the hop aromas are grainy and lightly toasted malts that gain steam as the beer warms.
Tastes good, just not as good as it smells. Hop flavors dominate but caramel malt flavors that are more earthy and mineral-like than sweet serve as a sturdy backbone. As with the smell the malt flavors assert themselves more as the beer warms. The ending is solidly bitter.
Mouthfeel is good. It has a very nice thickness with a surprisingly moderate amount of carbonation.
Drinkability is very good. I used all my tickets (six total) on samples of this and I would use six more if I had them.
Overall the wet-hopping influenced this beer more than the cask conditioning as the carbonation levels were almost identical to the draught version. Regardless, this beer was hoppy already but the extra Chinook pushed it to a new level. I can't wait to try Wet Dream after tasting this.
More User Ratings:
Motor Boat from SweetWater Brewing Company
Beer rating:
84 out of
100 with
456 ratings
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