English Six Grain Ale - Stone Arch Brewpub

ncketchum

Wisconsin

3.48/5  rDev -3.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5

Served chilled in a SN pint glass

A - pours a clear straw color, lots of carbonation, significant pure white head

S - yeasty, bready malt, subtle hops underneath

T - malt dominates, hops come through in the finish

M - pretty thin, well-carbonated, smooth

O - This is a nice beer, certainly sessionable

Serving type: bottle

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cokes

Wisconsin

3.5/5  rDev -2.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

The brewery has changed hands, changed names, and this one one of the two new brews that have shown up in the bottles here in Madison.

Six grains: Barley, wheat, oats, rye, corn, and rice.

Pours a golden shade of copper and balds quickly.
Traced with butterscotch and rye-spice on the nose, cut with pear skins and with a minor vodka-leaning suggestion of strength.
Begins with a malt conglomeration of caramel, spicy rye, sweetened breakfast cereal, apple sauce, and golden raisins. Yeast has a near Ringwood essense of woody diacetyl and butterscotch. It work favorably here. Hops chime in with lemon zest and iron-flavored orange pekoe. Solidly bittered. There is a stray alcohol fume at the close, which seems a bit rugged for a beer of presumed lower potentcy.
Hovers around medium bodied. Drinkable and decent, if a bit confused. Think: macro lager - English IPA cross.

Serving type: bottle

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