3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
Pours a deep orange with a a creamy, off-white, diminishing head. The nose is caramel malts and citrus hops. Medium-bodied and almost creamy, the flavor begins with a sweet caramel front with a light hop backing transitioning to a lightly bitter finish. This is an easy-drinking session, but nothing extraordinary.
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
On tap @ the brewpub. Pours orange with an off white head. Spicy, floral hops and caramel maltiness aroma. The flavor is malty, caramelly, and biscuty with some mild hops at the start. The hops are perfumy and not really piney or citrusy in the least bit. Good mouthfeel, finishes slightyly bitter.
4.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 15/20
Medium orange. Almost a syrupy consistency with an intermediate hop floral/citric basis. Good beer, the kind I could drink all day, a bit kickier than most average pales.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
On tap at the brewpub. Very hoppy nose. Fuggles perhaps? Amber in color. Sweet flavor of caramel and honey. Good hoppy flavor. A chewy and well-made beer.
2.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Toasty, caramel malt aroma, some citric hop, grapefruit and brown sugar sweetness. Light-medium orange-amber color, lightly hazy, with a fine, slight head. Flavor profile is in keeping with the American Pale/Amber theme, malty, toasty and biscuity but also quite sugary, almost cloyingly so which is rather inappropriate for this style. Finishes with some light-moderate fruity, bitter hops. Medium bodied. Just too sweet, really, for my tastes.
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