3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
bottle. Pours a golden orange with off white bubbly head which soon turn into lacy swirls. Clean malty aroma, pound cake, soft blueberry, sap, earthy. Medium bodied, soft, and creamy mouth. Taking big gulps feels good, clean, crisp, and refreshing with lots of flavor. Flavor is pretty much all malt with the spruce imparting more of a piny sweet, sap like element rather than a bitter, sharp element. This is highly drinkable and pretty warming. A great beer I would come back to and session.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Pours clear dark orange with a foamy beige head that fades leaving little to no residue. I haven’t had many spruce beers so I don’t know if I am smelling the spruce or just a combination of floral and citrusy hops, there does seem to be a light pine type aroma though along with grain. Taste is very nice, lots of nutty and biscuity malt with a good amount to spruce and citrus flavor. Very easy drinking but with lots of flavor.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Nose is mostly sweet caramel, hints of spice and biscuit. Tastes a little too sweet for my taste.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
12 oz bottle.
Pours a golden honey color with orange hue and a soapy one fingered white head. The nose was spruce, piney hops, pepper, cereal, caramel malt, and nuts. The taste is initially cereal and bready malt with caramel and slight honey followed by spruce tips, more piney hops, and pepper. The mouthfeel is light to medium and somewhat slick.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Golden orange color with white foam. Hard to discern aroma. Light malty flavor with some banana and ginger. . A bit flat
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Amber, white head, dense lacing. Clear, blue and huckleberries, berry seed smell, honey tart aromas. Tastes of unsweetened jam, bread malt, honey, evergreens. Finish is crisp, mild and refreshing with piney hops and rich malt that hides the alcohol. A nice winter ale.
3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
22oz in DeKoninck glass. Amber with small disspiating head. Aroma is soapy and sweet like honey. Flavor is bright, almost candylike, with notes of tangerine and chamomile. The heavy, resinous finish I was mostly expecting is in fact virtually absent -- finish is on the sweet side.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Poured from 12 oz., dark golden, amber, with reddish hue, medium off white head. Nose was a nice sweet blend of malts and wood; must be those spruce tips....Nice taste,balancing out the sweet and bitterness. Medium bodied with a bit of an oily texture. Good long finish, on the warm side.
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