2.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 7/20
Pours a cloudy golden colour with a ridiculously large head. Way over carbonated, mouthfeel is creamy, thick and basically over the top. Aroma is floral, its hard to distinguish a lot of different flavors because of its intense carbonation. Fruity, very dry.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Large frothy slowly dissipating white head with some cloudy amber beer underneath. Aroma of grain, grassy hops, citrus and sweet malt. Heavily carbonated body of caramel, citrus, toasted grain, noble hops with a dry finish. A little bland but ok.
1.2 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 1/5 OVERALL 3/20
Picked up a single 12-oz bottle at Flanagan’s in Appleton, Wisconsin. Pours a hazy dirty orange amber brew containing particles with a thick and lumpy off white head. Aroma of roasted caramel malt, some grassy and citrus hops, a touch of dried herbs and light brown sugar. Taste is metallic, very acidic with a tart caramel flavor. This could be an infected bottle due to the high carbonation and dark particles. Willing to try and rate again.
2.8 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
Drank at a Battlecats game in 2003. For baseball park beer, pretty good stuff. Basic run of the mill, Bud equivalent, but with enough malt and hops to provide some decent "real" flavor.
2.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Over carbonation produces a huge foamy head and negative influence for the taste and palate. Interesting and pleasant aroma that I couldn’t identify. Light, crisp taste with a hint of hops, but a little watery. More trouble to pour than it’s worth.
2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
It had a very large head and was gold in color. I actually had to remove some of the head to drink this one. The taste was nothing special.
2.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
Pours a slightly effervescent golden with some small yeast floaties and a huge, over-carbonated pillowy, airy white head that takes a long time to subside. Sweet Belgian malt and candi sugar are balanced with some earthy hops in the aroma along with some floral bready yeastiness. Body explodes in the mouth releasing even more carbonation with a little sweetness before a much more bitter, earthy dryness takes over, thinning some toward an airy finish. Not really sure what style to consider this, but I’d hardly call it a special reserve.
2.2 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Way too light and watery to be taken seriously. Insipid and uninviting watery, pale yellow. Virtually no aroma...I give it points for not smelling bad. Flavors are watery and distant...maybe a touch of honey and citrus. Better avoided.
2.4 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
On tap at the brewpub. When they say "lightest ale" they mean it! Looks like a lager to me...yellow with a fizzy white head. No aroma to speak of. The flavor is not much better with lemon and honey barely detectable. This is not the beer to be marketing as "special reserve"
2.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
Special reserve? WTF. The beer decided to never stop foaming. Golden body. HUGE white foamy head that keeps creeping from the bottle. Had it stopped foaming, I could have rated the appearance higher. The aroma is lemon pledge and icky malts. Not worthy of the title "Special Reserve". The flavor is cereal-bowlish. Honey injected cracklin oat bran. The palate is over-carbonated and acetic. Not a great brew.
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