Lightly hazed copper colored brew. Smaller khaki colored head. Subtle, mild aromas make on work for this one. Light caramel and pale malt mix with a touch of cloves and banana. A very light dunkleweizen scent. Flavors of light brown sugar mingle with dry spices of cloves and ginger. Some light fruit salad joins the fray with some grapes, bananas and pears. Flavors light the aromas are mellow and subdued. Some DMS comes in as this warms and some fermentation faults seem to be evident. A mix of a dunleweizen and belgian amber. No major flaws, but enough small ones to drop this down. One of the best things about this one is that it has a long malty linger, with lightly toasted malt with a mild berry side.

22oz. bottle, 2006 vintage ("Artist Series"). Sweet, sugary, spicy aroma, some cinnamon and orange along with a a certain herbal, tea-like aspect, perhaps some faint licorice and further hop citrus in the background. Largely opaque garnet color, the head and lacing almost entirely absent after a short while. Flavor is sweet, spicy, seemingly full of yeast and with a tinge of mild bitterness, combined with more herbal and lightly citric hop tones, also a certain fruitiness, lightly berryish and almost candyish in some ways. Perhaps a trace of alcohol very late. Fairly smooth and sticky on the palate with a medium-full body. A bit muddled I suppose, but mildly interesting in its way.

From a bomber purchased at Lukas Liquors in KC. The body is opaque copper with a light khaki head. Non-alcoholic apple cider domniates the smell. There is a hint of ginger spice. The taste has some strange mixes occuring. There is a little bit of apple and cinnamon. However, you also get some notes of carrots and romaine lettuce behind that. A confusing beer, but it is ok.

From a 22 oz. bomber with no freshness date, sampled at cellar temperature in a chalice, part of the Artist Series, purchased at Lukas in Ellisvile, MO. Poured a cloudy reddish amber with a small foamy off-white head that quickly settled in a thin tiny bubbly lacing, very, very minimal amount of sticking. Aromas of sweet oranges, pineapple, sweet spices, light clove, and grain bready at the edges. Moderate carbonation and a softly crisp, dryish, thin, watery light bodied mouthfeel, too much of a watery light bodied feel for my tastes. Thin malts and watery tasting, orange zest and pineapple juice, cinnamon, clove, nutty, a watery tea-like flavor (the hops?), thin, watery grainy malts with a touch of toffee, once again, a watered down alcohol taste towards the end, and a dryish, thin, watery malt finish. Having been to the brewery/brewpub and Square One, this was a major disappointment, too low in carbonation, thin and watery are a common theme with me, unless I hear about an improvement, I won’t be trying this again.

Seriously now, if you’re only going to bottle one beer why not make it a good beer. This is quite crap. Poured from a bomber dark hazy orange / copper with a quickly disappering tan head. The aroma has musty malt, light spice and root beer. Mouthfeel is thin and watery with minimal carbonation. Taste starts like overbrewed tea and and sassaphras - very astringent. The finish is fairly spicy with notes of cinnamon. This is mediocre at best.