2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
(Draught) Pours a lightly hazy golden body with a medium off-white head. Aroma of citrus, melon, dough, caramel, and grass. Flavor of caramel, citrus, and caramel malt with a moderately bitter finish.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Draft at Tipping Point. Pours amber with thin white head. Aroma of citrus hops. Taste of piney hops. Fairly malty. Easy drinking. Best beer they make easily.
3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
12oz bottle. Great pour, beautiful cloudy copper color. Good aroma, definitely some fresh hops in there. Taste was strong, this one is middle of the road as far as IPAs go, but I thought it was a noble attempt, and I couldn’t find much to fault. Points for appearance, taste and palate. Back 40 is doing some good work!
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Tasted from 12oz bottle into tulip, thanks brentfeesh! I really like Back Forty’s naming and bottle design concepts. It poured a nice reddish copper color with sudsy beige head of tiny bubbles and some lace. Aromas of pine resin, mild grapefruit, caramelized brown sugar, some faintly fruity ale yeast esters. Strong hops bitterness and flavor but with a strong amber malt sweetness as well. Hints of biscuits and honey, apricots. Too hoppy to be called balanced, but well-crafted and complex. Medium body and carbonation, zesty, tart, and fruity aftertaste. Good stuff. So far, very impressed by this brewery.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Draft. Pours copper/amber with a largish off-white head. Aroma is quite hoppy -- citrus, some tropical fruit, a little piney. Flavor is that plus some grainy caramel malt. Medium mouthfeel. Decent,
3.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
An average IPA. Very little aroma. Strong hops. All the strong IPA hops, not a mild IPA more in your face... or your belly.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Draft at the J. Clyde. Hazy gold pour with a thin white head. Scent is citrus, grass and caramel. Taste is caramel and citrus.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
UPDATED: MAY 17, 2012 Enjoyed at the opening of the Back 40 tap room. Lovely copper pour. Great hoppy aroma with tons of big C hops...which I am told is Citra. Tropical. Flavor is solid with grainy Malts and tons of citrus rind flavors provided by yummy hops. Great ipa body. Yum.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
on tap @GABF-pours gold with a disappearing offwhite head. Aroma is light malt. Taste is light malt, hint of grassy hops. Less hops than the Pale Ale.
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