2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Bottle. Rush of slight, English hops with toffee notes and some funk. Clear orange body with some funk. Super excitable, both in the bottle and the glass, with a large soapy white head. Significantly sweeter than their other APA, with a light metallic touch. Again, some sweet hoppy funk but no real bitterness. Slight metallic burn before the end. Medium body. Eh.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Even a vigorous pour couldn’t raise much of a head over the slightly hazed amber body. It has a caramel, malty aroma with some apples and toffee. Drinking it is almost like eating a sour caramel apple with an earthy hop bitterness arriving late in the game. I would’ve thought this to be an amber ale due to the flavor and weak hopping. Why do so many "flagship beers" come across as something I’d just as soon not repeat? <font size=-4>From <a href=http://www.ratebeer.com/ViewUser.asp?UserID=1 cellar.<font size=-1>
3.1 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
On tap at the brewery tasting room. Copper to redish in color, server with not much head. On the maltier side with some subtle hop aroma and flavor. Fuller body.
3 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
(bottle) Honey-copper colored with very little white head. Faint malt aroma. Flavor is more caramel malt with only a bit of hops in the finish.
3.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Draft, at 3 Floyds Brewpub. Gotta love the guest taps. If they’re going to the trouble of bringing in guest beers, the least we can do is drink them! A nice, coppery APA body under a thin APA head. It’s a very respectable APA, but it simply seems too average next too all this 3Fs stuff!. Clean, well-tuned, not a lot of faults to it. Not a very distinct hop profile, either, which is a mark against it, but a minor one.
4.4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
This is a great microbrew. Bitter hops mixed with a smooth finish make this one of my favorites!
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Hazy copper body with a thin, off-white head. The aroma is mostly malty, with a small amount of bitter hops to make things interesting. Toasted grains, caramel, whole nuts, brown sugar, and a touch of pine. Average mouthfeel with acceptable carbonation. The flavor displays more of a hop bitterness than expected from the nose. There is malt present, but it’s more one dimensional than I would have prefered. The finish is lightly bitter and of decent length. Average.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
At the brewery. The appearance was that of a small sized ivory head with small-large bubbles that was mostly lasting throughout my rating. The body was uncarbonated, clear with an orange-brown hue. The nose was berries and malt with a bitter and hoppy flavor. The mouthfeel was smooth, somewhat dry and light. This beer had excellent lacing on the sides of my glass.
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