3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Amber pour with creamy white head and lace. Paper, peatiness, and caramel. Smoke, caramel malt, with a resiny light bitter. A bit thin and watery.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
On tap @ Barrio - Pours a clear light brown color with a faint light tan head. Aroma and flavor is caramel malt, and light chocolate with a touch of diacetyl. There is a lingering bitter finish. Medium body. Worth a try.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
on tap-pours no head and bark copper color. Aroma is soft spice, syrupy, medium malt-carmel. Taste is spice hops bite, syrupy, medium malt-caramel/peat. Plenty of effervescence.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
tap at brewpub-deep copper hue with a small fizzy eggshell head-sweet nose and lots of diacytl. dark malt and buttered popcorn flavors. wow, this is pretty bad. next please.....
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 10/20
Sampled on tap at Barrio Brewing; March 2011
This beer arrives with a lightly browned, amber-tan colored head that sits on top of a dark amber beer that has lots of red hues in it. The aroma smells sweet with notes of caramel and toasty grain up front, but then quickly picks up a softer buttery note that is a sure sign of diacetyl.
The beer has a rich sweetness to it, but has some spritzy carbonation to balance this. There is a touch of diacetyl here that is most prevalent in the nose at first, but the buttery note really lingers on the palate even contributing a certain slickness to the texture. If you ignore the diacetyl, and the fruitiness that is also in this beer, there is a clean lager note underneath (that sentence really doesn’t look very promising). This was an interesting attempt at a lager and a bock, but the fermentation program for this beer still needs some serious attention to detail and work, there might be a nice lager / bock here somewhere and I would love for Barrio to give this another go.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
On tap at Barrio
Appearance: Clear copper with a small off-white head and good lacing
Aroma: Toasted malts and nutty
Taste: Toasted malts, grainy and nutty
Ah, ok.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Draft at Barrio. Pours clear orange/brown; thin off-white head; spotty to poor lacing. Nose is sweet malt and peanut brittle. Flavours are sweet malt, some nuttiness. This is far, far, simpler than it ought to be, but I don’t dislike it. Hmmmm... Simple yet pleasant.
2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
Reddish. Aroma of buttered popcorn jelly bellies. Damn it tastes the same. Move along.
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