2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Decent enough summer refresher, but not enough cherry tartness carries through the initial splash of flavor...seems to have a split personality...is it a sweet fruit beer or a malty amber ale? Just OK.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Pours a beautiful amber copper reddish color with a small white lacing head. Aroma is bitter cherries with a hint of vinegar. almost like a red wine. Taste is dominated by sour cherries. Very acidic, almost like a fruit juice gone sour. Not bad.
2.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
This is the least desireable beer I’ve had from Bells, a big disappointment. Sour, metallic, and sometimes skunky, I had a 6 pack that I tried to mellow in the cellar, but it just didnt’ work (the last bottle was vinegar I think, I dumped it out). There are some good malts in there, deep down...But it really just seems like sour beer, can barely even get any cherry flavour.
2.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 1/5 OVERALL 12/20
Nice golden color,smal white head with an aroma of cherry and a sour thing going on here.The taste was cherry and sour with a slightly mild hint of hops at the end but the cherry is a bit more then i’m used to having.I’t good but not that great as well.The wife loves it though on a good note i guess it’s worth a try but littl emore then that.
2.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 2/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Started out nicely with the aroma of tart cherries dominating with some hops and malt singing back-up. Fizzy in the mouth. Medium bodied. The flavor was off. The tart cherry aroma didn’t carry over into a nice cherry taste. To acidic. This seemed to be a cross between a lambic and an amber ale, doing neither justice.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Dusty red-orange. Nose sour and tart. Flavor tart cherry, bit sour, a bit of mild fruity burst. Biscuity at the end.
2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
UPDATED: OCT 24, 2005 Tart cherry aroma, tart cherry flavor over a sweet caramel malt body. Barely one-dimensional and a huge disappointment.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
I bought a six pack and drank a few last night, and enjoyed them. I looked forward to having more of them tonight. Its not that remarkable, but certainly is very drinkable. I doesn’t have alot of nuances. I can definitely taste some cherry but not that much. This really doesn’t match up to Bell’s Oberon Ale, which the Liquor store clerk told me is thie Bell’s brew their store sells the most of. But to give an idea of its quality, I’d definiitely rate it a notch or two above any Sam Adams brew I’ve had, and it correspondingly costs about a dollar more.
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