2.6 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
This beer came in my beer club. Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a dark orange-amber color with a large orange-white head. The aroma was sour, tangy and vegetal. The flavor was sour, tangy, malty and lightly vegetal with a touch of a fruity undertone. The finish was long and sour. Eh.
2.3 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
bottle was amber, nutty malt aroma maybe something else, too simple, but crisp and decent
2.2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
I choose to interpret this beer’s award of a medal at the 1996 GABF as a sign of the improving quality of American brewing, and not as a sign of meaninglessness for these awards. In short, I didn’t find this beer to be all that commendable.
Aroma was a sort of brass colored tan with minimal head. Aroma was virtually non-existent. Flavor was thin, and the predominant characteristic was an ash-tray like flavor. Mouthfeel was thin.
I wouldn’t recommend this, and in fact I resent the Microbrew of the Month people a bit for sending it to me.
2.1 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 7/20
The aroma is OK. Bread, yeast. Flavor is malty and watery. Very thin feel. Bad after taste. Not too good.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
(12 bottle from Beer of the Month Club on September 4, 2008) Sitting in my pint glass, its steady carbonation has failed to maintain any bit of its quickly-diminished head. Its lacing is frothy, heavy, slides down the glass to the clear orange-amber altbier. It has an aroma of a macro brew - industrial, can’t make out any particular aromas. Its flavor is very tinny... almost rusty. Barely noticeable hops. Just tastes dirty. Thin, light malt.
3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
poured a medium amber hue with a thin white head that had no retention. Aroma had a heavy malt note mostly caramel notes.
flavor was mildly sweet with a light hop back drop. Finish was smooth.
2.4 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Just not crazy about alts. Flavor is too mellow for my tastes and after a slight hop finish it gets stale.
2.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
Receive as a BOTMC selection for August 2008: Labled as BBC Amber Ale. Poured from the bottle into a pint glass. Pour produced a clear amber body topped by a medium ecru head of foam. Aroma was of hay and malt. Medium bodied and bitter, this ale has a dry aftertaste at the end of the flavor profile. Initialy, this ale doesn’t have much of a palate and it’s overall taste is dominated by the dry, bitter finish.
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