Brew Kettle Stanley Steamer

Brewed by The Brew Kettle/TBK Production Works
Style: California Common
Strongsville, Ohio USA

Serve in Lager glass

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pours a clear light copper/dark amber with a good foamy head. The aroma is relatively hoppy with American hops, kind of in the Amarillo range, that give a fruitiness that adds to the slight yeast fruit. Some light toast maltiness rounds it out for a quite drinkable brew.

This pours a clear amber body with a thin layer of tight white bubbles laid there as if by an afterthought. The aroma has light sweet malts (the color had me expecting caramel) with some light juicy fruits and a trace of earthy bitterness. Nice malty flavor with a balanced herbal bitterness. Decent.

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Deep amber in appearance under a thin white skin. The nose finds a light grapeiness & yogurt atop a base of pale malts. Balanced flavor (a little thin) ends up with a tart yeastiness and mild, herbal bitterness (Hallertau?). Pleasant.

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It’s exciting to rate a beer that few have rated (today, #2…Someday, #1). Anyhow, had this brew at home after it settled from the airline flight. 22oz. Bottle, no bottled on date. Poured with a pleasing copper color, minimal white head. Lite aroma overall with hints of gain/biscuit malt and some metallic like presence. Really did not care for the aroma on this one, think it affected my taste rating adversely. Tasted biscuit like malts, some wood (oak?) with nice hop bitter finish (citrus and pine I guess but Kind of mashed together). Nothing too exciting. The body helped the flavor linger, but (as the flavor was just fair)…. Overall just fair.

Some spicy notes in the aroma. Orange copper body, clear, small ring of head, some lacing. Bright bodied - spritzy on my tongue. Sweet malts, some fruityness, spicy on my tongue, some herbal notes at the finish. Seems to have a nice body to it, but the carbonation keeps clearing it out.