 TheBeerLover (1013), DC Metro Area, USA
Aug 13, 2008 12 oz can purchased at the brewery in Garrattsville, NY. Pours to a beautiful, bright, amber color, with a tight, white head that fades, and a good carbonation. The nose on this beer is pleasing with some good zesty and herbal hop aromas. Palate is soft, with good pale and stewed malt flavors, paired with light fruity esters. This beer finishes with more good pale and stewed malt flavor up front, then ends with a gentle, mild hop bite that lingers. Enjoyable, very drinkable pale ale, with enough aroma and flavor to please the beer geek in me, but a beer that you could pound with impunity. I love a good drinking beer like this.
Guinness4Duff (464), Tallahassee (and Poconos, PA), Florida, USA
Aug 17, 2008 Can at Fats in NYC. Amber pour with an off white head, looks like a typical APA, but after that all bets are off. I think this one has an outstanding flavor. It starts off almost sour with noticeable fruit backed by sweet malt then finishes bitter with a smokey essence like that of a scotch. Really good drinking beer, I have no idea why it is rated so low.
beerbomb (172), New Jersey, USA
Jan 7, 2008 Pours honey amber with thick white head. Very nice toasted, caramelly malts and floral, woody hoppiness in the aroma. Flavor is very well balanced between citric, floral hops and sweet, toasty, nutty malts with some vanilla and earthiness. Almost creates a fruity balance like in good ESBs. Dry, crisp palate with nice lingering flavors. Very enjoyable and a good value.
JoeMcPhee (3807), Jackson Heights, New York, USA
Jan 7, 2008 Amber colour with a thick white head. Aroma is very fruity with loads of cherry and raspberry. Lean pale malt with just a kiss of caramel and toasted malts. A hint of spiciness and light earthiness. Flavour is also quite fruity and spicy with loads of berry and light peachiness as well. Fairly assertive spicy/herbal bitterness. Much better than I would have expected. Fruity and spicy but sufficiently dry to drink more than one. I wasn’t expecting anything but this was fairly nice.
cgarvieuk (2525), Edinburgh, Scotland
Sep 23, 2007 Updated: Aug 15, 2008Bottle at Oliver Twist , Stockholm ... Hazy copper... sweet fruity high hop ... smooth toffee malts quite soft and sweet with sweet hops showing up ...drying juicy hop linger.... TK2 Can from GBBF had at home ... This is a nice solid ale.tasty and balanced im suprised at how low it scores. I wonder if the fact its a can does this.
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