2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Gift from a friend who went to Cape Cod. Pours completely clear dark golden with a small head. Aroma is apple and macro corn with Wonder Bread, white bread aroma. Taste is similarly white bread maltiness and corn with a light herbal bitterness at the end. A light but felt mouthfeel and average carbonation. Really just a boring, uninteresting lager with no creativity or seeming purpose [for a micro brewery].
12oz bottle, St. Paul snifter/tulip glass.
2.2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
12 oz brown bottle courtesy of jjpm74, thanks John. Very cool looking label. Good yeasty aroma for a lager. I also detect some sweet candy hints in there too. The appearance is slightly darker than yer typical pale yellow lager and there are many streams of carbonation rising from the inside, very attractive. The head on this looks more like strongish ale than a lager. The initial taste is pretty strong for a lager. Now I see that it is a dort! Yes, way to much quality for just a pale lager! I should have read the label closer! Creamy carbonation. Has the bitterness that you would expect from a quality dort. Some citrus rind bite with hints of hops and perhaps malty bitterness too. Better than Victory V lager and Great Lakes Dort Gold. This beer has some alky taste impact tho it is only rated as 4.6%! Tastes like more. Not quite as well mannered as Edenton Helles Angel or as refined as Lowenbrau. This beer does have a tasteful personality all its own and I’m glad I had the opportunity to taste this. Quite an experience. Finish is medium mild bitterness that hangs for a few moments.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
From a 12 oz. bottle with a bottling number on the back label that I can’t make out, sampled at cellar temperature in a lager glass.
Poured a clear lager golden with a foamy, bubbly white head, decent retention, slowly dissipates into a thin sudsy lacing.
Floral and fruity nose with a touch of lemon and sweet grainy malts.
Good carbonation and a crisp, dryish, smooth medium-light bodied mouthfeel.
A straightforward tasting dortmunder, fruity and sweet pale malty, touches of graininess and dry husks, floral, lemon tea-like hops with a soft bite towards the end, and a dry, clean finish.
An easy drinker, refreshing, nicely done.
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle... a pretty tasteful, strong, hoppy lager. Pale color, white head. Earthy and fruity aromas. Flavor has bit of a hop presence and finishes clean with some sweetness.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
A standard but strong entry into the lager category. Drank at brewery. Obviously fresh and surprisingly hoppy with some malty-ness to it. A nice beer but I’ll stile with their pale ale
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
UPDATED: AUG 25, 2009 12 oz bottle. Pours a light copper with a fizzy white head, and hardly any lace. Aroma is slightly cracker like, light corn hints, some bready malts and light herbal hops. Flavor is lightly sweet and malty, but moslty cracker-like with light herbal hop hints. Finishes crisp and dry- pretty clean overall, but nothing there, and may be a bit old.
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
12 oz bottle, via jjpm74. Pours a clear light gold with a one finger fine bubbled creamy white head. Aroma is of clean bready malt with a light grassy hoppiness. Flavor is a little harsh to me personally. The malts come across as very husky and grainy and the hops are barely present at all. Mouthfeel is light bodied with moderate fizzy carbonation. Overall, not the best, and something that I wouldn’t purchase again.
2.7 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Another bottle compliments of bob. I hope you like the porter I left for you. Shiny light gold pour with a one finger white head. Lemon and butter nose, just hopping with diacetyl, wow a truly legendary buttery nose. I can’t get past how much this is exactly like popcorn at the movies smells with extra butter topping. Wow. Flavor is yeasty butter, and light lemon citrus. A lot of banana happening here too. An odd little lager that is not unpleasant. Lingering buttered banana in the finish. It is the kind of banana flavor found in packs of laffy taffy. I really wish I had internet access to see if this is the same tastes others got off this. I actually kind of like the yeasty banana flavor, but the over the top butter is taking away from it.
Ap-4 ar-3 tas-6 pal-3 ov-11
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