3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Draught at the brewpub, Downtown location, as Capitol City Double D
Hazy dark amber color; creamy head. Nice aroma of hop and caramel. Sweet malt flavor, caramel too, good body structure, with a very good hopping. Very good. Long final.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Downtown location. Thick, syrupy light gold color. Luminous. Aroma suggests blueberry cotton candy, green apples and pineapple. Intense, rather synthetic fructose sugar. Dominant taste of pepper, alcohol, and banana; more or less a banana liqueur or some variation of Malibu. Honey lends a smoother, more amicable sweetness at the end. The finish is fairly foul, with a hot, faint bitterness. A hop compost bonfire. Slick and powerful palate; completely indelicate. A fine idea. Flawed execution, uninteresting realization.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Draft Downtown. Glowing murky and soft yellow, very hefe-like in appearance but with a small white head. Very full, very nice banana yeast esters in the nose, dry and sour smelling. Very balanced with the sweet unferentables, though, and crisp, with a lemon sourness up front. Midly corase, a bit starchy, bitter over the middle and into the finish. Has a weird grassy flavor and is quite dry in the finish, but overall it’s a solid beer.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 15/20
Draft (downtown location)... Murky golden ale with a small, creamy, white head. The nose is torn between that of a Belgian tripel and an American IPA. Light fruity esters, mild spicy phenols and then BANG!, pine and grapefruit. Malty, fruity, sugary-sweet flavor, but then BANG!, those American hops kick in and totally balance things out. Full-bodied and silky with humble carbonation. Lengthy sweet, then bitter finish... dries out in the end.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
(Shirlington) Cloudy golden body topped by creamy, fluffy off-white head that leaves nice lacing. Aroma is moderately sweet, grapefruit, pineapple. Taste is moderately sweet, pineapple, grapefruit. Finish is moderately dry, light Belgian yeast. Medium-full body, some acidity, creaminess. Nice double, but the Belgian qualities are nominal.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Tap at RFD for Winter Holidaze Extravaganzee. Cloudy golden-orange; white head with decent retention. Lots of piney hops; hints of a belgian style underneath. Similar mouthfeel: plenty of dank piney hops, with a light malt backbone; light belgian backdrop. Medium finish: dry, hoppy, spice.
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