Dominion Ale

Brewed by Old Dominion Brewing Company (Coastal Brewing Co.)
Style: Amber Ale
Dover, Delaware USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker

(draught) medium amber/copper. Very little off white head but nice lace. Faint malt aroma, hints of biscuit. Flavor was fairly sweet malt with a touch of old socks - perhaps the keg had sat for too long.

Bottle: Hazy copper color with a white head. Aroma, very malty, some caramel, not much in the way of hops in this bottle. Flavor, sweet, almost syrupy, there was a metallic flavor to it.

Bottled (vintage 2005). Hazy orange colour with small white head. Aroma is vanilla, malts and flowery hops. Flavour is caramel, hops, hay and some grassyness. Some metallicness also.

Draft at the DC Brewpub. Decent ale. Color was somewhere in the dividing line bwtween yellow and brown. Kinda one the light side, but had a noticable hop flavor. Ok

Bottled (vintage 2005)
Light amber color, not much head. Strong butterscotch - diacetylic aroma. Hard metallic start, then crisp malty and butterscotchy flavors. Malty and hoppy aftertaste.

12oz bottle (thanks to Ty5592) poured a clear amber color with no head. Aromas of mostly sweet caramel malt. The taste didn’t have much of a hop flavor, but a nice malt taste.

on tap at new place, "The Comet" on Conn Ave just up the street from the infamous Chevy Chase Wine and Liquor. this will be on tap for some time there (not that there is much of a tap selection but its all good and will be rotating basis with quick turnover). Anyhow, this beer is as close to the color of carrots under glass as any beer I’ve ever seen. a considerable weak-frothy white head that leaves some specks and rings of lacing. smells of sweet and doughy malts as well as some hops. not as strong an aroma as I would have hoped for. tastes of sweet malts and bread as expected from the aroma but finishes more bitter with lots of different kinds of hops, definetely grassy, caramel, fruit/citrus and nuts. quite complex combination of flavors. this beer falls short in some categories but certainly not in taste. worth a try.

Bottle. Caramel and sweet fruity malt scent, slightly flowery. Amber pour with a foamy tan head. Tastes as above, and the light caramel/toast sweetness is very nice, though the flavor isn’t very robust. Watery thin body. Clean and fresh. Decent-to-good Amber. Best of the seven Dominion brews samples this night (NY Eve ‘06).