Dominion Ale

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

Serve in English pint, Shaker

Couleur ambrée, peu de mousse blanche. Aucun dégagement gazeux apparent lors du service. Les arômes, presque dominé par le puissant diacetyl, rappellent le beurre huileux et le butterscotch. En bouche, les parfums floraux arrivent bien mieux à s’exprimer qu’en aromes et reprennent le dessus sur les caractéristiques apportées par le diacetyl. Quelques notes de caramel et de toffee sont aussi présentes. Corps assez mince, texture plutôt aqueuse.

The Lure:
A veil of butter shades the earthy hops and orange-y eyes. A slightly metallic look is able to stare through.

The Festivities:
Diacetyl is thankfully submerged under the earthy hops and caramel, as well as beneath my tolerance threshold. Over here, they would call it a "Rousse", and it would be marketed by average micros to the nearly adventurous masses.

Transcendence:
Yet another university party.

Strong, buttery, oily, diacetyl with some notes of cheese in the aroma. Deep golden-amber with a light cover of white head. Buttery flavour meshes with floral, perfumey, earthy hops and some caramel and toffee notes. Medium body with fair carbonation. Bottled on 2-Dec-04. Trade - Feb. 2005 - Thanks, hopscotch! Sampled with MartinT, Olivier_MTL and Rastacouere.

Very light amber, clear. Small diminishing head. Surprisingly buttery aroma, floral and pear reminiscent, but above all oily and vegetal (almost corny). The understated fruits and very sparing hops don’t contribute much bitterness and the overall light-medium body with higher than average carbonation both betray the lack of richness… Sub-par for Dominion. Thanks Hopscotch!

Light orange amber color. Medium sized slightly foamy head. Hints of caramel and sulfer in the mostly malty aroma. Acrid floral undertones from the aroma carry through to the nose. Mild malt flavors with a lagery crispness accentuated by spicy kent golding notes. Dry finish with a return of sulfer hints.

Orange, amber, bubbly body with an offwhite head. Light malty aroma accompanied by mild hops. Starts with a mild blend of malt and hops including faint caramel. Finishes lightly nutty, mildly tangy and just a touch hoppy.

Had this beer a few times but never rated, here goes. Pretty pale amber with lots of bubbles bursting their way into a thin head that doesn’t last very long. Smell is light with a small amount of lemon and light hops, and delicate kiss of malt. So far, everything about this beer is subdued. This is definitely intended to be an easy drinking bar ale drank in multitude. Taste packs a good amount of flavor, especially at first when the carbonation and lemony hops really zest the tongue. After that more toasted flavors show, along with hay, caramel and yeasty dough. Suitably complex beer for the style. Still, this beer will always remain the lesser-attractive and popular sister of the Dominion Lager, the best of the staple beers from this brewery.

Pretty run of the mill in appearance but has a graham cracker smell coming fromthe glass,I swear.Taste like a graham cracker also.