3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
12 oz bottle at Caliente in Richmond. Nice reddish color. Strong hop presence and a crisp and spicy rye finish.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Craft Brewers Conference 2012
Reddish amber in color, clear with a thin head. Nice nose of hops and sweet malts. Lots of floral bitterness and a good malt flavor with lots of rye. This is a tasty brew.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle. Pours amber/red with small off white head. Aroma has orange and grapefruit and something more I can’t put my finger on, probably the rye, like some kind of spiced bread. Taste has blood orange, more of the spiced bread kind of flavour, slightly bubblegummy. Nice body with a balanced bitterness. Very interesting, totally different and delicious
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle @ Hamilton’s, San Diego. Red amber pour. Orange/grapefruit, pine, molasses, berries, rye. Medium-bodied, sweet, bitter.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Amber pour with foamy white head. Nice piney and roasted grain aroma. Spicy grain and hops taste. Pine and bready malt. Really nice and totally sessionable.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Red indeed. Aroma is floral and piney. Lots of hop bitterness with a touch of fruity sweetness.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle shared at a tasting at Dagan’s place. Pours brown to orange with a medium head, aroma of molasses, marmalade, orange and caramel. Flavor is slightly bitter-sour with some lemon, grapefruit, bread, fresh with medium bodied.
2.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
very nice aroma, amber in colorwith a nice head. , good hop flavors and a little bit spicy
3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
One of the better IPAs I’ve had. Pours with a deep rust color that lets light through, and a pretty substantial head. Lots of hops up front in the aroma, and of course like any IPA there are a lot of hops in the flavor. But the finish is clean, no pronounced, hoppy, twangy aftertaste. A strong tone of ruby red grapefruit juice throughout. This won’t replace Sierra Nevada’s Ruthless Rye as my favorite IPA, but it’s a good one.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle shared by Sloth. A lovely ruby amber with a big ass nose of full flower hops. Surprisingly drinkable as body is much lighter than initially perceived. Malty with bready hop imbalance that strangely works well. Abrupt finish. Next!
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Draught. Bright red with light head but good lacing. Pine aroma with some malty sweetness and fruit tones. Full bodied and syrupy. Sweet, punctuated by spicy rye and a bit of hop bitterness. Clean and balanced.
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