3.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottle courtesy of Eric at Churchkey, thanks! Hazy golden color, small white edge head. Aroma of subtle pine. Taste is earthy pine.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Extract spruce. Not bad for extract, but nowhere close to a good spruce beer. Still decently drinkable. Faint sprice aroma, stronger flavour. Carbonation still right there.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
12oz bottle in a shaker. Pours amber with an off-white head. Aroma of pale and caramel malts, a little molasses, and hints of spruce. Flavor about the same. Average texture. An interesting beer, but not the best.
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
12oz bottle. Poured a clear golden with a small sized head. Aromas of spruce, some earthiness, and grainy. Tastes of the same with a lighter sweetness.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle from Capones. Pours golden with little head. Honey, sweet malt. Spruce is very faint - not like Yards.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Quite different. Earthy, sweet, leading to a dark finish. There is some sourness leading to a lingering finish.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
12 oz bottle. Pours a golden orange color with a medium sized cream colored head. Aroma of slightly tangy malt, honey, hops and faint spruce notes. Taste of tangy malt, orange citrus hints, honey and faint notes of spruce.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottles from Capone’s and Blue Dog. Pours turbid deep orangy copper with 1-finger off-white head. Nose is caramel and honey malt, sprucy notes, and fruit. Tastes sprucey, piney, with notes of tangerine, black pepper, and caramel malt, Medium palate heft and complexity, and the spruce tips give this one a unique flavor.
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