3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20 FoolishMortal (973) - San Diego, California, USA - MAY 17, 2005
Thanks to SNOB for the bottle. Transparent yellow gold color. Citrusy Cascade-type aroma, some malt undertones. Slightly sweet nose, followed by the dominant flavor character of citrusy, slightly pine resinous Cascade hops. Malty flavors come through more as it warms. Residual sweetness with a tinge of bitterness in the finish.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20 mdi (573) - Nebraska, USA - MAY 14, 2005
22oz, brewers reserve 2004, bought at a discount...so it isn’t the freshest...huge foaming head, tough to control...lots of carbonation and thick lace, slightly hazy beer. It doesn’t seem right to me, the aroma is medicinal, phenolic, and hoppy...maybe that comment down the screen about cilantro is right...just odd...after that, nothing much happens with the beer...there just isn’t much flavor to it, save from something medicinal hops, bitterness doesn’t even stand out, nothing really does. that’s too bad.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20 HoppedHead (106) - seattle, Washington, USA - APR 21, 2005
pours nicely w/ decent head, deep golden in color, citrusy slightly herbal aroma, light mouthfell, slight maltiness as the beer warms, flavor dominated by cacade hops, citrus, somewhat dry lingering finish. overall enjoyable...
2.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20 DavidP (1745) - Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA - DEC 31, 2004
’04 bottle. Cloudy amber liquid, voluminous white head. Herbal sroma: cilantro, corn stalk sweetness, and light grapefruit. Hardly any malt sweetness in the aroma. The flavor is all relatively weak hops with some weak pale malt thrown in. Couldn’t understand what this beer was trying to do. Light and uninteresting.
2.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20 MIBRomeo (2105) - Wisconsin, USA - DEC 31, 2004
Ap: extremely bubbly on open and pour… very thick foamy white head that disapted very slowly w/ lacing down the glass sides. Poured a light golden color a little cloudy
Ar: grapefruit and northwestern hops very crisp a touch of grass in the scent
Pa: good carbonation a bit dry on the tongue nice full body
Flvr: a bit dry heavy bitter hoppy flavor no malts fairly simple
Ovrl: a very fresh clean taste, great smell, but the taste was defintally lacking, nothing except hops and not really a powerful hops, I think I’ve had farts more complex than this beer. thanks to Dave.
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20 1FastSTi (2992) - Glendale, Wisconsin, USA - DEC 31, 2004
Had a nice full lacy head. Nice copper/gold color. Bubbled like champagne. A bit cloudy. Smelled like strong grapefruit with nothing else. Palate... eh. Flavor was of grassy and grapefruit hops. This beer rates high, but I don’t understand why. It was too plain and boring.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20 GermanBrews76 (670) - Portland, Oregon, USA - DEC 7, 2004
crystal clear golden body. Big carbonation, thin glossy white head. Pale malts, some floral tone, big citrus nose. Dry malt character underlies a bitter, resinous, grassy fresh hop profile. dark roastiness comes through the citrucy bitter hops
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20 motelpogo (4543) - Plzen, CZECH REPUBLIC - NOV 20, 2004
on tap at the pilsner room in portland. it can be a bit hard to find things to say about standard apa’s like this one. anyways, pine and lychee aroma, dark golden appearance, pretty sweet, grapefruit lemonade, plenty of bitterness, perfectly good
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