2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
I love the name. Golden amber pour with frothy white head. Sugary nose -- fruit, cotton candy, honey, yeasty esters, quickbreads. Mildly sweet fruity and grainy taste with very little bitterness, despite a bit of sticky resin in the aftertaste. When playing soccer we call this a "good idea," immediately after an example of poor execution. Too sweet to be very drinkable.
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Pours dark clear amber with a white head. Aroma is citrus, grass and bread. Taste is malty sweet. Light and easy to drink. Would be enjoyable on a nice spring day.
2.9 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
DRAFT at Sugar Maple....pours a nice orange with thin head...dissipates rapidly...mild, mild, mild....not bad but not a ’return trip’ beer....very mild caramel taste; light sweet taste...
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
This beer is really pretty decent, but still nothing much to it. I like some more complexity.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle pours orange-gold with an off-white head. Aroma shows caramel, florals, and light earth. Flavor shows the same with some underlying citrus. Overall it’s not spectacular, but definately a well crafted, uncomplicated, easy drinker.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
12oz bottle. Despite having had this numerous times previously, I have yet to it. Here goes..Filtered orange-tan. Thin, oily white head. Pleasant malt aroma, some earthy hops and caramel. Kind of an odd Sconnie version of an English Ale. Fruity yeast tones, medium body, some butterscotch. Not really true to style in my opinion, but fairly drinkable. Decent balance, but the Ringwood (?) is a little overstated.
2.5 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
The beer wasn’t bad but it wasnt up to par with the other beers that i have had of theirs. I would drink it again but it just wasn’t special.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle courtesy of BeerFMAndy. Served in a Hill Farmstead wine glass.
Pours a light copper-orange color with a single-finger head and some good lacing as it goes down. Cap throughout. The nose brings some very light floral hops and then hits with a good amount of bready malt. Neither hop nor malt forward; pretty good balance here. The flavor offers the same variables and ration--basically even amounts of floral and earthy hops aside some bready malt. Not much sweetness, more toward bread. Light body with lower levels of carbonation and a mild bitterness in the finish. Pretty good take on the style. I particularly like that it’s not loaded with diacetyl.
Serving type: bottle
Reviewed on: 05-18-2011
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Deep bronze in color. Malty, light earthy hops, sweet aroma. Flavor is much the same and just doesn’t seem inspired. Medium bodied. Not bad, but infinitely boring.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
12 oz bottle from Casanova Liquors (Hudson, WI). Pours a dulled golden hue, maybe a touch of darkness, well hazed, with a frothy moderate white head, dies to a film, laces ok. a thicker ring clinger. Aromas are fairly clean, touches of grass and florals mix with pale malts, light cereal grains, touches of bread. A mellow light clean sweetness and faint hopping. Initial is lighter bodied, some grass and florals up front provide a light bitter hopping that grows a bit on the palate, faint touches of lemon moving into cereal grains, bread, and pale malts. Some crackers, some prickly carbonation makes it a bit lighter on the palate, with some more grassy hopping, earthy. End is crisp and clean, grassy hopping is decent, a touch dry with mellow crisp cereal, bread. Fruitiness is minimal, a bit forgetful and lacks complexity, but it is drinkable. Forgetable.
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