3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
22 oz. bottle – amber hue –nice off white head, small bubbles lingering – nose hoppy , mint , caramel , malt , gingerbread , and nutty – taste of grapefruit , hopps , citrus , and malts – smooth , gummy but raw palate - aftertaste lemony citrus and hopps gingerbread , and nutty – taste of grapefruit , hopps , citrus , and malts – smooth but raw palate - aftertaste lemony citrus and hopps
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Light wisp of coarse lemony hops. Orange golden-fringed pour. Rim of whitish. Flavor is a light, nice almost raisiny malt character, backed with a heavy hand of hops, in sweet candied orange peel cirtus and lot of both white and ruby red grapefruit character. Some candied ginger and light cherries back this one out of becoming too uninteresting. Another well done, yet not exciting IPA.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
On Tap @ O’Brien’s. Clear copper color with nice off white to tan head. Hop aroma of “smooth” pine and a hint of sweet malt. The taste is even pine bitterness followed by some caramel malts about midway. Then at the finish the hops resurface to leave a lingering taste behind.
3.5 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Draft at O’Brien’s. Very nice aroma coming off this slightly hazy golden pour. Fresh hop green aromas and some vanilla too. Flavors were a bit weaker, and the moutfeel was a bit watery. Altoghether, not so bad.
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
Please Note: I tried this on draft and I believe the keg was infected so I’m probably not rating the beer the brewer intended for me to drink. However, I loved what I had so I still want to rate it under the name on the keg.
Draft. Dark copper/ red color. Sour malty nose with some cherry notes. Sweet and malty with tart apple and cherry flavors. Seems to be infected but the end result is really quite nice! Nothing here resembles an IPA but damn this is good.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Pours an amber with a nice large off-white head. Kind of chunky and soft head with some lacing. Aroma of sweet caramel and hops. Flavors of malt, hops, fruit, and caramel. A standard IPA, but still a very good example.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
22oz bottle poured a clear amber color with a small off white head. Aroma of resinous hops and sweet malt. Taste is big and bitter with a lot of flavor hops that linger into a slightly sweet finish. A decent IPA that is big on everything except the alcohol.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
From a bomber.
Pours a light orange-brown with a long-lived head. The aroma is cookie and c-hops. The flavor follows, never letting anything other than the hops take the center stage, with a touch but never too much sweetness. The mouthfeel comes off as slightly thin, but perhaps this can be forgiven, between the superb drinkability and the smooth bitterness of the long lovely grapefruit peel finish.
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