4.7 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
A great ale, light and hoppy with a mellow tasty ryle grain flavor. Extremely well balanced
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
On tap at Iron Springs brewpub during SF Beer Week, what a week! It pours a nice clear gold with lasting off white head. The modest aroma offers up spicy hop notes that blend nicely into spicy rye like notes. The taste has some sugary sweet malts running into a thicket of spicy hops and a bit of maybe pine hops before rye like spiciness joins in and takes this into the finish. This is a nice full flavored spicy, like near cedar or oak spiciness, brew.
3.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Really tastes like a lighter version of their Crippler but with a light toasted rye flavor.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
On tap at the brewpub. Clear golden orange with a small off-white head, fair retention. Spicy rye, clover honey, and lightly floral nose. Flavor has a slightly metallic lagerlike note, but otherwise the same. Finished semi-dry, bitterness at a 3. Moderate prickly carbonation with a light body. Not bad.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Color is a rich yellow with a small head. Aroma is dry grainy malt and bready yeast. Flavor is bitter sweet. In fact, the sweetness ruins it. Crisp finish. This is a decent beer, but nothing remarkable.
3.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Tap at Monk’s Kettle in San Francisco. Hazy apricot amber color with a decent off-white head. Aromas of pale malt and citrus. Medium body with creamy carbonation. Flavor is pale malt with citrus hop. Finish is dry and tongue tingling. Decent drink.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Draft. Rich amber beer with a low off-white head. Slightly spicey aroma with some earthy malts. Earthy, caramel flavor with some smooth spiciness. Easy to drink.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Draft @ the brewpub. Pours a clear yellow color with a small white head. Has a malty hoppy caramel aroma with some hints of rye. Sweetish malty hoppy caramel flavor with some hints of citrus. Has a sweetish malty hoppy finish.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Tried this on tap at Beer Lands inside the Outside Lands Music Festival in San Francisco. Rye, bread, spice notes in the aroma. Well balanced malt flavor with a clean hop finish.
---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Date: July 08, 2009
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub
Appearance: clear cole, cremy off white head, drippy lace
Aroma: sweet malt aroma, light floral hops
Flavor: sweet malt flavor, floral hops, light spicy rye, long bitter finish
Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 11/20
Rating: 3/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: *4
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