 lb4lb (2011), Austin, Texas, USA
| 3.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 14/20 |
Mar 9, 2009 Bottle in trade from abents. Pours a nice hazy burnt orange color with a short lived whitish head. Smell is earthy hops with a hint of fruit and some honey. Taste is fruity with notes of apricot and honey like malt. Very nicely balanced with a nice pleasant, refreshing bitterness and a good malt base. Medium to full body with crisp carbonation. Very enjoyable pale ale.
curly (580), Nashville, Tennessee, USA
| 1.8 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 4/10 | 2/5 | 3/10 | 2/5 | 7/20 |
Mar 2, 2009 Butter’s 4th cellar reduction. Pours clear orange with a quickly disappearing white head. This bottle has a skunky citrus aroma which I don’t know if it is right. Earthy and unnaturally bitter taste.
MmmcKay (276), Brentwood, Tennessee, USA
| 2.7 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 4/10 | 3/5 | 5/10 | 3/5 | 12/20 |
Mar 1, 2009 Creamy yeasty nose. Orange gold in opaque appearance. This beer needs to breathe. A little time goes on long way on this one. Good to very good
Barrios (858), Nashville, Tennessee, USA
| 3.3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 12/20 |
Mar 1, 2009 12 oz bottle at Butters’ 4th Cellar Reduction. Pours an off-white head that laces with a clover honey color body. Smells of floral hops. Tastes like floral hops with a somewhat skunky pine bitter finish.
Butters (1646), Virginia, USA
| 2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 4/10 | 3/5 | 4/10 | 3/5 | 6/20 |
Mar 1, 2009 200th rating for this beer! Bottle at the Fourth Butters’ Cellar Clearance Event. Clear amber with small ring of white head. Nose is skunked with a weird earthy funk. Flavor is a bitter floral hop with something underlying. Way unbalanced. Didn’t care for it.
FlssmrBrewAlum (1116), Lisle, Illinois, USA
| 3.3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 13/20 |
Feb 16, 2009 12 oz bottle served at the miller time pub (milwaukee, wi). Pours a hazed golden amber with some fiery orange notes and decent white head that settles to a small level. Aromas are heavily lemon citrus hoppiness, pale malts, and a light grassy element makes this smell like an APA should. Initial is weaker in flavor than expected: pale malts, largely lemony citrus, grass, and some mellow sweetness. Finishes with light bitterness and a nice subtle citrusy lemon that is refreshing. A good APA that is a nice sessioner, but a bit one dimensional (as by-the-book APAs are). Cheers.
mrant (330), New York, USA
| 3.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 4/10 | 5/5 | 5/10 | 5/5 | 12/20 |
Feb 3, 2009 Smells of bitter hops and plain malts. Slight odd scent to it, can’t really describe it. Smells like their organic esb tastes. Taste is nicely balanced malts and hops. Nothing special, but one of the better offerings from their mixed pack.
ChainGangGuy (2555), Kennesaw, Georgia, USA
| 3.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 3/5 | 6/10 | 4/5 | 12/20 |
Feb 2, 2009 12 oz. bottle served up at Taco Mac in Kennesaw, Georgia. Bottled during the fourth week of August. That’s nice to know.
Appearance: Pours a mostly clear, deep copper body with a small, very short-lived, white head.
Smell: Grainy-scented pale malt aroma with a light touch of caramel and faint kiss of lemony citrus.
Taste: Pale malts with some husky, grainy astringency and a light caramel sweetness. Very minor fruitiness. Earthy, lightly citrusy hops with a medium amount of bitterness. Dry, bitter, and more graininess in the crisp finish.
Mouthfeel: Just barely hitting medium-bodied. Medium, fine carbonation.
Drinkability: Pass. The excessive grainy astringency made for an altogether lackluster (but not lacking in graininess) pale ale.
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