3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Tap @ The Front Door: Pours a copper golden color with a nice sticky head and nice lacing. The nose is fresh with some piney resinous hop notes and a lupulin dust like cascades. A pale malt and chewy vine note in the flavor. Bitter tail with a hoppy balanced wet hop notes with the dry. Not bad, hoppy but a little sticky and resinous.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Draft @ Beveridge Place Pub, Seattle, WA. Pours a slightly hazy golden color with a small longlasting white head. Has a fruity fresh hoppy grassy aroma. Dry fresh hoppy bitter grassy flavor. Has a dry hoppy bitter grassy grapefruit finish.
4 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Pint at brewery. I have been waiting for this one and it did not disappoint at all. Hazed orange, creamy white head. Aroma of orange, floral hops, grass. Taste is oh so good, lost of crisp bright citrus, floral, grass, tangerine, grapefruit, pine, herb all on top of a juicy malt body. Great stuff.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Pours a nice deep orangish amber. Aromas of grapefruit, roast malts, and a hint of fruit. Flavor is nice and hoppy with a spicy finish.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
On Tap at Kahootz Ale House. Clear light copper wiu a thin White head. Aroma of light piney citrus rinds. Flavor was more pronounced pine and a quite grassy note to it. Just ok
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Tap @ Kahootz: Clear copper color with a white head and runny lacing. Aroma of hay, junipers and alcohol. Flavors of pine needles and grapefruit rind. A SOLID pale ale. In my top 5 for this style.
4.8 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 19/20
On tap at the 09 Fresh Hop Ale festival.
This was my first stop at the festival since Laughing dog had won 2 years in a row. It was instantly apparent that they were on track to win again. The beer was great. Huge nose, and rich hop resins. Floral but not gardeny. Big citrus. Actually balanced which was surprising concidering how big the hops were. Great beer. Go hop head Fred!
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Tap @ Bittercreek - Pours translucent copper with a small beige head...aroma is grassy and floral, malt and a bit of dirt...flavour is similar, earthy hops, dry malt..nice lingering bitterness...
4.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
On Tap at the Fresh hop ale festival I see why it won First place
Nice Green Grassy hop aroma with a very clean finish just what a Fresh hop ale should be
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Aroma of fresh leafy hops. Also diacetyl and some light pale malts. Pours a golden tone with a nice lasting fluffy head. Fresh earthy hops initially followed by some bready/biscuity malts. Some butter creeps through and detracts from the pleasantly fresh hops. Crisp fresh finish. Medium carbonation, smooth, and fresh. But the butter... oh well.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Draft at Malt & Vine. Pours a slightly hazy medium copper. Thin but dense creamy tan head. Nice earthy, leafy hop nose, unfortunately dominated by a heap of movie popcorn butter...huge diacetyl bomb. Gorgeous creamy medium body with nice crisp and refreshing carb. Mid-palate comes up with some biscuit and maybe crackers, then a nice burst of earthy/dry-leaf-y hop presence, all washed over by acrid stale fake butter. The finish should be all tidy and resiny with a nice cling, you can tell, but there’s so much diacetyl it gets kinda vomitous. What a shame--this one showed huge promise.
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