3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle sample at a tasting at Ariel’s place. Thanks DSG. pours an hazy orange to brown with a medium head, aroma of alcohol, glue, honey, marmalade, orange, flavor of hops, tangerine, cumquet, pretty sweet, medium bodied
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
roasty, spruce, leaves, earthy, amber, hazy, white foam, minimal head, medium bitterness, lightly bitter,
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
On cask at rustico Akexandria VA. Pours a hazy brownish amber with an off white head. Marina of orange and pine. Flavors of pine tar and hints of citrus. Mildly bitter finish.
3.5 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Draft. Clear deep amber color, medium white head. Aroma of flowers, citrus. Taste is caramel, bitter lemon, pine resin. Strong stuff.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
(bottle) dark copper with small tan head. Aroma of pine resin. Flavor was sweet caramel malt, pine resiny finish.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Uploading old ratings that were missing comments. Competent IPA if not memorable. Balanced and drinkable.
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3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
On tap 4 oz. sample at Pizza Paradiso in Alexandria, VA.
Clear, red-amber dark copper with large off-white head and very good lacing.
Aroma of grapefruit, caramel, tropical fruit and sweet candied fruit.
Taste of caramel, tropical fruit, grapefruit and cane sugar.
Full/medium body and low carbonation.
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4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Pours pale red/marble brown with a huge head that became a problem while pouring. I had to work around it. The aroma has a lot of malt and hops, and a background quality that reminded me a little bit of the smell of crayons, and I don’t mean that as a bad thing at all. The flavor is so smoothly malty that this is, to me, kinda like a heavily hopped red ale. The malt is just very rich, and there are notes of ginger and a little rye, but the big, bitter grapefruit citrus at the end just screams IPA. I liked this beer a lot.
3.5 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Pours a dark orange with a tight medium head. Aromas of pine and citrus some sweet malts. Flavor is started with some pine and grapefruit, immediately turns caramel sweetness. Good beer for a barley wine but too malty and sweet for a iipa.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle in NYC. Pours rich Mber with a soft, frothy head. Rich, sugary malt aroma, some juicy pine. Big sweet flavor, lots of sugary citrus, grapefruit, bread, brown sugar, caramel, pine. Full bodied with fine carbonation. Warm, resinous finish, lots of sticky berries, ripe melon, papaya and grapefruit. Kind of hot, boozy. More like a barley wine if you ask me.
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