3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
The beer is dark copper colored and clear with a small tan head. The aroma brings light spruce and pine. A nice sweet, fruity malt scent charcteristic of a red ale. Biscuits and bread tones in the English style. Lawson’s wanted to make an English style red and they succeeded. Exactly what I would expect. Fairly light in body. Light bitterness in the finish with very mild alcohol. A sessionable brew. I am enjoying this.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Thanks, Moll. Nose has bready malt and a bit of spruce. Flavor has bitter spruce and a bit in the flavor. Mild spice. Decent ESB.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
22 oz bottle courtesy of Vthophead. Pours a dark amber which, when held to a light, is actually a dark red. Head is one finger of creamy beige which dissapates leaving specks of foam. Cinnamon and spruce aroma with some pine scent from the spruce. Hint of cinnamon in the flavor with real light spruce. Strong malt profile. Medium bodied palate with a slightly bitter aftertaste.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
12 oz draft at anniversary party. Aroma is very bland with notes of spruce, soap?, grass, and crackers. Taste is lightly sweet and super sprucey. Not really my cup of "beer" here. I was hoping for an accented beer with spruce notes not a spruce drink.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Hoo weeeeeee that’s sprucey. Sample at anniversary party. Some Malta in there but it’s all spruce.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
On draft pour. Almost pitch black with a thin light white head. Well carbonated. Spruce in aroma and flavor. Not over whelming. Nice.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle/22oz - A leftover from last winter. Pours a dark amber in color with a very big foamy off-white head that quickly settled to a thin rim around the top of the beer. Aroma is quite malty with some cinnamon and a hint of the spruce. Flavor is also quite malty with caramel, cinnamon, a piney/sprucy aftertaste that lingers a bit. OK.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bomber from SneezyAchew on BA - thanks! Dark amber, cola pour with massive carb. Lots of cinnamon and spice in the nose, kind of an oily mouthfeel. Nice understated bitter as the base, which emerges after the spice settles in a bit. Okay.
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
lawson’s finest red spruce bitter.... pours darker caramel toffee reddish brown pour with a thin wispy film of white head
aroma: cinammon and caramel malt. spice and ginger take front hold. not too much beyond that.
flavors: cinammon, caramel, and some saaz like bittering grassy hops. semi-lively mouthfeel with a thin to medium body.
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2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Tasted on 1/16/11 from a bomber bottle, Rare Batch # 171, Bottle # 53. Thanks Ryan. Pours super cloudy dark amber with a thick tan head that slowly recedes to an even blanket of lace. The nose is bread and dough maltiness with what I assume to be spruce, smells a lot like hand soap, and a bit of cinnamon spice coming through nicely. The flavor is very malty with the cinnamon peaking through, and the spruce showing a lot like hand soap still. The body is medium with lively carbonation and a long astringent, hand soap, and cinnamon finish.
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