3.2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Of taps at the brewery. Aroma of caramelized malts with a bit of roast.
Clear amber brown with small white head. Flavor is nice balance of roast, some fruitiness, carmelized malts.
Bittering is enough to balance the malts but there is little hop flavor. Medium body with fruity dry finish with just a touch of residual bitterness. Solid brown ale and very popular in the area.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
12-oz. Thanks, Skoi! Light brown, headless. Brown sugar nose. Medium carb. Brown sugar, biscuit on the mid-palate. Clean and tidy, rather overly conventional brown ale.
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Had on tap at The Fact Canary. Poured a clear mahogany with a some highlights and a fizzy white head. Aroma of buttery caramel and some toffee. Flavor is dry with some light notes of grassy hops, a bit of toffee, some slight return of the caramel but not much. Came off as somewhat bland without a lot of discernible flavor. While I could not detect outright flaws, just was not interesting enough to warrant a revisit.
3 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Bomber courtesy of Mike Miller. Just chocolate/coffee aroma with just a hint of cinammon. Pours a dark brown with small amount of head and carbonation. Very sweet malt nut taste with some roasted coffee hints to back things up.
3.1 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Draft. Light brown body with a slightly off-white head. Nose is mostly sweet malt, a bit of wood and nuts as well. Body is sweet malt, nuts, roasted malt and what I thought may have been a single hop on the finish. One of the more solid brews from Legend I have had. I still feel that they are pretty inconsistent overall or maybe I just always get old bottles.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
UPDATED: FEB 28, 2010 650ml bottle. Thick and rich brown color. Nice creamy head. Tangy and fruity flavors that I’m assuming come from the Legend yeast work much better in this beer than in the porter. This beer is full bodied, rich, and still remains highly drinkable. Great session brown ale.
re-rate 2/10...looks completely filtered out, thin and a very enjoyable, easy mouthfeel. Clean, thankfully lacks the sticky mouthfeel due to the over-use of specialty malts a lot of brown ales suffer from. Still a great session BA,
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Great local brew, it is very good when paired with a traditional pub meal (ie nachos or cheese fries). I love drinking Virginia beers.
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle smuggled back from christmas break. Pours a reddish brown color with a decent off white head. Getting a heavy yeast and caramel aroma. The taste at first is a bitter experience giving way to a smoother malt flavor. Medium body and quick finish. Recently had the brooklyn brown and enjoyed that one significantly over this.
|
