3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Tap. Pours clear orange with an average, fizzy white head, low retention with light lacing. Aroma is heavy malt (bread, caramel, toasted), heavy hops (earthy, herbal, spicy), and light esters (apple/pear) with notes of peach. Flavor is heavy malt (bread, cookie, caramel, toasted), heavy hops (earthy, herbal, grassy, pine), and average esters (apple/pear) with notes of peach. Medium body and carbonation, low warmth and creaminess with a dry and biting finish.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Draft at brewpub. Pours light orange. Thinnest looking IPA I’ve seen so far. Not much on the nose. Taste is kind of thin. You have to really look for the hop. It’s just boring.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle from Sam’s. Light hazy golden, small white lace. Nose is grainy, bready, light citrus and pine. Flavor is similar, more grainy than hoppy. Drinakble, but not very good.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
This bottle has a unicorn on it...yeah, that should have been a warning right there. It kind of tastes like what I imagine unicorn pee filtered through hay might taste like. All in all not the worst beer I have had...but certainly not one I’ll be keeping in my stable
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Bottle. Cloudy golden yellow color, massive off white head. Aroma of malt and straw. Taste is hay and lemon rind, lager-like finish.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
12oz bottle poured into a pint glass.
Appearance is a crystal clear light gold with a fairly thick one finger head. Pretty good head retention and lacing.
Not much of a smell with this one. Caramel malt is definitely present along with a slight citrus hop character reminiscent of apricot and orange.
The flavors are all a bit odd. Fairly strong caramel malt up front along with some citrusy hop notes but then everything just disappears. All that is left is a sharp bitterness finishing with a strong alcohol note but no other flavors. Mouthfeel is decent, though.
Overall I think this could be a pretty good beer with some tweaking. It is just too unbalanced now to be a pleasurable drinking experience.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask (gravity dispense) at Great British Beer Festival, day 4 on 5 August 2011 as Legend Golden IPA. Flowery aroma with lots of hop presence. Quite dry on the palate. Whilst the nose is appealing, it doesn’t quite carry through as impressively onto the palate. Fairly bitter, maybe a little astringent on the palate but lacks the vibrancy of the aroma. Firm, clean mouthfeel. Good but doesn’t quite hit the high spots.
2.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Draught from a shaker. Light golden color...very tepid beer. Aroma is generic sweetness, and the taste is a very bland. A bit of sweet malts, pretty much nonexistant hop presence, and very mild carbonation. Also has some metallic notes. Overall seems like an unfinished beer...I would pass on this one.
2.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
It poured a golden color with a small white head. The aroma was of sweet popcorn and caramel malts. The taste was buttery, caramel, and toffee, with some lingering bitterness. An ok IPA.
2.9 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Pours a pure golden with swaths of white sticky lacing. Aroma is fruit forward displaying grapefruit, orange, and some light berry. A nice biscuity backbone holds this brew together. It ends with a mild earthy hop finish, and a light malt sweetness that lingers on the tongue.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
this beer has a hint of the IPA style but it’s not as strong as the others. I really think that its a good beer.
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