3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cloudy yellow color, big foamy head. Spicy nose with some bubblegum and wee hints of banana. Flavor is sweet bubblegum mostly. Wheat grain in the finish, and a little spicy. Interesting.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Nice cloudy orange pour with a big fluffy head. Aroma of citrus, clove, banana. Very nice taste of spices with an almost buttery quality. Very smooth. One of the best examples of the style I’ve had.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
22oz bomber. Hazy orange tan color with a fluffy, quickly diminishing head. Sweet minty clove aroma, fresh and nice. Very pleasant on the palate, with some solid lemony-clove taste. Some hop character comes through, giving it a nice balance. Light to medium-bodied, very refreshing with a lemony sweet mild astringency. Better than expected, this is a quality product.
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bomber from Once Upon a Vine, Richmond. Very pale and hazy pour, body looks perilously thin. Soft nose with yeast and banana, but more ripe and less sweet than is sometimes the case. Flavor’s not quite up to snuff, with things getting a bit watery and indistinct. A bit more earthy and organic, and consequently just a bit preferable to other middle of the road wheats. But nothing at all memorable.
3.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
22 oz bottle poured cloudy light straw color. Banana in the aroma. Black pepper in the flavor. Some clove too. Nice lunch beer.
3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
light yellow and minimal head for a weizen. thin mouthfeel. flavor has very little malt character and really is lead by its yeast aspect, which is nice, but can’t make up for a weak tasting weizen. one of the poorer legend beer i have had.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Had on tap at The Trellis, which I am nominating for Williamsburg’s most overrated restaurant. While I am aware that this is not a restaurant rating site, I just had to say it out of frustration from paying $160 for a completely unsatisfactory meal. Poured an effervescent gold with a fizzy white head. Aroma of lemon and some butter toffee. Flavor is light, with some lemony citrus notes and some biscuit dough with a touch of grassy hops, ending with a bit of spiciness. Refreshing if underwhelming, though not nearly as much as my meal.
By the way, if you’re ever in the Williamsburg, VA area, I highly recommend visiting The Fat Canary and completely ignoring The Trellis. The two used to be co-owned by the same man, who later abandoned the Trellis. I’m not sure why, but I’m willing to bet he bothered to taste the flavorless food that sucker tourists were paying $30 a plate for. Plus, The Fact Canary had three different Legend beers on tap, which was nice.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
Pint at the brewery. Slightly cloudy light straw color well carbonated. Fairly clean wheat flavor with clove spice phenolics. Slight cardboard oxidized notes. Overall nice summer sipper.
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