2.1 AROMA 1/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Perhaps just the sampling glasses, but all the Legend beers I’ve tried lack a substantial aroma. This one pours light amber with a tiny wispy white head. Nice mellow carbonation. Flavor is semi sweet caramel malt with a fruity hop character. Balanced but one dimensional.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Hadn’t had a nice refreshing Pale Ale in a while. Light and clean piney hops with a crisp finish.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Ar: Toasty malt with backgroud caramel and citrus, very slight peach and butterscotch.
Ap: Clear gold-amber - small slightly-off-white head with good retention.
T: Substantial orange and grapefruit up front, with a long and firm bitterness that follows to a clean and malty finish.
P: Medium body with medium carbonation, finishes dry.
O: This is really a nice pale ale - assertive and pleasant hop flavor and bitterness, plus some good malt character - beautifully simple.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Pours slightly hazy dark golden with a nice off white head. Aroma is of caramel, fruits and malts. Has a nice hop character with lots of caramel and some grassy, malty flavor.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Pours a clear, dark copper color with golden orange hues and a 1.5 finger frothy white head that has pretty good retention, only slowly fading into a lasting ring. Streaks of soapy lacing left behind.
Slightly earthy aroma with hints of grassy hops and straw balanced by sweet malt and subtle light fruit notes. Slightly toasty with hints of caramel and biscuit.
Medium bodied with some bitter earthy hops up front that linger over a sweet malt backbone into a lingering dry finish. There’s a dry earthy/soil like hop presence with a resinous pine character. This is countered by the sweeter malt notes with hints of caramel and biscuit. I’m picking up some faint apricot sweetness toward the end.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Copper coloured. Thick beige head. Sourness and funky aroma. Some good hops on end and some quite bitter chocolate malt.
2.3 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
very simlar to Pilsner, just a little less overall, less hops and thinner.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Translucent orange/amber with a bit of white head. What head it has sticks around and there’s some slight lacing.
Aroma is a bit of pine hops and sweet malts but also an odd soapy scent.
Taste is the best part. Nice pine and citrus hops that take turns leading. Solid sweet malts followed by dry malts. Solid APA in that the hops make themselves known but they don’t overwhelm. The malts have a little spice and the hops bring that out.
This is a great summer afternoon on the lawn beer. For the type of day where you just want to be outside and you don’t want to pay too much attention to the beer. Nice session APA.
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