4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
12oz bottle poured into a snifter at 40°. Color is a deep ruby with good carbonation and a thick light brown head. Aroma of dried fruit and hops. It has a medium body that gives a smooth mouth feel. Flavor comes in with caramel, roasted malt and floral hops, then the yeast gives a nice fruit taste before a nice bitterness. After taste comes off clean and the bitterness sharpens. Overall this is a great brew, bold and balanced.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
UPDATED: JAN 13, 2012 A - Pours a reddish copper with minimal lacy head.
S - Aromas of subtle sweet malts, and spicy floral hops pervade . Light odor of celery. Quite hoppy nose with some piney citrus notes.
M - High carbonation and medium body.
T - Comes in with with dark toasted malts and carmel, and ends in a solid spicy citrus and piney hops. Not too complex. Lightly metallic undertones.
O - Pretty good strong red with a little bite.
7+
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
12oz bottle in a snifter. Pours copper with a lacy, cream-colored head. Aroma of toasted and caramel malts with hints of toffee and some floral/citrusy hops. Flavor the same. Could be thicker, but a decent beer.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle. Dark red, no head suspended floaties. Sweet malty aroma, smooth and thick, sweet but ot too much. Heavy beer. Would have again. .
3.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle from Half Time. I’m in CA. MRB is in CA. So to get this it has to go to the East Coast and back to the West Coast! Life is so strange. It pours a lightly hazy ruddy color. Smells like celery and cooked malt. ?? Full bodied. Frothy carb. Flavor is like lots of roasted malt - smooth roast - and so much hop bitter it’s not to be believed. Hop is likely resin/floral. The malt roast is just that. This is pretty extravagant stuff.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
A deep red color with a light brown head. Cool bottle label.. Very malty backbone. Some hops. Pretty delicious.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 15/20
Turbid reddish copper color, thin head. Smells more like a barley wine with sweet thick toffee, the piney hop aroma follows. Thick and rich and mouthfilling flavors, a little too sweet for my taste. Some nice "old ale" notes of burnt sugar and dark fruit. Dry, bitter hops on the finish. This one would age well.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle. Clear dark amber color/ ivory head. Floral, pine toffee, caramel aromas. Medium body. Nice malty caramel, toffee flavors with floral, pine sap--good hoppy red ale
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
In short: A weird herbaceous, hoppy and caramelized copper ale. Meh.
How: Tap at Ginger Man, NYC
The look: Almost clear copper body topped body topped by a medium beige head with medium retention
In long: Nose of toasted bread and some caramel. Taste is dry tree bark, vegetables, spicy leafy hops, herbaceous plants, chewing on a cattail. All that wrapped in caramel. Strange and also very astringent. This is a weird beer, I hope there was something wrong with that keg. But I didn’t say that Mad River is a bad brewery, please don’t put words (or Mad River beer) in my mouth.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
draft at falling .rock. Full bodied, slightly syrupy feel. Overall reminds me of their Jamaica ale, but alot bigger. Aroma of caramel, cinnamon. Flavor is thick molasses, resiny, spicy hops; a subtle cajun spice, sugercane. Overall good and smooth, doesn’t especially stand out for me though. Still, I would recommend it.
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