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RATINGS: 1613   WEIGHTED AVG: 3.05   EST. CALORIES: 153   ABV: 5.1%
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A Beer Cloaked in Secrecy An ale whose mysterious and unusual palate will swirl across your tongue and ask more questions than it answers. A beer brewed clandestinely and given a name whose meaning is never revealed. Why #9? Why, indeed. A sort of dry, crisp, fruity, refreshing, not-quite pale ale. #9 is really impossible to describe because there’s never been anything else quite like it. Fermented with our 150 year old strain of top-fermenting English yeast.


3.1
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 12/20
SlovakSniper (1149) - Candiac, Quebec, CANADA - NOV 7, 2011
(12 oz, Richford, VT) Un mince col de mousse flotte sur un liquide blond foncé. Le nez est malté et touché par un amalgame de fruits rouges. Les saveurs sont peu éloignées des arômes. Le côté fruité se frotte à des céréales douces et timides. Aucune flaveur provenant des houblons. La bouche est moyenne, le pétillement correct et la texture plus ou moins huileuse. La finale est complètement maltée.

3.2
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 11/20
mnurda (752) - Winnipeg, Manitoba, CANADA - NOV 6, 2011
On tap at grand Cyprus in Orlando Nicely carbonated. Sweet tasting. Faint malt and hop flavours

3.2
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 13/20
rondphoto (463) - Lakeside Park, Kentucky, USA - OCT 29, 2011
Slightly hazy honey color with a nice head and lace. Taste is of yeasty malt and grass, with a subtle overtone of apricot. This is balanced with a hoppiness that asserts itself without overpowering the beer. A good summer quencher.

3.7
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 16/20
dylandownsouth (12) - - OCT 27, 2011
On draft at local bar. Great fruity apricot nose. Nice color and carbonation, slight hazy appearance. Beautiful head. I really love the flavor in this beer, the apricot/peach fruitiness goes really well with the grainy malt taste. Hopped just enough to let you know its there.

1.8
   AROMA 3/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 3/10   PALATE 1/5   OVERALL 8/20
rob6239 (159) - Ontario, CANADA - OCT 24, 2011
From bottle. Pours light amber with slight foamy white head. Aroma of fruit beer. Tastes bitter, not like pale ale but with definite sour fruit taste.

3.1
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 13/20
crajun (389) - , Texas, USA - OCT 23, 2011
liked this; very smooth drinking beer. slight fruit taste with nice balance of malts fruits hops. good aftertaste that goes down easy

3.5
   AROMA 8/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 14/20
Chudwick (345) - Taylor Mill (KY), FRANCE - OCT 14, 2011
Bottle in a pint glass - pours hazy orange with light white head and no lacing. Nose is apricot and caramel malts. Aroma is caramel malts with a nutty note. Don’t understand how this is fruit beer. Aftertaste is nut. Flat but light effervescence to sight. Good random pick. Taste is sweet. Dry finish and oily.

2.4
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 2/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 9/20
SDalkoholic (1490) - Chula Vista, California, USA - OCT 13, 2011
Bottle from Hollywood liquor: Damn I feel ripped off after paying $5 for a pint of this at Hamilton’s Tavern when a 22 oz is selling for $3.69 at the majority of liquor stores that have been stocking this beer. My rating was too vague when I had this on tap so I’m rewriting my rating from the bottle. Poured a sparkling golden blonde color with a soft pillow of foam for a head. Aroma is a funk smell of artificial fruit flavor and the smell of a sugary bowl of cereal, and I might add that it smells like a fruit beer fermenting. The flavor is initially tart while allowing some fruity flavors come through such as green grape and artificial strawberry or blueberry. This is pretty horrible stuff in my opinion and I can’t believe that this is what their marketing department came up with to distribute to California. Was this some cruel joke?


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