2.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 8/20
12oz can-pours a white head and yellow color. Aroma is corn/sweet-grain/light malt. Taste is corn/sweet-grain/light malt, secondary spice (hallertau) hops bitter. Doesn’t work.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Pours yellow and fizzy. Smells and tastes like apples and sweet malt. Not bad for what it is.
1.1 AROMA 2/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 2/10 PALATE 1/5 OVERALL 4/20
Can.
Head is initially average sized, fizzy/frothy, white, mostly diminishing.
Body is clear light yellow.
Aroma is lightly malty (grain, husks), with light notes of DMS and metal.
Flavor is lightly to moderately sweet, lightly acidic, lightly bitter.
Finish is lightly sweet, lightly acidic, lightly to moderately bitter, husky, unclean.
Light body, watery texture, fizzy carbonation.
I bought this because the can said it was "XX Pure". If there’s one thing I look for in beer, it’s hardcore pureness. Who has time for softcore, it’s 2011 now. This sharpened me up for a bit of the ultraviolent and the old in-out, in-out. Well, it probably would have if I had been able to stomach more than a few sips. It’s XX Pure Swill, baby.
2.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
12 ounce bottle from Whole Foods Market in Cary, NC. Pours a pale gold color with a medium head. Fair head retention and lacing. Aroma of caramel, corn and light grass. Taste is grassy with grain and corn. Watery, thin bodied.
2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
Bottle. Pretty much what you’d expect ... straight up American lager. Pale golden, active. Crisp, quite clean. Well balanced. Finish is a snappy malt. Nothing to complain about here. (#4255, 9/13/2011)
2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
Can left by Leighton at Max and Jess’s place back at Max and Jess’s housewarming way back in May or June. Seems it was time for us all to join the Club. Pours a clear gold with a thin white head. Grain and cabbage, toasted grain. Toast, sweet and grainy. Really not much going on, but this was nowhere near as bad as we were all anticipating. Not to say that it was good, just it could have been worse.
2.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
Can graciously shared by Maxxdaddy after a solid year of aging. How he resisted opening this whale for so long, we may never know. Pours rustic gold with a cap of white foam. Fresh harvested grains, husked corn, and sweet malts. You can find me in the Club.
4.9 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 20/20
The Utica Club has a special membership base. If you are a member, then I don’t need to say anymore. For those who aren’t, read on.
UC is a tasty brew. A light lager with a decent head and a flavor best described as...deece.
As some other raters have written, The UC hearkens back to a bygone era, the era of our fathers and their fathers. A true poet put it thusly, "a Saturday afternoon lawn-mowing beer." Beautiful.
But because it will be a while before my generation reaches our Salad Years, my friends and I simply slam the Golden Nectar any chance we get. It’s our way of connecting to the past and preparing for the future.
Drink up. Join the Club.
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