 pint_size (1001), Austin, Texas, USA
Jul 12, 2008 6-25-08 bottle shared with lb4lb thanks to jwale73
Clear yellow orange. Smell is doughy with a little hop bite in there. Flavor is strange! Tart sweet and overly carbonated. Just too much of all of it and way too carbonated.
lb4lb (1281), Austin, Texas, USA
Jun 30, 2008 Bottle courtesy of jwale73. Thanks!
Pours clear golden with a fizzy white head. Smell is dull, old and not very fresh hops. Beginning of a band-aid unpleasantness. Taste is boring, bland lightly bittered hoppiness. Overcarbonated and perhaps the beginning of an infection. I hear McNeill’s has lots of bottling issues, and this must be one example.
Bungalo22 (225), Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
May 19, 2008 Had at the brew pub off tap. This was one of the more complex Ales I have had. I was surprised to read some of the reviews being so harsh on it. It was foamy and froathy with a nice head. The aroma was of fruits, carmel and hops. It was slightly bitter but went down so smooth. One of my favorites I had from them on that day. A real winner in my book.
dmac (802), Toms River, New Jersey, USA
Mar 18, 2008 22 oz bomber from Beertruth, thanks Adam. Pours a clear orange with a huge foamy white head that settles slowly and leaves tons of legs and a nice creamy pool in the middle of my beer. Slightly sweet aroma with notes of tropical fruit, grains, caramel and toffee. Palate is thin to medium bodied with a nice touch of carbonation. Flavor starts off with lots of fruit, towards the middle cereal grains make an apperance and finsihes with slight bitterness. Although smooth and refreshing this beer is just a little to fruity, much like listening to Heavy D.
JoeMcPhee (3643), Jackson Heights, New York, USA
Feb 20, 2008 22 oz bomber from the brewery. Light amber beer. Aroma is lightly orangey and peachy with a strong house yeast sweet estery character. Lightly dusty and orangey with a touch of phenolic character. Peach and orange flavour with a decent balance of fruity grapefruity hops and pale malt. The dustiness is fairly distracting and doesn’t really work in this pale ale. The house character of this yeast just comes across as dirty and it doesn’t really work for me. It’s better obscured in some beers than others, but in this it’s got nowhere to hide.
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