3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
(Draught) Pours a hazy deep amber body with a small off-white head. Aroma of toasted grain, floral, grass, and caramel. Flavor of hops (grass, grapefruit, herbal, light pine), toasted grain, and caramel malt.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Lightly hazed golden body topped by beige head. Aroma is medium sweet, grapefruit, some mustiness. Taste is medium sweet, grapefruit, peach, pineapple, some spice. Medium bitterness. Watery medium body.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
on tap-pours a white head that laces and hazy gold color. Aroma is citrus, secondary light malt. Taste is citrus-lemon/grapefruit with some bitter, secondary light malt.
3.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bomber from Carl. Pours amber with a large creamy off-white head. Aroma is a bit perfume - could be grape I suppose. Med body. Foamy carb. It’s a little floral, a little fruity, and a touch of grape is possible, but I’d vote for floral and citrus. The malt is present, but not strongly roasted. I’m thinking more ESB than APA.
2.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
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.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Pours a light copper with a thick eggshell-colored head. Fresh, clean hoppy aroma blanced with lots of sweet caramel malt. Great tasting sweet butterscotch body well balanced with a piney hop bitterness. Very smooth, refreshing and drinkable.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
UPDATED: MAY 25, 2009 Proud earthy, floral hops sliding slowly on the tongue, providing decent wooden bitterness...Delicate caramelized cereals tag along with friendly citrus fruit…A fine quencher, like most of McNeill’s ales...
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Pours a cloudy light brown with no noticeable head. Smells of banana. Tastes very bitter at first with hop and malty undertones. Mollows out nicely. Good, but not as good as some of their other creations.
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