3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
22 oz bomber. Pours a clear reddish coppery amber with a medium sized frosty cream colored head. Aroma of bitter malts, biscuit dough, fruit and veggies. Taste of bitter notes, malts, dough, fruit and toffee.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
On tap at the 2010 NFB&WF at Martha Clara Vineyard. Pours a hazy gold with a linen white head. Pleasant aroma of malt with some mild orange and grapefruit. The flavor is malt with some mild-moderate hops bitterness that is slightly fruity. Medium bodied. No problems.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
22 oz. bomber. Pours a golden amber mahogany color, with white bubbly head, nice lacing. Smell is of hops, and fruit, orange, sour citrus, also tones of buttery malt. Flavor is a hop dominated but relatively balanced blend with fruity tones on the finish. I liked this one, and am really digging this brewery.
1.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 1/5 OVERALL 7/20
From the 22 fl. oz. bottle with a label clipping of November and no year. It pours a rather hazy amber-red with a bit of foamy cream colored head that dissolves after a couple of moments. I was not impressed with the yeasty and slightly malty aroma. What I noticed more was something that reminded me of watermelon. The taste has little in the way of hops or malts but loads in the way of sour and tart. It made my lips pucker up and that is not the way I like my beer. Drinkablity was pretty weak. Not one of McNeill’s better brews.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle. Pours a redish color with a foamy white head. Nose is hoppy up front with a caramel type sweet biscuity malt in the backround. Palate is full and crisp with a bit of filmy residue. Flavors of the bright floral hops and some sticky caramel malt notes.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
Pours bright mahogany into a shaker. Off-white head recedes leaving spider lacing. Mild caramel aromas. Crisp and slighly sour with caramel from in the slightly hopped finish.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
A reddish, yes, ruby, dark amber ale with a thin lacing light moka head. Aroma of caramel malt, cinnamon, perfumey, and light boiled veggies. In mouth, a sweetish malt with oily mouthfeel, very grainy, not hoppy, with some light acidity. Medium bodied. Bomber from Brattleboro Food Coop, 4$.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Impressive rocky head of four fingers--good chunky lace on the side of the glass. Crystal clear dark amber color. A beautiful beer.
Lots of crystal malt balanced with a spicy hop aroma. Notes of butter and caramel. There’s also a (very) mild bitterness that I’ve never smelt before in a beer--it’s appealing and unusual.
Smooth, creamy feel to the initial sip. Lots of dry-ish malt, some nuttiness. Becomes bitter quickly on the tongue. Pleasant hoppy swallow with a long aftertaste of pepper and cumin. Love the complexity; keeps me interested for a very long time. Worthy of a multiple purchase.
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