3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
22 oz. bottle. Pours cloudy amber, with very little off-white head. Nose is grapefruit, sweet caramel malt. Sweet malt upfront quickly turns to grapefruity, citrusy hops followed by a long, bone dry, bitter finish. Too dry for my taste on the finish, almost ashey. Tone down the dryness and it’s a fine beer.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
20061209 Party at Capt Lawrence. Bomber. Buttery wheat toast with smuckers mixed fruit jam aside cut pink grapefruit. Odd and excruciatingly dry stuff.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
On tap at BT. Deep copper amber in color with a little white head. Caramel and toasty malty aroma. Hoppy citrusy notes. Malty and hoppy flavor. Finish is bitter. Medium bodied. Decent beer.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Nice smooth beer. Not too much happening but is pleasant. Has the browned apple aroma of a red ale and the bitterness of an ipa.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
on tap at the Blind Tiger. Amber in color with a small head. Aroma is caramel and toasted malt, with some floral hop character. Taste is moderately hoppy with floral and light grapefruit, with caramel, toasted malts, and some light bready yeast. Finishes bitter. Didn’t think this one would be classified as an IPA, thought it was an amber for sure.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Draft at the Blind Tiger. Ruby red, orange pour with some off-white head. Aroma is light caramel malt and floral hops. Flavor has light sweetness, grainy malt, and mild bitterness in the end. Like a mediocre hopped amber ale.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle. Pours a dark amber with a big off-white fluffy head. Aroma of mild caramel, sour fruit, floral and bitter hops. Flavor is a bitter/ sour mix with light caramel, bready malts, faint oak and some bittering hops
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Pours clear amber with a fizzy beige head.
The half inch head fell quickly to a sporatic coating on the surface.
Aromatics lead off promising with spicy and citrus-like hops. Nothing overpowering, but somewhat fresh and grassy.
A sweet malt nod pulls though on the finish of the nose.
Mouthfeel is medium and slightly syrupy.
Pallet is a big dissapointment. Crystal malt with a stale yeast bite.
Hopping is only apparent in the bittering, and a touch of citrus fruit.
Slightly sweet in the beginning, but quickly flips to a rough bitterness with cardboard.
Finishes astringent and slightly acrid, with lingering bitterness.
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