3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Date: March 13, 2010
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, RBWG 2010
Appearance: hazy gold, streaks of lace
Flavor: sweet malt flavor, lots of floral character, big spicyness
Overall: sweet malt flavor, big spicyness, lots of herbal character, touch of bitterness
Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 11/20
Rating: 3/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: ** /4
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
(22oz bottle) Pours a clear yellow body with a spare white head. Aroma of cinnamon rolls, dough, honey, and florals. Flavor of Cinnamon Toast Crunch with milk, ginger, caramel, grain, and honey. Odd.
3.5 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
(22oz bottle) Small white head atop crystal clear apple juice body. Aroma is medium sweet, chamomile, some honey. Taste is medium sweet, chamomile, light bread. Light-medium body. Really remarkable how strong the chamomile is -- never had anything like it. Certainly enjoyable, but can’t say I love it.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
22oz bottle-pours a dissipating white head and yellow/gold color. OK, after having half the bottle found yeast is at the bottom. Second half is hazy yellow/gold. Aroma is honey, herbal/floral/perfumy, light malt-bready. Taste is ginger/nutmeg-spice. OK carbonation. Interesting. Thanks to Joe-jwc215 for sharing.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
22oz bottle. Poured a medium and slightly hazy golden color with an averaged sized white head. Aromas of citrus and grainy. Tastes of the same citrus, grains, and honey.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Slightly hazy pale golden beer. White head. The aroma is really interesting. Strong sweet cookie-dough nose with a lot of vanilla and soft biscuity malts. It smells a bit like Southern Tier’s Pumpking, but without all of the spiciness that defines that beer. A sweet sort of caramelly pie crust sweetness that I think works really well. Softly sweet with a kiss of gingery spice. It’s sort of granola-esque. It’s surprisingly tasty.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Pours copper and hazy with a white head. Smells of honey, spicy, earthy, tea, caramel, some sweetness I can’t quite place. Taste is multi-layered with lots of spicy elements and a nice mellow hint of chamomile on the finish. One of the best World Tour releases to date from this brewer.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle from Capone’s. Pours deep gold with 1-finger white head. Nose is bready pale malt, perfumy florals, yeasty spice. Tastes tart, citric, with spice, bready grainy malt, and earthy yeast. The flavor profile is unlike any beer I’ve had before it, but it doesn;t blow me out of the water. Interesting but not great.
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