3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Tap @ Max’s. Pours clear dark brown with ruby highlights and a small, fizzy white head, short retention with light lacing. Aroma is nutmeg and cinnamon, caramel and cookie malt, dates and figs. Flavor is malt dominant with spices, light hops and bitterness with dark fruits and a dry finish. Medium body and carbonation.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Tap. Pours clear, dark amber with thin, fizzy white head. Aroma is plums, raisins, cookie and cereal malts, floral hops, and light sour notes. Flavor is bready malts forward with supporting dark fruit esters, floral hops, cookie dough, and faint woody notes; dry, lightly sweet finish. Medium body and low carbonation.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
12oz pour at Of Love and Regret. Hazy copper amber with some filmy off white head. Nose is spicy, nutty, clove, cinnamon, nutmeg, malt, brown bread, dried fruit. Flavor is sweet, dried fruit, spice. Full but dry finish.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Light cherry and faint caramelized grain. Background spice and a nice dryness after a medium body. Light bitterness. Earthy. Well integrated.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Draft at ChurchKey. Dark clear maroon brown color, bright tan edge head. Aroma of cocoa and subtle coffee grounds. Taste is slighty funky coffee. Decent.
3.3 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 19/20
roasty, basement aromas, brown, cloudy, minimal head, medium sweetness, lightly bitter, medium body, creamy, flat,
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
On draft at Churchkey DC on innauguration night. Pours dark brown with an off white head. Toasted malt aroma. Silky mouthfeel. Notes of caramel. Crisp refreshing finish.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 15/20
Growler from brewery. Pours a deep mahogany color with a finger of eggshell foam that settles out quickly. On the nose there is a lot going on with dark fruit, cherry, plum, saltine crackers, earthy wood, touches of brown sugar and some rustic herbalness too. The palate follows the nose in complexity and the current 2012 offering is weighing in at 10.5%abv which is very well hidden.Dark woodsy flavors mingle with dark fruit, tobacco and hints of caramel on the back end...great rustic finish that lingers and bitters nicely.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Christmas beers you got to love them. If you don’t then you’re a Grinch. Wonderful spices ,great colors and warm in your tummy. Mmmm Christmas. This was a nice take on a spiced farmhouse ale I thoroughly enjoyed every drop.
2.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 1/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
#1162 draught; nose is sweet malt, smoke whiff, heavy cake, red currant, feel is medium, carb is medium, taste is medium alcohol, rotten fruit, decent malt, some late earth
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