1.8 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 7/20
(12oz bottle) Pours a clear yellow body with a small white head. Aroma of sourdough bread, caramel, butterscotch, and wet cardboard. Flavor of sourdough, grass, florals, and caramel.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle from Belmont Party.
Poured a clear golden color with an average frothy white head that mostly lasted with good lacing. Moderate citrus hop aroma. Medium body with a slick texture and soft carbonation. Medium bitter flavor with a medium bitter finish of moderate duration.
This is an above average brew.
2.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
A hazed blonde IPA with a thin lacing off white head. In aroma, strange butterscotch and strawberries, with light putrid notes. In mouth, a sweet corn malt with light herbaceous hops, buttery, not very good. On tap at the Istmus Beer and Cheese, Jan 21 2012.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
12oz bottle shared courtesy of TomDecapolis. Poured a medium golden color with a small sized off white head. Aromas of floral hops, toasty, citrus, and pine. Aromas of the same.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
On tap at Hopcat. Very hoppy, like a double IPA Light yellow body with creamy white head and lacing.
2 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 6/20
Orange pour with a white head. Nose is cheesy and buttery. Grass and overcooked vegetables, a bit of pine, sweet bread, and water. What a nose. The flavor is more of the same. Tastes like cheese and boiled broccoli. Some butter added for good measure. Sweet bread, water, pine, and a very light bitterness. Garbage.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Pours turbid orange with 2-finger white head. Nose is caramel malt, hopcitrus, black pepper, tangerine. Tastes very hoppy, with a solid caramel malt backbone, and a lot of black epeppery and tangerinety citrus notes that balance out well. This one is delicious.
Earlier Rating: 6/30/2009 Total Score: 4
Bottle from Craft, labeled as "Lilja’s Hop Ness Monster". Poured turbid orange with 2-finger off-white head. Nose is caramel malt, heavy hops, tropical citrus, peppery, a rich palate, nicely complex, and a beer I tried to find again, but it was all gone. Shit!
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottled. Poured medium orange with a respectable cap of off-white head. The aroma picked up distant earthy and floral hops over a sweetened-up caramel base.. not nearly enough resiny greenery to stand up to the name, but it wasn’t bad overall. The flavor carried through that theme.. some mostly floral bitterness on all facets of the drink, but sweet caramel and bready pale malts were too big of players.. a muddled blend of those components stuck on the ideally-carbonated finish. Medium-bodied with a good mouthfeel on the palate.. unfortunately the beer didn’t live up to its name, though.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Pours a somewhat cloudy dark yellow color with a medium thin off-white head that recedes slowly. Stringy lacing on the glass. Aroma of hops, citrus and malt. Medium body with flavors of citrusy hops, caramel and grainy malt. The finish is mildly bitter with a short fruity hops aftertaste. Just average overall.
2.3 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 8/20
77IBU, 7%ABV, my lucky beer? I’d give you the answer in an adage. You can’t judge a book by its cover.
Bottle at SR. Pours a golden body with a mostly white head. Hoppy and butter y all at once, being a big fan of Amarillo i was pretty disappointed here. Big bitter body, light cardboard and butter y bread y tones. A touch floral and musky but seems more plagued by oxidation and incomplete fermentation? Big bitter warmth lingering. Something went wrong here for sure. On a side note i did like the artwork, which looks better in person then as depicted above.
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