2.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
Draft at the alehous in Walnut Creek. A hazy amber beer with a lazing beige head. The aroma has notes of bread, caramel, and a touch of malt. The flavor is sweet, but with some weird off-notes, and more normal notes of caramel and malt - is it the malt base that makes it weird? I’m not a fan.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
From tap at the Pyramid taphouse in Walnut Creek. Pours hazy dark orange with a small white head. Aroma is light fruity and caramelish. Roasted caramelish and bitter flavoured. A bit watery finish, dry and bitter.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
On tap. Hazy orangey brown with an off-white head. Roasted malts and a little nuts in the nose. Medium body, nuts and roasted malt before some dry hops in the finish. 250709
2.8 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Draught as a 5 oz sampler at Pyramid in Sacramento, CA, on April 23, 2011
As "Alehouse Amber Ale"
Shady amber color, off-white head. Sweet, hoppy, malty, somewhat roasted taste. Moussy mouthfeel. A bit roasted aftertaste with hints of coffee, turns more fruity in the end. Medium bitterness. Fruity but also somewhat stale scent with sewage hints.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Draft. Slightly hazy amber-brown with a cream colored head. Toasty malt aroma with light burnt malt. Toasty malt flavor with light earthiness. Medium bodied. Toasty malt lingers with light earth.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Toasted bread and doughy yeast aroma, some light fruity hop aromas. Pours dark amber, cloudy, unfultered, decent creamy white head, light lace. Flavors of doughy yeast, toast, caramel, lightly acidic hops. Almost chewy mouthfeel.
2.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
Copper brown with a fizzy white head. Pleasant floral malty aroma but a tragically soapy taste. Bluck.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Sample at the brewpub in Berkeley on 8/8/10. Hazy amber/copper pour with a thin off-white head. Aroma of crystal malt and a bit of roast. Light crystal malt flavor with a teeny bit of hop.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Draft! Nose of caramel, light candi sugar note. Cloudy brown with a small beige head. Flavor is caramel and a little roastiness with a hint of vanillin.
2.3 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 8/20
Tap at Pyramid Taproom at Oakland Airport. Cloudy pale amber in color with a one finger cream-colored head. Faint aroma of caramel, nuts, and English yeast. The flavor is actually a bit yeasty, oddly enough. Sweet and malty with just a tiny bit of hop bitterness. Medium-bodied with average carbonation. The epitome of mediocrity, more or less.
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