3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 11/20
UPDATED: APR 14, 2010 LATER NOTES ** very nice dry Pale style with some great tangerine under it, and some pine-like hops tickling the tongue. Aroma’s coming together also. Really enjoy. ** FIRST NOTES ** Very nice pint of pale enjoyed at C’est what, it has good bones and is just a little bit shy on the aroma. Full rounded feel (not sticky sweet) good rounded hop bite, solid feel, balanced and as I said not a ton of aroma. A bit salty, nice. looks a darkish yellow and thick. This one elephant could someday fly.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Draught at Volo. Pours a slightly hazy orange with a small diminishing white head. Mild aroma is fruity and with light resiny hops and pale malt. Flavour: Smoke? Weird. Mild hops, caramel malt and grain along with smoke and a decent bitter finish. Average bodied. Odd but I liked it.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
On-tap at C’est What. 47 IBU only for an IPA. It is still hoppy, the carbonation is right there, the finish is odd. Orangey colour with some lace. Definite smoke, a touch watery, a mild pleasant aroma.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
on tap at C’est What
Appearance: clear golden with mid carbonation noted. white mid top with some lace presented. 3+
Nose: sweet malts as base to fruity hop character.
Flavor/Palate : smoked ,metallic bit rough front based on thinner malt. This ale becomes smoother as going forward. Smoky feel with metallic and malty blend worked better than you might imagine.
2.5 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
2009-10-01. Hazy golden yellow body with a modest frothy off-white head. Aroma of cooked corn, grass, other something. Flavour is likewise a bit odd, corn/cooked veg, dry pale malts. odd. Average palate. Poor. Based on other ratings it seems that perhaps this does not travel well? Or maybe its just me today, I don’t know. On tap at C’est What
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
UPDATED: MAR 13, 2010 1.9L growler thanks to Jimmay, thanks man! Pours a nice bright gold with a large rocky beige head. The aroma is some melon with piney hops riding on smoke which seems to work somehow. Nice. Flavour starts out very astringent and dry on the palate, nice hoppy bitterness and citrus, making way for the unintended smokey element which I find somehow fits and actually compliments the hops. Huh, weird, go figure, I’m enjoying this infamous off flavour from this brewery. Really decent biscuity malt backbone but this one is all about the hops and the smoke. I really like it, this is a very tasty beer and I wish I had more than just one growler!
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
UPDATED: MAR 15, 2010 Sampled fresh at the brewery:
Pours a lightly hazed amber-gold ale in the glass with a 2 finger fine pored off white puffy cap. Modest carbonation, good lacing qualities.
Aroma is caramel malts over resinous-citrus hopping and a whiff of mustiness.
Medium bodied, slick mouthfeel.
Big toffee malts in front get blasted with resinous piney hops and fruity esters, I get the light roasty tone others talk of in the middle as this shows some small complexity of flavors mingling, then a long wet bittering finish. Warming but alcohol is well hidden.
Hard to tell if this is an IPA as much as it is a big amber ale with character but it’s a decent enough effort from this brewer.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
On tap @ Volo.
Aroma has caramel malt, mildly fruity, with nice wet hops too, dark amber, tiny custard head. Flavour is fine malt, caramel, those yummy wet hops are present. Light bodied, balanced, slightly bitter, easy drinking for the abv. Very good, but I agree with HogTownHarry, doesn’t suit the style.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Draught . At Volo. I don’t think this was cask ... Poured hazy coppery-amber with a small off-white head. Pretty mild aroma - vaguely herbal/bitter, generic fruity sweetness, hints of grass and smoke - smelled a tad vinous. The taste was light and crisp, barely more than midly bitter, frankly the main taste element was campfire smokiness, which I certainly like, but in an IPA? where are the hops, man? The body seemed almost watery, fairly weak carbonation, extremely quick finish and a hint of bacon in the aftertaste. Certainly quaffable, and the best thing I’ve had from this pretty mediocre brewery, but IPA? ... nah.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
On tap at Volo. Pours a slightly cloudy gold with moderate white head. Green piney hops and pale malt in the nose. Flavour has some fruity and malt notes but big earthy, piney hops most prominent. Found it a little syrupy in the mouth. Not bad though.
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