3.1 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
(draft) Hazy dark amber body with off-white head. Aroma is medium sweet, chococaramel, light floral, orange. Taste is medium sweet, molasses, chocolate, caramel, some orange/grapefruit. Light-medium body, low carbonation.
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
on tap-pours a thin off white head and hazy amber color. Aroma is medium malt-caramel. Taste is medium malt-caramel, bready, yeast (apple?), some citrus hops.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Orange amber ale with no head. Light caramel malt and faint hops in aroma. In mout, good malt with diacetyl notes and floral hops. Buttery mouthfeel. On tap, Feb.10, 2006.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
The Lure:
Caramel sweetness and peachy fruitiness lay on wet soil. Faint roastiness peers through.
The Festivities:
That treacherous mineral water character is still there. A few citrusy hops precede an earthy, resinous bitterness. Caramel fruitiness is well-balanced with the hoppiness, but that invasive dirtiness always nags.
Transcendence:
Newspaper stains.
2.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
Straight deep amber, off-white cover. Minty hops join the otherwise malty nose that has a pleasant earthyness to dose the caramelly crystals adequately. Tartish and mineral palate with that typical rocky dryness, saltiness that kills the malts. Light bodied, fair carbonation. Arduous.
2.1 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
On tap at the brewpub. Malt job, with an dd bitterness. Very light brown colour, tea-ish. Touch of lace. Thinnish whisp of head.Malty aroma.Above average carbonation. 5% a.b.v. Fairly weak and low drinkability.
2.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
what an odd amber. Tap at the Shed in Stowe,VT. Amber/light brown color with no head. Malty and fair aroma bjut flavor is weird. Malty but also tart and weird. No hops to mention. Not a great amber at all.
2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 7/20
UPDATED: DEC 15, 2005 Original Rating (3-3-3-1-5=1.5): Sampled Summer 2003 - Fair amount of buttery diacetyl in the sweet aroma. Brownish-copper body with thin but lasting white head. Butter overwhelms the caramel malts in the flavour. Sticky, cloying body. Sampled at the brewpub.
Rerate (5-3-5-3-9=2.5): Mineralic, grainy malt aroma with some herbal hops and dark, sweet crystal malt apparent in the nose. Hazy, deep, amber coloured body is topped by a decent, off white, fine bubbled head that recedes to a lasting cover. Mineralic flavour is quite dry with moderate bitternessand some lingering caramel malts. Medium light body with moderate, fine bubbled carbonation. Sampled on tap at the brewpub with beerbuzzmontreal, MartinT, muzzlehatch, Rastacouere and Yowie.
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