3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 11/20
Amber color, pours with a froth white head. Aroma of malt more than likely crystal malt. Flavor is somewhat piney and very reminensent of a pale ale. Sweet finish. Would make a decent session beer.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Pours a clear amber with small head. Taste is a bit more sweet malt than bitter hop. Drinkable yeah, but nothing to write home about.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Poured a copper color with a small off white head and very little lacing. Earthy, toasted malt, and citrus aroma. Taste began sweet, with some bubblegum. Finished lightly tart citrus, some grapefruit too.
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Poured a beautiful coppery amber with a nice white head, only moderate carbonation. Wonderful malty, yeasty aroma precluded a sweet, bready, malty flavor with only a subtle hop bitterness in the finish. A little light on the hops for my tastes, epecially for a style with the word "bitter" in the name. The malt flavors are great, but I feel that the overall flavor is too far biased in that direction.
4.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 17/20
Very attractive dark copper colored beer with a nicely retained off white head. Aroma is malty toast with a light hop presence and a bit of dust. Flavor picks up impressively with a vey nice malt depth and a subdueded hop bitterness that plays of of the malty breadiness. I am very impressed with this beer.
3.2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Amber hue, strong carbonation. Fairly strong bitterness, not as much of a malt presence. Finishes dry, overall easy to drink.
4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Nice amber color with thin, quickly disappearing head. Aroma of floral and citrus. Flavor has a very hoppy, peppery taste with dry finish. Overall a nice bitter.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
Clear and medium amber with a lasting head (smooth bumps and valleys). Sweet, doughy nose. Mouthfeel was on the light side; a little watery at times. Creamy up front, thinned out toward the finish. Malt flavors were nice, but they had a weak presence. Hops were grassy, a little citrusy, and somewhat peppery. Decent bitterness, relative to everything else. Overall, I yearned for a larger malt presence, but it was well-made and tasty.
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