Taps Charleston Lager

Perhaps they have changed since May. Although not being spectacular in any means it was still good. Light golden orange colour with beige head. Head disipated fast. Sweet aroma and sweet flavour. I could taste that pale ale however it was too sweet for what I was expecting of the style. Palate was oily and sweet.

Draught. At October 2005 Winking Judge BeerFest, Hamilton. Ugh - what a letdown after the much superior Taps Premium Lager. Poured clear oily pale yellow with no head. Funky honey aroma, sweet yet vaguely vegetal, all of which gives way to a weird medley of sweet fruit - cassis, raspberry, grape. Taste is of grains, raspberry jelly, with off-putting metallic harshness mixed in - some wheat as well. Palate is brackish and sickly sweet, as well as too thin. I didn’t like it at all, like a cheap lager thrown into a blender with a can of raspberry jam (and you forgot to open the can).

Clear yellow w/ slightly off-white foam. Sweet malty aroma w/ unpleasant notes of green grapes, butter, plastic, & vinegar. Light, thin feel. Sweet, syrupy, buttery flavour of honey & refined sugar. Almost no bitterness. Quite disappointing.

Malty nose, and olive/vinegar as well? Amber, small cream head. Tastes of junky candy, sticky and sweet. Poor.

Sampled at the Winking Judge Spring fest. My first experience with this brewery and while the folks representing it were friendly, this beer wasn’t very good. Sort of a dark yellow, copper colour, thin body, hardly any head. Taste was surprisingly sweet, but became very syrupy and terribly unbalanced as I made my though my mug full. I enjoyed their premium lager much more. The chap representing them said they were going for a more mainstream market with this one, but I encourage them to concentrate on their other product - it can still attract a mainstream market and stand up as a well crafted beer.