3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
473ml can from trade with matt7215. Pours hazy orange. Frothy and large off white head, lasts forever. Floral aroma with a bit of mal fruitiness. Lemony hops are up front, tangy, a bit sour, this fades to some toasty malt with a bit of light leafy green hops in the finish. Light body with little carbonation. Was expecting a much sweeter product, the tartness was interestng.
2.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 1/5 OVERALL 10/20
It poured a cloudy dark amber liquid with a big foam that left a nice lacing. The smell was a bit weak but I could sense malt, bread, hint of nuts, meath brooth and something sweet. It also had a weak taste with some malt, bread, hint of meat brooth and someting sweet. Easy to drink with a low bitterness. However slightly accidic at the end.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
UPDATED: JUL 3, 2009 An interesting twist on the cream ale style....red carmel malts add some dimension to the fruity tastes left by the yeast. Pour puts a clouded amber-red ale in the glass with a smallish sticky off white cap that reduced to a surface clinging lace...aromas of caramel, spice, fruits...very subdued. Medium-light bodied with a creamy mouth feel. Sweet up front like toast and toffee but there are enough hops to yeast by products to offer a nice fruity undertone...the finish is the best best part of this ale... the hops and roasted malt "char" gang up to turn the caramel sweetness into a kind of licorice-toffee taste with a light fruity side note.....very different but in a nice way. Some may say this is too sweet for an ale but I think that the sweetness is well enough in check to keep the drink from becoming cloying even though the balance is a bit malt weighted.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Dark red pour, flavourful beer, you can taste the malts that make up the ’red’ part and the flavour of the cream, smooth texture and a nice finish, good offering
1.9 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 1/5 OVERALL 7/20
Starts off kind of a cute cottage beer - cheery orange-red pour, forward flavors and aromas of slighly tangy ale-fruits and fresh yeast. Nods to english style. Caramelly. Turns kind of malt-extract-like later in the glass, with a clingy sweetness that wrecks the finish a little. Feels a bit soapy, the hops don’t express well. Under-attenuated sugars? A little bit Home-kit like. Not a repeat. Is cute to look at though.
2.6 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
473 mL can. Reddish brown. Both cans I opened were gushers - huge beige head that subsided to almost nothing. Smells malty/brown sugar sweet. Taste is quite sweet, a little fruity, and, somehow, a little sour. Very little hops present. Smooth. No need to rush back to this one.
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Amber colour with large head. I noticed a very malty aroma right away. The flavour is malty with light hop background. The body is sticky.
3.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
Originally rated January 2007. Second brew tasted from Taps Brewing, found in cans at the LCBO. Pours a hazy copper-amber colour with good decent small bubbled carbonation. Very nice creamy off-white head that leaves lacing all around. Great nose of butterscotch and nuts, with a little hop. Then something odd happens. Sourness appears. And when tasted, a real sour punch occurs. Not a bad one though, and does not feel like a beer-turned-bad. Maybe because this one is not a macro ? I read others that have not had this problem. Must be a good cream ale at that point. Too bad, their premium lager turned bad on me quickly once I bought it. Had to drainpour my last bottle.
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