3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Pours medium orange amber with a beaded white head. Aroma is a pungent bouquet of piney, citrus hops with prominent grapefruit notes. Taste is plenty of citrus, pine, and resin with a relatively light malt backbone. Medium bodied with a soft mouthfeel and bitterness for an IPA. Very drinkable beer. Pretty good.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
12oz bottle. Pours a clean orange with a small white head. Aroma of fresh cut grass, orange peel, and some stale grain. Not as bright as I hoped for. Medium bodied for an ipa with more citrus overtones and some bitter west coast pine and grass notes. Definately a malt forward ipa. The finish starts with citrus and ends with pine.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
International great Beer festival, 2011. The aroma is caramel, bread, earth, pine, very nice. The appearance is clear gold, red tinge, white head. The flavor is caramel, bread, citrus and pine hops. The finish is pine and citrus. Medium/thick in body. Very good. If you didn’t know better, you’d swear this was an IIPA.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
My final CT beer of the 5 pack and probably best of the bunch. Pours nice bright copper with soapy head. Fruity and floral aroma. Taste is of tropical fruits and banana, light hop bitterness, caramel, earth, and cloves. Lingering finish and crisp. Nice surprise
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Coppery amber in color with an off-white head. Aroma is of floral hoppiness. Tastes of hops, banana, citrus, and spice. Enough of a kick of sweetness to distinguish it from most run-of-the-mill IPAs. Clean and crisp in the finish.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
The body is brownish amber in color and though the head recedes quickly, the lacing is incredibly complex. The aroma and flavor both are piney and floral with a notable presence from the caramel malt base. The bitterness is light and subdued, and there is some grapefruit in the finish. Solid overall, but slightly understated for my preference.
2.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
12 oz bottle born on 2011-05-18.
It pours a medium amber with a foamy off-white head.
Smell is fruity, sweet and spicy. There is some orange and some herbal notes.
The flavor is malty with a mediocre hoppiness that is sort of blunt. There is a sharp sweetness to start and the middle is okay, the end is just bitterness, not really piney or citrusy, just bitterness. It isn’t that bitter.
I have had alot of better IPAs.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Slightly cloudy deep amber pour with a moderate off-white head. Aroma is malt, caramel, citrus, and hops. Flavor is nicely balanced and the bitterness lingers. Good stuff.
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