3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
@PilsnerPeters-12oz bottle-pours a white ring for a head and gold color. Aroma is light malt-bread/caramel. Taste is light malt-bread/caramel, spice hops. Easy.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
12oz bottle from Trader Joe’s, Chapel Hill. Seems like some kind of blasphemy to associate a beer so bland with such an interesting city. I won’t blame the style, though, I’ll blame TJ for producing yet another watery, indistinct, and generally depressing beer. The weather here is wicked hot, and I was in the mood for a crisp quaffer. This was basically like Michelob Amber or something similarly fail-ish.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
12 oz.
Smells a little bit like vanilla coke (vanilla, carmel, cola), which I wasn’t exactly expecting. Mouthfeel is moderately chewy and finishes with a nicely crisp note. All in all, one of the more compelling offerings in the TJ’s own brand arsenal.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
12 oz bottle. Pours amber with a white head. Aroma is primarily of caramel with toasted malts and honey. Flavor is rather thin, with some caramel and biscuit flavors. Okay, but just not a lot of flavor.
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
Caramel amber pour. Nose is sweet. Taste is caramel malt. Much better than expected. Rated 5/15/05
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 14/20
Orange, crystal clear, and pinky finger off white head. Long lace and ring. Nose is kinda creamy. Yeast, hay, and citrus sweetness. Taste is moderately deep sweetness. Hits the back of the tongue. Ammonia or sulfur leftovers. Noticable, but not bad. Sweet fruitiness before funky bitterness. Seriously sessionable brew, but who thought it was almost 6%? Beer noobs would use this as a stepping stone.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Poured caramelish amber with a standard light tan head...great malty/biscuity/caramel aroma. Lightly sweet with a nice bitter bite on the finish. Light bodied, standard carbonation...easy drinker...
1.4 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 4/20
Slightly more flavor in it than a bud, but thats not saying much. The only good thing about it was... oh wait, nothing. It was cheap and my wife is a penny pincher even though i constantly explain that if its cheap it probably sucks, this proves my point.
2.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 7/20
bottle split with maniac. Pours a clear pale amber with some tan head. nose is caramel, with just a hint of smoke. Flavor is grainy, with a bit of rubbing alcohol on the tail. Moderate carbonation. Nothing special here.
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Sampled out of the bottle. Pours light brown. Drinks nicely. A pretty decent brew.
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