3.5 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
12 ounce bottle, bottled in April 2011. Served in a pint glass, the beer pours a reddish/brown color with an inch light tan head. The head doesn’t stay around long, but there’s a decent amount of lacing left on the glass. Aroma is mostly sweet, the brew smells like caramel, nuts, toffee, bready malt and a bit of herbal hops. The taste is a little more bitter than I thought it would be. It tastes like nuts, caramel, herbal/leafy hops, and bready malt. Mouthfeel/body is medium, and it’s well carbonated. I think it’s a decent enough brew, and I’d like to try a fresher bottle of this in the future.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Draught at the brewpub. Pours on the red side of brown with a beige head. The aroma is caramel and toast with a mild toffee hint, earthy hops, and a little bit of leather. The flavor is more hop-forward than expected; some wood, caramel, baking cocoa, and some crackery malt are in there, too. There is a hint of bitterness in the finish, along with a tannic note. Not too shabby.
2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
draft... medium copper, almost clear but a bit of murk, dark orange accent to it, great tan lacing... nutty caramel nose, weak and boring.. the taste is even weaker, roasted nuts, bad finish... pass
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cute squirrel on bottle still somehow seems a bit too photoshopped to really work. The beer itself has a couple prominent strains, particularly a strongly roasted note with hints of tobacco leaves and a moderately strong hoppiness. Overall it is drinkable but not very satisfying; a little off-putting, in fact. Bottle.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle. Slight sour toffee malt and grass aroma. Cloudy orange-brown color with nice tan head. Sweet-sour toffee malt and lightly bitter herbal hops flavor. Nice hoppy brown ale.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Served on draft at the Indianapolis tasting room. Pours a hazy brown color with a medium sized fizzy cream colored head. Good head retention and lacing. Aroma of chocolate malts, nutty notes and a leafy finish. The taste is coffee, chocolate and a hoppy finish. Medium bodied.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
A pretty good brown ale. Typical and expected malt flavor. Kind of ordinary and along the similar flavor lines and many of their other beers.
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Crushed at GABF ’10. Fantastic name for a brown ale, first of all. And yes, it is quite nutty, little roasty, little hoppy. Easy drinking.
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