3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
I expected this beer to be their "accessible" beer, and while it is, there's quite a bit more flavor than expected. Clear golden body. Aroma is medium sweet, pine and some grapefruit. Taste is pine of medium intensity bitterness, some grapefruit, slight caramel malty. Medium body, slightly chewy.
2.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
Draft at the source. Hazy yellow color, s
All white edge head. Aroma of straw and white pepper. Taste is watery bitter lemon.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Grassy hop bitterness and light cereal husks proffer dry and subtle pictures...Not much to say, but a tasty pint for the house blond ale...
3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Served on draft at the brewpub. Pours a clear copper color with a medium sized white head. Decent head retention. Aroma of lightly toasted pale malts, herbal hops and a faint resiny note. The taste is lightly toasted grain with fruity and floral hops. Medium bodied - refreshing.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Pours gold with a decent white head. Smells surprisingly hoppy for what it is. Tastes slightly bitter with some malt presence.
2.5 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Clear straw, no head. Very light nose, balanced grain and cereal nose. Typical light quaffable body shows more of that frequently encountered grainy yet balanced well made beer taste in the good brewpubs’ basic beers.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
On tap at Willimantic on the way home from a weekend in Boston for EBF. Pours a clear amber gold with a thin white head. Soft grain and toast. Grainy, lightly sweet with touches of apples and fruit. Toast and grain. Lightly crisp bitterness.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Draft at the Brewpub. Pours a golden body with a thin white head. Bread y dry with some light earth toned hops, a light roll with some mild grain and hay tones. Sweet and simple, and okay.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Mild fresh hop aroma is floral and lightly spicy. Bright, clear, golden body with low white head. Fresh grainy malt with floral, spicy hops and fair bitterness and some very nice fruity esters. Medium-light body with moderate carbonation. Sampled at the brewpub with MartinT, muzzlehatch and Rastacouere.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Sample. Yeah, well I got the sampler. Yeah, well I'd already had a few of the offerings, yeah, well, the barleywine wasn't available in the sampler platter. Yeah, well, so I had to get this one to round out the five. Am I done yet? Oh, no, I have to write something about this beer? Something constructive? Not necessarily? Ok, now you're talking. Boring, pale golden, grainy boring stuff. Oh there's a bit of hops, the body isn't bad, but honestly for me this was just nothing special. Happy now?
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