2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Bottle from Cavie. Deep brown pour with a tan head. Aroma is caramel, a little chocolate, and a little sour grain. Taste is really nutty, chocolate, caramel, and that same little sourness.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Browned amber body with a gorgeous melanoidin-red hued under-belly hoisting a creamy beige top. Easy brown malt nose leads to a well-balanced, albeit simple, body. This one packs just a bit more punch than a macrobrew--kind of a gateway beer to the land of microbrews. Inoffensive and mildly flavored.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 9/20
Pours slightly hazy amber color with light tan head. Aromas of biscuity malts and floral hops. Toasted malt flavor with some grassy hops. Light to medium body with average carbonation.
3.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Another simple but flavorful beer that has an inexplicably low score. Nice mix of malts and grains in this dark brown hazy brew. The aroma is muted but a good chocolate hit and cereal grain. Nice session beer.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
My sample was fresh at a restaurant in Nashville. This beer had some nice flavors of molasses, roasted malt with a hint of spice. Not an overly flavorful or extraordinary beer, but good and enjoyable.
1.8 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 6/20
17-Jun-10 (12-oz bottle, Bottled in April, 2010: Shared by SDbruboy, thanks Cliff!) This beer pours deep amber in color and beautifully clear, and the off-white head rises to a quarter inch before settling to a thin ring. A nose of dark bread and dry graininess when first poured, but also a touch of medicinal unpleasantness in the nose. However, the aroma picks up a lot of red apple skin and cheesiness soon thereafter, replacing just about all the maltiness that was discernible on the pour. Caramely, nutty, and slightly chocolaty malts with the first sip or two, but the beer really breaks down in a hurry as plastic, medicine, and astringent red apple skins emerge to trample the malt. Dry, moderately carbonated, and fairly watery on the palate. Flaws all around, and quite simply, this is just not good beer, not even for the attempted style. Drain pour.
2.8 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Medium brown in the glass. Aroma of bready malt. Crisp and clean on the palate, nutty malt flavors.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 14/20
Draft at Flying Saucer in Memphis. Dark and creamy with a big, solid head. Quite in the classical dunkel style, chalky, bitter chocolate, very smooth. Nice. (#4051, 12/18/2010)
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