Beer Ratings: Most Recent

Ringwood (Marston’s) Ringwood, Hampshire

From old tasting notes. Clear amber orange liquid with a creamy beige head. Spicy mal/hop aroma is slightly complex. Semisweet toasted malt palate that becomes drier as it progresses toward the finish. Bitter aftertaste of medium duration. Well rounded and full bodied.

Odell Brewing Company Fort Collins, Colorado

Pours cloudy golden with flat head. Aroma of raspberries, citrus. Taste is mild raspberry tart, crisp finish. Light and crisp body with average carbonation.

Royal Oak Brewery Royal Oak, Michigan

Served on tap at Royal Oak Brewing. Dark black color with a brown head. Malt coffee aroma. Malt choc bitter. Basic porter. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Trillium Brewing Company Boston, Massachusetts

Tasted from can. Pours a murky yellow with white head. Aroma of grapefruit, orange and other citrus notes. Moderately bitter. Flavors of orange, grapefruit, mango, papaya, biscuits, caramel. Excellent pale ale. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Mikkeller San Diego San Diego, California

Can from Gambrinus. Pours a clearish, light copper with a finger of foam. Lots of pine and caramel notes. Maybe a bit of orange. Sweet but not cloying. Enjoyable but a lil too old school.

Blue Moon Brewing Company (MillerCoors) Denver, Colorado

Bottle from IGA, Cookeville, Tennessee. Clear golden with a carbonation and a small head. Crisp and suitable for summer sipping, although not blessed with a huge amount of wheat beer character. The honey is more stated providing the best of its nose, and a smoothness in its texture.

Sierra Nevada Brewing Company Chico, California

16oz can pours out a golden color topped with a white head. Nose is light tropical fruit hops citrus and some cereal malts. Taste is more of the nice tropical fruit hops pineapple some tangerine notes and a light bitterness on the end.

Ringwood (Marston’s) Ringwood, Hampshire

From old tasting notes. Clear amber orange color witha medium beige head. Spicy toasted malt nose hints at coconut. Foretaste is bittersweet and complex. Midtaste is tart and effervescent. Finish and aftertaste are bitter and dry.

Bearded Iris Brewing Nashville, Tennessee

Can from Gambrinus. Pours a hazy mango gold with a creamy head that lingers for a bit. Crushed pineapple nose with some dank, pine & light diesel. Creamy on the palate with some orangina like texture. Mango as it warms. Smooth!

Pipeworks Brewing Company Chicago, Illinois

Pours deep clear copper with low off-white head. Aroma of berries, cherry, fruit, light citrus. Taste is mild tarty with a cherry tart finish. Light and smooth body with soft carbonation.

Cascade Brewing Portland, Oregon

On tap at Cascade. Poured a cloudy gold to amber color with a thin head. Lemon grass, some lighter ginger, wood / oak, and tart citric finish.

Abita Brewing Company Abita Springs, Louisiana

Bottle from Js. Pours a clearish straw with a small white head that dissipates quickly. Skunky pils nose with grainy water aromas. Thin and watery on the palate. Very American wheat-like. Not much lime or salt. Watered down. Pass.

Heineken Nederland Zoeterwoude, Netherlands

Pours pale yellow with a big frothy head. Aroma is light but malty. Taste is very light. Water with malts and sweet corn.

Ale Asylum Madison, Wisconsin

On tap at the Crafty Cow in Oconomowoc. IPA pour. Little head. Nice grassy hops in the nose, with some fruit. The taste is quite citrusy, light sweet malts. Lighter than medium bodied. Solid pale. 13.5

Barncat Artisan Ales Cambridge, Ontario

On tap @Arabella Park. - Tap puts a turbid straw colored ale in the glass with a small tight pored cap. Aroma is big on grapefruit, some pine and very light malts. Flavor profile starts with big juicy grapefruit discernment, light in malting, surprisingly effervescent peppers the palate as it goes as dry and bitter in the finish as an ex wife). Great quencher, really drinkable