Ad Astra Ale
Free State Brewing Company in Lawrence, Kansas, United States 🇺🇸
Amber / Red Ale Regular|
Score
6.60
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“To the stars” in Latin, Ad Astra takes you to heights of flavor, with notes of chocolate & toasted malt balancing a hint of herbal hop character. A perfect pairing for your next meal. The original Kansas craft beer!
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6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Draft at the source. Clear dark amber color, small tan head, solid lacing. Aroma of briwn bread and caramel. Taste is caramel.
Tried
from Draft
on 03 Jul 2012
at 17:02
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle: Brownish copper pour with a finger of white head. Mostly malty with a light earthiness. Caramel, light florals, slighty earthy, and rather sweet overall. Not a bad little session brew.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 May 2012
at 13:24
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
At the brewery. Pours copper and clear with off-white head. The malt is very pronounced. Nice malt flavor as well, but it is thin mouthfeel with a watery consistency.
Tried
on 27 Jan 2012
at 00:05
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
On tap at the brewpub. Poured a clear amber with a slight orange hue and a white head that lasted throughout the beer and laced nicely. Aroma has a bit of grassy hops and light pine backed by a nice earthy grain note. Flavor was similar with a slight bitterness of grass and pine but mainly had earthy malt notes of grains.
Tried
from Draft
on 05 Nov 2011
at 22:40
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Sample at Flying Saucer in KC. The beer is a clear dark amber color with a medium thin light beige head that dissipates steadily. Partial rings of lacing. Aroma of caramel malt and grassy hops. Medium body with flavors of hops, caramel malt and a bit of dark fruit. The finish is sweet and malty at first with a lightly grassy hops aftertaste that does not linger long. Decent overall.
Tried
on 16 Jun 2011
at 14:00
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft at Barleys in OP, KS. Copper red in color. Not much head by the time I got it at the table. No memorable aroma, though a nice full malted barley taste. Decent bitter finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 05 Nov 2006
at 20:10
6.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
[At GABF 2004] A copper colored beer with a beutiful orange head. The aroma is sweet and sour with notes of berries. The flavor is sweet nutty with a dry hoppy end.
Tried
on 22 May 2005
at 20:11
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Bright clear chestnut; little amber head, fast gone. Nose, after much sniffling, just yields a little liquorice - some roasted malts might be hinted at. Taste is a combination of well-roasted malts and a hidden, but present hoparoma - but all of it in a kind of low-key. Not very well-bodied; slightly velvety mouthfeel. Either I'm missing something, either there's not much ado in this beer...
Tried
on 02 Oct 2003
at 15:54
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Fairly clean with a mild caramel sweetness and likable hop bite - slight grassy and resiny.
Tried
on 11 Feb 2002
at 16:31