4

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Smell of straw. Golden colour, white head. Aroma of hops, grass, straw, paper, starch. Overwhelmingly bulky taste. Mid-rich carbon. Slightly dry palate.

4.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Bottle - dark gold with a light haze - looks like apple juice - smells like honey, buttery diacetyl, apples - low carbonation - feels kind of lifeless in the mouth - sweet - goopy mouthfeel - tastes like baked apples, corn, a touch of diacetyl - kind of medicinal, sweet finish - terrible.

6.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle from Total Wine in Folsom, CA. Pours translucent gold with a slight white head. Aroma is mildly bready; perhaps a hint of noble hop. Med body or so. Flavor starts with something like apricot, moves to bready, and there’s some slightly ? hop. Doesn’t seem noble; more fruity. It is crisp and decently bitter. Perhaps a bit sweet. All in all quite drinkable at the lake.

4.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

Location: 12 oz bottle from Buy Rite, 5/14/15

Aroma: The nose is fairly muted, some light pale malts, grains, a little biscuit, and caramel notes
Appearance: Pours a mostly clear golden-orange color with an off white head and medium lace
Flavor: The flavor is much the same, malty, a little dull, lightly sweet, and lightly bitter
Palate: The mouthfeel is a little fizzy, lighter bodied, with a fairly short duration
Overall Impression: This is pretty much the definition of an okay beer for me. It isn't really bad or good, just dull and unexciting.

4.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

Bottle from the state store
Pours clear light golden with a small white head, some light lacing. Aroma is malty, yeast, honey and bisquity. Taste is sweet, straw, grainy, honey and bready
Drinkable, but too sweet to be refreshing

4.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

Single bottle, dated Jan. 25. Pours a brassy gold color under a foamy head, a little bolder t lest than the average pale lager. Has that basic "beer smell," a bit of malt, a bit of salt, maybe a bit of corn. Taste is kind of okay. The adjunct I thought I smelled is not evident on the palate, so I’ll guess all-grain. A light toast to the malt. I can see this as a cold lawnmower beer on a hot day. But with the cachet it’s trying to build for itself, I don’t see why it should strive to be so… pedestrian.

1

Keep calm and (continue to make terrible beer for idiots) chive on. This picture is me after a sip.

6

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

12 ounce bottle from Beer Run. Clear golden, thin fizzy white head. Poor retention. Aroma of grainy, biscuit malt, honey, floral hops, almost grassy but not quite. The taste is floral hops, honey, biscuit malt. Medium bodied, low carbonation, mild lingering tartness.