8

sweet. Anna got fired. Tim quit. I don't know what is real here anymore.

7

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

12 oz bottle into pine glass, bottled on 6/22/2016. Pours fairly crystal clear deep golden amber/light orange color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense and fluffy white head with good retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lasts. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of lightly tart green apple, vanilla, cinnamon, toasted pie crust, herbal, grass, pepper, and yeast earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance of apple, spices, bready malt, and light-moderate earthy hop/yeast notes; with solid strength. Taste of lightly tart green apple, vanilla, cinnamon, toasted pie crust, herbal, grass, pepper, and yeast earthiness. Light-moderate herbal/spicy bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of green apple, vanilla, cinnamon, toasted pie crust, herbal, pepper, and yeast earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Nice robustness and balance of apple, spices, bready malt, and light-moderate earthy hop/yeast flavors; with a good malt/bitter/spiciness balance. Light lingering hop/spice astringency, but not overwhelming. Moderate dryness from lingering bitter/spiciness, increasing through the glass. Medium carbonation and light-medium body; with a smooth and moderately bready/grainy/sticky balanced mouthfeel that is good. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 4.1%. Overall this is pretty good flavored English bitter. All around good robustness and balance of apple, spices, bready malt, and light-moderate earthy hop/yeast flavors; very smooth and easy to drink, despite the increasingly bitter/drying finish. Was a little weird at first, as I was expecting a sweeter fruit beer after the aromas; but I got used to it through the glass. This was still quite tasty and enjoyable. A little candy-like, but not too artificial.