7.5

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Sample at Churchkey is a clear gold with some creamy white head. Nose has nice brioche and honey and grist. Hay too. Flavor is an ode to malt, sweet and earthy, honey and flower petals. Lightly prickly finish. Real good.

8.2

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Pours hazy light gold into a stein. Bright white micro head with excellent retention recedes leaving trailing sheets. Oak and straw aromas. Crisp with sweet oak, honey and earthy straw front to back. Lasting straw finish.

7.5

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

Draft at the source. Hazy yellow, white head. Light malt, hay, lemon and floral notes.

7.8

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

On tap at the brewery. Pours pale gold. Herbal, floral, apricot, biscuit, fragrant lemon zest. Medium body. Excellent.

9

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9

750mL growler filled 4/7/22, drunk 4/18/22. Crystal clear, well-carbonated, brilliant brass-golden. Small, but dense, white head showing moderate-to-strong retention. Soft, delicate herbs dot a dainty, honey-and-white bread malt base with additional rustic grain notes as it warms/breathes. Clean, crisp, clear, chalk full of lovely minerality and showing no alcohol, flaw and, even for a German helles, very low hopping. Sweet malts add honey and white bread dough. Tight carbonation helps distribute the hop bitterness, which is very low here, though ample. I love that that's the case, allowing the malt to really do the work here, as it should. Great mineral character, fresh herbs, honey. Crisp enough, yet malty. Drinkable and quenching, yet highly flavorful. Pretty god damned spectacular. Now I REALLY want to try Poetica.

8

Growler. Pours a hazy gold with medium white head that lasts. The aroma is strong earth, grass, citrus, wet biscuit. Slick body, sharp, bitter, grass, toasted malt, dry finish, very nice.

9

Great wood flavor

7.9

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5

Lager glass showing pale straw with a finger of clean white foam. The nose shows moderately intense notes of clean malt. The palate is well carbonated and light bodied with a soft mouthfeel. Malt forward, light, clean, and refreshing.

8.1

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5

Clear golden, large white creamy head, great lacing. Aroma is grainy, biscuit, grass noble hop. Flavor is light sweet, light plus bitter, clean. light body. 5,8,7,5,15