5

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

Can - moderate Vienna and Munich character that tastes and feels a bit drained of life and character, like an Ofest that has been watered-down - scant hop character and a lightly metallic tinge - eh.

5.2

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

Pours hazy gold into a shaker. White head with medium retention recedes to skim surface. Sweet malt aromas. Sweet corn husk and dirty socks upfront. Dry, metallic finish. Was hoping for more...

6.5

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

Canned 7/5/24, drunk 8/28/24. Pale, peachy-copper. Medium-sized, off-white head steadily recedes to ring. The usual moderately-worty, lightly metallic nose of Athletic is joined by scant toast and biscuit from the medium malts. Very little hop character. A bit of squash character alongside brown butter and lots of grainy carbonic character. Some residual sweetness from malt as well as light wort. Basically zero hop character and very minimal bitterness.

5.3

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

Golden color instead of the traditional red which I prefer. Aromas are unfermented wort. Flavors are similar to nose, bittersweet and add in some carbonic tang. A hint of roast in there. Could probably cook with it.

7

Gold pour. Thickish foam. Stinkweed type flavor with a nice malty nut palate

5.2

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

Grass and bread nose. Clear amber, thin head. Paper, muted bread and grass. Mild grape nut finish. Light body, easy carbonation. Not a whole lot going on. Kudos for the attempt at a maerzen, but it honestly doesn't taste much differently than their other offerings.

4

Pours dark golden with a thin white head. Aroma of thin malt. Taste has resin, thin malt. Palate has lingering resin, oily elements. Not bad.

6.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

12 oz can from Athletic, via mail order, 10/3/22. Clear rusty colored beer with an off white head. Bread, grains, grass. Herbal and some light lemon notes.

5.1

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5

Occasionally bite bullet and grab NA brew for tick purposes. Muddled dirty gold. Nose is that weird NA twinge of whatever. Tastes of some malt, leafs, metallic. Not the worst but not what I’d cal pleasant.