Bottled@SBWF2012. Golden colour with a small white head. Aroma is fruity and floral hops with some mild grassy and toffeeish notes. Flavour is crisp bready maltyness along with some sweeter malts as well as some grassy and floral notes. Also mild nectary notes in the finish.

Bottle at Stockholm Beer and Whiskey Festival 2012. Hazy golden liquid with small to medium white head. Aroma of citrus, grain, grass, floral hops, licorice? and biscuit. Taste is dry (maybe a bit sweet) and light to medium bitter with notes of grain, citrus and lager yeast. Medium bodied with medium carbonation.

Sample @ Stockholm Beer & Whisky 2012. Pours cloudy yellow with a frothy white head that slowly dissipates while leaving a small trace on the glass. Smell is sweet, malty and hoppy with bread, grass, pine, pineapple, alcohol, biscuits, grapefruit juice, lemon zest and hints of butterscotch hard candy and orange zest. Taste is sweet, bitter, malty and herbal with bread, orange peal, grapefruit juice, peaches, pine, lemon zest, white sugar, lemon balm, alcohol and hints of grape skins. Mouthfeel is round, tiny boozy and medium bodied. Finish is sweet and bitter with bread, pineapple, grass, pine, lemon zest and grapefruit juice. Feels like another DIPA made with lager yeast. Quite good...

Bottle. Amber beer with a big cream head. Malt and spice aroma with light woodsiness. malt and spice flavor with light esters. Medium bodied. Malt and spice lingers with light fruitiness.

75 cl bottle @ hotel room, Seattle. Bottled 02/2011
Aroma is rather sweet with lots of fruits, some mango and apricot. Flavour is really sweet with apricot, some mango and hops in the finish. I would take this as an American Strong Ale. Too sweet stuff for me.

750 mL bottle bought in March 2011 (price check: $9 at Famous Liquors, Lombard). It’s time! Pours at first like any other macro pale lager. Once the foam starts to settle, I can see the golden beer color is just a little hazy, Head pours pretty puffy over the rim of my narrow pilsener glass. Smell starts off with some citrusy hops, in fact, lime was the first thing I thought of, but sucking on the foam offers some Saaz as well. Finally getting into the beer itself, and I’m just saying what the hell. Malt is nice and thick, and surely all barley malt. Unabashedly teeming with alcohol. Hops have pretty much mellowed down in the palate, but when malts are this strong, I just think of a strong IPA that matches. I would like to have compared this to the Red White & Blue Malt Liquor, but I recall the other just tasted like strong beer. This is an imperially beastly brew indeed.

On tap at the Gaithersburg location. Pours a clear yellow gold with a white head that dissipates to the edges and laces. Aroma has light grassy hops with a hint of light grains with a crisp lager yeast. Flavor has light grains up front with a bitter grass note throughout with a hint of backing citrus.

Bottle 750ml.Light unclear medium yellow colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white to off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, sweet malt, moderate hoppy, flowery - herbs, moderate yeasty. Flavour is moderate to light heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20120202]