6.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Crisp, very light golden coloured body with a hazy glow of straw and raw honey that shows at about 25 per cent opaque, with a relatively thick, five to six centimetre tall pure white head that fades relatively quickly and leaves a thinnish pure white head on top. Aroma of grass, nuts, earth, flowers and a dry herbal character with some peated malt and grain and a light touch of sweetness with some pungent yeast noticeable in the nose. Light to Medium-bodied; Relatively strong dry herbal and grassy flavours dominate with a peaty and deep nutty profile all coming from the malts with some very subdued sweetness, mainly from apples, pears and stone fruits, but the floral and nutty yeast bite remains throughout with some potency at the end. Aftertaste shows mainly the malts, yeast and bitterness with some dry, herbal notes, but the peaty, biscuity and especially nutty flavours of these is by far the strongest. Overall, a nice enough beer with some pungent flavours from the yeast and malts, but little else in terms of complexity and richness. I sampled this sixteen ounce, pint-sized can, purchased from the Department of Beer and Wine in Alexandria, Virginia on 18-September-2020 for US$3,32 sampled at my house here in Washington on 16-November-2020.