Subsidiaries
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
12 oz bottle-pours a thin white head. Color is yellow. Flavor is a nice balance of grain/hops. Good carbonation, flavor is OK.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jul 2005
at 19:17
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
12 oz bottle-pours a thin white head. Color is yellow/gold. Flavor is hoppy, good carbonation. 080702-rerate
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jul 2005
at 19:16
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Bottled. U.S. Beer #16 of 31 for American Beer Month! Pours a rather big head at the start, much like a pub draught. The brownish tan head settled enough for me to pour in more beer, and showed a Guinness "shamrock" on top. Now the foam is subsiding to a rocky moonscape with lace around it. Smells great, just lightly roasted, but enough of the black stuff for a solid body with blood highlights. Also some of that sweet/sour taste of a well-made fresh stout. Prominent alcohol bouquet for what’s normally a mild session style. Taste skips dryness and astringency for a kind of apple and cherry juice, but sweet, not cidery. No specific hop note beyond a bit of bitter, but then it leaves a little sting on the upper lip. Could definitely be the same yeast as used in their SNPA. A fine, enjoyable beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jul 2005
at 21:24
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
A comfortable ale with a several tastes — hops, spice, citrus — none of which hit you over the head. Moderate carbonation. A nice bitterness at the outset. Medium body.
Tried
on 13 Jul 2005
at 20:33
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Golden with a light head. Clean taste, slightly bitter. A step or two above mass market lagers, but certainly nothing to write home about. Underwhelming comes to mind.
Tried
on 10 Jul 2005
at 20:21
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
2003 vintage Off-white head, falling away fast over hazy orange-amber ale. Sweetish cookies and cake-bottom with a whiff of hops. Little aroma of sweetened juniperberries. Mix raisins, lychees, cookies, cardemoms, cloves, honey-laden flowers, apples and a lot of (American) hops into a very evenly mix, and one might come near to this. Retronasal some resiny harshness. Well-bodied without appearing very heavy, slight oilyness, typical for an American beer. Superb, superb balance giving both a restrained and a rich feeling. Thanks to Logan Perkins.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Jul 2005
at 02:53
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Sweet peach and wheat malt aroma. Light yellow color - clear with moderate head. Sweet peach and moderately hoppy finish. A nice wheat beer on the bitter side.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jul 2005
at 17:40
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pretty good, but not up to the expectations that some of the other Sierra Nevada products have created. Aroma is weak and grassy, with a little bit of hops. Looks about like you would expect from a lager, light and bubbly with minor head that diminishes quickly leaving some nice lacing. Taste is about as expected for a lager, maybe a bit more grain and malt than most, though.
Tried
on 18 Jun 2005
at 23:07
3.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 3
This beer is proof that microbrewers are quite able to make beers just as crappy as BMC. Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a medium golden color with a large fluffy white head. The aroma was typical macro sour malt. The flavor was typical macro sour malt with just a hint of nut in the undertones. If I had wanted a crappy BMC I would have bought one. Instead I was tricked by this piece of crap.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jun 2005
at 16:13
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4
Bottle, Kroger. New rating - it’s been a dozen years (good god), so time for a re-rate. Pours gold with only a dusting of a head. Aroma is grasses, minor floral hops, some skunk. Flavor is bitter, unpleasant grassiness, some skunk, bread. Dry and still blah. __________________ Old rating from 2005: Yellow, little head. Stinky rotten grass and skunk aromas. Flavor is the same. Nasty. Appearance:3, Aroma: 4, Taste:3, Palate: 3, Overall: 7
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jun 2005
at 20:22