6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Hazy dark amber with big off-white head. Aroma is malt, caramel, hop and toasted. Flavour is malt, caramel, toasted, hop, medium sweet and a little bitter.
Tried
on 16 May 2014
at 13:47
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pint at Lockdown in Chicago. 3.50 on special. Dark, hazy amber. Clean clear hop aroma but the hops are all over no one dominant hop flavor. Same in flavors. Clean and hop centric but the mix of hops doesn’t work for my tastes.
-- rated with beerbasher/winphone
-- rated with beerbasher/winphone
Tried
on 31 Mar 2014
at 16:49
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Sampler at Standard market. Only my second Tighthead beer in how many years? Well, this is worth the wait. Deceptively pale brown color, like an English BA or a Bigfoot. Thin but dogged layer of fizz on top. malty, nearly syrupy smell, with alcohol acknowledged. Taste is very full of malt, the toasty caramel Crystal kind. But it also has a big load of fresh hop bitterness. The alcohol starts to hit me after the third sip or so. Bitterness makes it more like an Imperial IPA, but them most of my barley wines are aged, not fresh from the tap. Shows a bit of autolyzed yeast.
Tried
from Draft
on 07 Mar 2014
at 12:39
8.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Shaker at Lockdown. The beer looks like a float with its head popping out the glass. Brown head with a super brown almost black body. Has a sticky-icky lacing. Aroma is bitter black malt, roast, earth, and light coffee. Its very well attenuated. Flavor is the same with a very well fermented beer with few leftover sugars and most of the flavors come off the bitter, earthy malts. Finish is very light with essence of earth and a bark-light bitterness. An awesome bitter brown ale, no chocolate from my POV.
Tried
on 08 Dec 2013
at 09:07
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Draft at Tap House Grill, Westmont. Finally get to pop the cap on another recent Chicago brewer. I found myself really liking this and thinking it was a Double IPA. Let me count the ways: a sudsy IPA head over a bright, brassy body. I thought I was just getting a snootful of Mr. Cascade Hopp and his lupalin friends, not having a full description of the beer in front of me. But definitely a very fresh hop beer. Bold taste combining pine, resin and citrus. Lemony aftertaste from the hops, but still matched by plenty of big malts.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Oct 2013
at 22:00
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Sampled from the tap at FOBAB 2012. Pours near black with a dark brown head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has a strong roasted malt with dark grains and just a bit of oats. Flavor has roasted malts with a hint of smoke? and some creamy sweet dark grains.
Tried
from Draft
on 20 Nov 2012
at 17:31
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Sampled from the tap at the Mundelin beer fest. Pours a clear deep gold with a near white head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has a surprising amount of grassy hops with a backbone of sweet grains and cereal. Flavor again is grassy with backing cereal note, pretty drinkable.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Jun 2012
at 11:13
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Sampled from the cask at the Mundelin beer fest. Pours a hazy deep amber that is slightly brown with a brown head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has deep bread and grain notes with a bit of dry and earthy notes. Flavor again has deep bread and grain notes with a hint of sweetness. Nice and smooth.
Tried
from Cask
on 12 Jun 2012
at 10:13
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Sampled from the tap at the Mundelin beer fest. Pours a clear pale gold with a white head that lasts throughout the beer. Aroma has sweet grains and a bit of earthiness backed by light fruit. Flavor has a lots of sweet grains and breads without much else.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Jun 2012
at 10:05
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Sampled from the tap at the Mundelin beer fest. Pours a hazy pale gold with a white head that lasts throughout the beer. Aroma has notes of grassy and floral hops that are backed by light grain. Flavor has grassy hops with a bit of resin backed by light flora and sweet grains.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Jun 2012
at 09:59