7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Tap, City Beer Store. This beer pours coffee black with a tight off-white head. The aroma is mild but clean. There’s light coffee, roast, fruit, floral/grassy hops and grain. The beer is smooth and light, quite good for a schwarzbier. The flavor starts mildly sweet and finishes dry. It’s a refreshing, drinkable beer.
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Apr 2010
at 19:43
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 6
This was served a bit too cold in a nice restaurant in Fort Bragg, but it warmed up nicely and showed off some good, different (for me, anyway) hop flavors. It’s a deep golden beer with a good head. The nose is mostly lemony hops. The taste is more bracing than I was expecting. There’s a lot of bitterness, and it gets into the Imperial end of the IPA pool with its intensity of flavor. The hop notes are still mostly lemon with some pine but little floweriness as I was expecting. (Just tried it again by City Beer Store 4/9/2010)
Tried
on 09 Apr 2010
at 20:38
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
On tap at Toronado
Appearance: Dark brown with a nice tan head and some lacing left in the glass
Aroma: Dark fruits, caramel
Taste: Dark malts and fruits, caramel, chocolate
Very nice beer, light and refreshing.
Appearance: Dark brown with a nice tan head and some lacing left in the glass
Aroma: Dark fruits, caramel
Taste: Dark malts and fruits, caramel, chocolate
Very nice beer, light and refreshing.
Tried
from Draft
on 04 Apr 2010
at 12:10
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
On tap at Toronado
Appearance: Dark brown with a off-white head and some lacing
Aroma: Pine, bitter hops and toasted malts
Taste: Bitter hops, pine resin and toasted malts
Very nice ESB
Appearance: Dark brown with a off-white head and some lacing
Aroma: Pine, bitter hops and toasted malts
Taste: Bitter hops, pine resin and toasted malts
Very nice ESB
Tried
from Draft
on 04 Apr 2010
at 11:44
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Tap, City Beer Store. Glowing medium gold in color with a small white head that fades mostly. Looks thick and rich for a lager. Not a big smell, but it’s all clean lager yeast and rich, fresh grain. Flavor is mostly dry with grassy hop notes. The yeast flavor dominates when the beer is cold, but as it warms up, the wonderful grain flavor comes out more. Moonlight makes the best light, pale malt flavors I’ve ever tasted. The mouthfeel is relatively thick and luxurious for a pale lager. The beer drinks very cleanly, but the feel is still quite full. Very drinkable as with all of Moonlight’s beers.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Apr 2010
at 21:45
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
@Magnolias –on cask-pours an off white head and amber color. Aroma is orange/resin. Taste is orange rind bite, some medium malt.
Tried
from Cask
on 08 Mar 2010
at 18:20
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Draft. Amber beer with an off-white head. Light pine and light citrus aroma. Pine and light citrus flavor with some earthiness. Good hoppy flavor. Medium bodied. Good bitterness. Pine and earth lingers with light citrus.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Mar 2010
at 13:48
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Three year old aged Toast on tap. I’ve never had this beer fresh, so I can’t give a good comparison. On that topic, I would love to cure that error in my experiences. I found this aged version to be delicate and complex. The caramel malt flavor is sublime, incredible bready notes, lightly toasted (of course), mix with lingering floral hops. The feel was silky smooth and light. The beer was relatively light in color with a good head and lacing. I tried to let it warm up a bit because it was served colder than I would have preferred. It really just had one of the most tantalizing and light sweet flavor profiles that I’ve ever tasted. Excellent beer that I will be on the lookout for from now on.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Mar 2010
at 01:03
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
From tap at Monks Kettle. Pours cloudy orange with a small, white and lacing head. Aroma is dry thyme/basil and generally spiced. Mild chemical to spiced dry flavoured touch. Herbal. Dry and slight bitter finish. Lasting herbal impression into the far finish. Dry lasting impression.
Tried
from Draft
on 19 Feb 2010
at 00:09
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
From tap at Jupiter, Berkeley. Pours clear and golden orange with no head. Aroma is wooden, acidic, vague acetone and notes of overripe fruit. Sweet and fruity flavoured. Light citric note. Slowly going more acidic towards the finish. Nice sourish end.
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Feb 2010
at 06:15