6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Draught at Toronado, San Francisco. Hazy golden. Aroma of peach and sulphur. Sweet and medium bodied with rounded mouthfeel. salty and dense with lots of aromatic hops and peach candy. Above medium bitterness.
Tried
from Can
on 17 Dec 2007
at 07:45
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Draught at Toronado, San Francisco. Clear golden, small head. Aroma of hay and bread. medium sweet with clean mouthfeel. Bready malt and dough under a blabket of hay-like hops. Salty finish. Very good flavours, but to make it really good the malt character should be softer.
Tried
on 17 Dec 2007
at 07:43
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at Toronado, San Francisco. Brownish amber, small head. Perfumy grapefruity nose. medium bodied with rounded mouthfeel. Some cookie malt and caramel, long very bitter finish. Very direct and assaulting. Lovely surface but not much depth.
Tried
from Cask
on 17 Dec 2007
at 07:40
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
I sampled both the Cascade & Chinook versions of this (they were two separate beers on draught) at Toronado in San Francisco, California. They were about the same, so here’s the overall rating: Copper coloured body with a perfect sized dense tan head. Aroma of nothing but hops - a good way to tell the difference between Chinook & Cascade is to have these side by side. Medium-bodied; Sharp pungent hoppiness in the mouth, coupled with a good malt backbone and more hoppiness to finish it out. Overall, a great sampling from these wet hopped beers - I really enjoyed the mouthful and the aroma of these. Nothing missing in my mind! I sampled both of these on draught from Toronado in SF on 27-October-2007.
Tried
on 18 Nov 2007
at 21:46
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
On tap at Lanesplitter in Berkeley, CA. It pours a clear amber with tan head. The aroma is vaguely malty mixed with pine hops. Overall the aroma is mild. The taste is malty with crystal malts followed up by dryer roasted malts. A nice pine hop bitterness jumps in to accompany the malts. It tastes like a little brother of Stone’s ABA. I also get some mild fruitiness.
Tried
from Draft
on 01 Nov 2007
at 22:47
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
On tap at the Magnolia Pub. Pours jet black with thin mocha head. The aroma is big with toffee, burnt malts and dark roasted coffee beans. The taste is inviting rich malt complexity. A solid burnt charred maltiness hits first with lighter roasted malts, dark roasted coffee beans, a hint of toffee and some licorice. At the finish a mild astringency enters to linger with the burnt malts and coffee notes. It smells more like toffee than it tastes.
Tried
from Draft
on 01 Nov 2007
at 22:46
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draft @ The Wet Hop Event at the Hayward Bistro. This beer pours a clear light copper with thin white head. The aroma is light with mild malt sweetness combined with fresh grapefruit hops and some spicy hops. I forgot how Cascade hops have a spicy side to them. The flavor has mild maltiness and both mild grapefruit hop flavor and bitterness. Nothing really stands out. It’s pretty smooth and even.
Tried
from Draft
on 01 Nov 2007
at 22:44
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask. I never know what to call these wet hop beers, but this one’s not overly hoppy. Rich amber beer with a nice off-white head. Nice piney, malt aroma. Rich caramel malt flavor with good pine and citrus. Nice balance. Body a little light. Lingering balanced malt, pine, and some fruitiness.
Tried
from Cask
on 20 Sep 2007
at 16:03
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Draft. Slightly hazy ruby beer with a cream colored head. Vinegary, woodsy aroma. Acetic, vinegary flavor with malt backing. Nice sourness, but becomes surprisingly smooth with lingering malt sweetness. Medium body. Although smoothless lingers, there’s still a longer acetic bite. Much better than to the 20-to-life.
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Aug 2007
at 15:29
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Draft. Rich amber beer with an off-white head. nice tart, lemony citrus aroma. Lemony, tart, oaky flavor. Lingering lemony tartness. medium body. Medium sour, not harsh, but refreshing.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Aug 2007
at 17:00