6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft at the brewery. Pours really dark. Tan cream head. Sweet plum aroma. Dark fruit taste with some plum and raisin. Finishes with bold, dark fruit with a slight hop finish. Pretty good.
Tried
from Draft
on 23 May 2014
at 22:03
5.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Draft. Pours golden with thin white head. A lot of corn and some bread on the aroma and flavor. Overall a plain beer that I will call, .. okay.
Tried
from Draft
on 23 May 2014
at 20:15
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Reviewed from notes.
This kolsch was poured into a pint glass more than enough times, but the night I had this for reviewing purposes, it was poured into a stange. However, the only difference I’ve ever noticed was the head lasted longer in the stange.
The appearance was a nice light golden colored yellow with a one finger white foamy head in both glasses. The lacing is about the same in both.
The smell had a light crackery graininess with some light spices in an herbal yet earthy sort of way.
The taste was a light sweet crackeriness and a nice light refreshing sort of spice indicating this would go well with the recent weather I’ve been having in Southeast Alaska. There was no aftertaste but left a decent dry finish.
On the palate, it sat fairly light and displayed a decent sessionable quality running about my mouth and tongue with a light carbonation about it.
Overall, I say this is a wonderful kolsch-styled beer by an American brewer well worthy of having again.
This kolsch was poured into a pint glass more than enough times, but the night I had this for reviewing purposes, it was poured into a stange. However, the only difference I’ve ever noticed was the head lasted longer in the stange.
The appearance was a nice light golden colored yellow with a one finger white foamy head in both glasses. The lacing is about the same in both.
The smell had a light crackery graininess with some light spices in an herbal yet earthy sort of way.
The taste was a light sweet crackeriness and a nice light refreshing sort of spice indicating this would go well with the recent weather I’ve been having in Southeast Alaska. There was no aftertaste but left a decent dry finish.
On the palate, it sat fairly light and displayed a decent sessionable quality running about my mouth and tongue with a light carbonation about it.
Overall, I say this is a wonderful kolsch-styled beer by an American brewer well worthy of having again.
Tried
from Can
on 21 May 2014
at 00:55
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Reviewed from notes.
I had this in a pint glass every time I’ve had it.
The appearance was a filtered looking orange to brown in color with a one finger white foamy head that lasts for about a minute and delicately dies into the body. The lacing is light but its there trying to spiderweb but slides for the most part.
The smell was apricot and delicately backed up by some wheatiness to it.
The taste was apricot sweet with the wheat coming back to assist in the taste. There is an apricot aftertaste and a dry finish.
On the palate, it sat about a medium and was fairly sessionable. The carbonation seemed okay for the style and for me.
Overall, I’m pretty sure Pyramid did what they wanted to as far as making an Apricot Ale. Try it if you see it, however, I’ve had this with plain cheesecake once and that was a stellar dessert, though I was extremely full afterwards.
I had this in a pint glass every time I’ve had it.
The appearance was a filtered looking orange to brown in color with a one finger white foamy head that lasts for about a minute and delicately dies into the body. The lacing is light but its there trying to spiderweb but slides for the most part.
The smell was apricot and delicately backed up by some wheatiness to it.
The taste was apricot sweet with the wheat coming back to assist in the taste. There is an apricot aftertaste and a dry finish.
On the palate, it sat about a medium and was fairly sessionable. The carbonation seemed okay for the style and for me.
Overall, I’m pretty sure Pyramid did what they wanted to as far as making an Apricot Ale. Try it if you see it, however, I’ve had this with plain cheesecake once and that was a stellar dessert, though I was extremely full afterwards.
Tried
on 21 May 2014
at 00:47
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Reviewed from notes.
This was actually poured into a pint glass several times but had it in a weizen glass for reviewing purposes and obviously for style purposes, the head did last longer which is good to Pyramid.
The appearance was a nice filtered looking yellow to orange color with the typical creamy white foamy two finger-ed head. The lacing is thick and foamy gracing the sides of the glass.
The smell had a good amount of banana with a delicate amount of cloves backing that up.
The taste was sweet and spicy through the previously mentioned flavors. There was a long lasting sweet banana flavoring in the aftertaste which lead to a long dry finish.
On the palate, it sat at/about a medium on the body with a good carbonation running about my mouth and tongue.
Overall, this fits the bill as a hefeweizen in my opinion and is quite a lovely brew to have this time of year.
This was actually poured into a pint glass several times but had it in a weizen glass for reviewing purposes and obviously for style purposes, the head did last longer which is good to Pyramid.
The appearance was a nice filtered looking yellow to orange color with the typical creamy white foamy two finger-ed head. The lacing is thick and foamy gracing the sides of the glass.
The smell had a good amount of banana with a delicate amount of cloves backing that up.
The taste was sweet and spicy through the previously mentioned flavors. There was a long lasting sweet banana flavoring in the aftertaste which lead to a long dry finish.
On the palate, it sat at/about a medium on the body with a good carbonation running about my mouth and tongue.
Overall, this fits the bill as a hefeweizen in my opinion and is quite a lovely brew to have this time of year.
Tried
on 21 May 2014
at 00:41
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
On tap at the Yard House, Houston. An unclear orange golden beer with just about no head. There’s lots of canned peaches on the nose, not so much apricots I think. Orange peel hints too. Tasteful apricot candy flavor with some canned peaches and orange peel. Medium body and a bit hard carbonation, quite dry. Peaches and syrup finish, still far from sweet and sticky. Sort of quenching this one, but also rather boring. 140516
Tried
from Draft
on 19 May 2014
at 14:16
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Palate affected by head cold, but mostly unimpressed with this. Faint fruit flavor, weak body, dull appearance. not much going on here.
Tried
on 14 May 2014
at 19:39
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
12 oz bottle, thanks to my brother in law. Aroma is like strawberry wafers along with some clove, pepper. Taste is similar--lots of seemingly fake strawberry--ice cream, wafers, Starburst all come to mind; finishes with some bitterness. Pours hazy orange with a large off-white soapy head that laces. Mouthfeel is sudsy, thin. Interesting beer, and much better out of a glass. I had it straight out of the bottle last weekend and remember it being a sweet cloying mess. This isn’t as bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Apr 2014
at 21:24
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 6
22oz Bottle, clear deep orange, with a full soapy white head. Papery bitter resiny hop aroma. Bitter resin hop flavors, Quite dry and quick pallate. Lacking character and body. Another "Macro-Micro" IPA
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Apr 2014
at 21:01
4.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 3
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
12 oz bottle. Aroma consists of cannabis, old rotten caramel malt (this isn’t expired, but it smells like it), butter, garbage. Pours clear copper with a long-sustaining off-white head with great retention, leaving lace. Taste is similar to a poorly made IPA, but a little bit off of even that. My first impression was of a beer in the low 3s, then it seemed to get worse, resulting in me giving it a 2.1 in score. It seemed to bounce back a little after it sat, surprisingly. This is still not good, however. I know Pyramid is capable of making good beer, but more often than not their output is very mediocre. Rarely are they this bad, though.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Apr 2014
at 18:29