Cask gravity at GBBF 2015 day 1. Light haze, golden orange coloured pour with a lasting loose off white head. Aroma is light pine needle hop, little caramel. Flavour is grassy, piney hop, light caramel, biscuits malt. Palate is semi sweet, moderate carbonation, goof condition.

Cask pour from tap. Pours hazy amber with a thin lacey head. Aromas of bread sweet malt and a hint of spice. Taste is similar sweet with a nice lingering spicy bitterness.

I have been on recent maibock kick so although it has slipped into June I’m enjoying this as my long weekend begins. Hazes amber pour with nose of dry hops and caramel. Tastes of faint dusty hops, caramel, toasted malt, vanilla, touch floral, and cherry. Fine medium palate. Fresh tasting and nice.

Pours hazy gold into a shaker. Bright white head with good retention recedes leaving soapy lacing. Stale malt aromas. Thick with sour malt and hot caramel front to back. Lasting nasty toffee finish.

650 ml bottle purchased at Merrimac Liquors. The bottle has no date anyplace on it. The appearance is a totally cloudy, dark, dirty orange color with some head floating on top. Aroma is lightly floral with some fruity hints from the yeast.

The grain and yeast make the mouthfeel chewy and full. The flavor starts with the grain with thick yeast presence. Finish shows floral and bitter pine like hops that gives a medium level of lingering bitterness. I feel like this is a difficult hybrid style to pull off. It’s not an IPA and it’s for sure not a saison. Overall it’s not very cohesive, the flavors are in battle with themselves.

22 oz. bottle purchased at my local Market Basket. Clear gold color with thin lasting head poured into a lager glass. Aroma is sweet grain, honey and wheat. The flavor is exactly as you would come to expect: pale malts, grain body that is light with a mild carbonation level. The German lager yeast strain can be found toward the back of the sip with a very light grass note. Honestly this brew is exactly what it should for the style, easy drinking summer thirst quencher.

Pours murky caramel into a shaker. White soapy head with good retention recedes leaving spider lacing. Bubblegum and banana aromas. Dry and sweet with bubblegum and clove upfront turning plastic before the medium length finish.

Pours a rich copper from a tap. Aroma is redolent with caramel, vanilla/oakiness, some peat, flavor is the same with a very pleasant peaty smokiness just hinted at in the background. Good beer.

On tap at Uno’s, Shelbourne, VT.
This was poured into a pint glass.
The appearance was a dark brown color with a slim bar pour’s kind of head that dissipated within less than thirty seconds leaving some light stringy lacing sliding into the beer.
The smell had a super hefty amount of bitter coffee beans and balanced with a decent sweet molasses - esque, perhaps syrupy sort of dark fruits.
The taste took the bitter coffee and it came across fairly roasty. A semi-wet yet dark fruity aftertaste leads to a dry finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a decent sessionability about it. The carbonation was somewhat subdued but still good for the style and for me.
Overall, I say this was a pretty good coffee porter.

Location: 12 oz can from Nikki's Liquors, 4/6/15

Aroma: The aroma is bready malts, with some herbal and spice notes.
Appearance: It pours an unclear gold-orange color with a sheeting white head and mid-heavy lace.
Flavor: The taste is similar, bready malts, lightly sweet, spice and herbal light bitterness.
Palate: The body is light-medium, fairly clean, average carbonation, and a lightly dry finish.
Overall Impression: This is decent. Not something I'd rush out for again, but a decent offering none-the-less.