6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
12 oz bottle. Pours a hazy yellow-orange color, white head. Aroma is sweet with wheat, yeast, and spice. Flavor is citrus with wheat. Pretty well balanced taste, though nothing spectacular. Nice beer to consume on a warm day.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jun 2008
at 17:24
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle from Whole Foods Market in Charlottesville. Pours a copper color with a quickly diminishing fizzy head. Malty toffeish aroma. Taste is caramel malt, graininess and a metallic bitterness. Thin body.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Jun 2008
at 21:22
5.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Sampled at the Northern Virginia Summer BrewFest (2008). Pours a hazy golden color. The aroma is full of spices, grains. The flavor is extremely spicy, lemon, grass, malts. The spices almost completely overpower the rest of the beverage, which is a shame.
Tried
on 23 Jun 2008
at 01:43
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Sampled at the Northern Virginia Summer BrewFest (2008). Pours a copper color. with a white head. Aroma is pine hops. Flavor is amazing. It is full of citrus notes, hops, and is extremely crisp and has a fantastic bitter finish.
Tried
on 23 Jun 2008
at 00:27
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Clear copper amber body with a medium creamy tan head. Sweet floral hop aroma with light caramel. Sweet citrus and floral hop flavor, more light caramel and a light bitter finish. Medium body with moderate carbonation and an almost creamy ending.
Tried
on 10 Jun 2008
at 19:53
5.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 4
Hmm... Full Circle label. I guess I’m supposed to rate it here? Light amber pour with medium head and unexpectedly.... floaties! Crisp and slightly tart grainy aroma. Grainy, with some bitterness and definite notes of burning hair. Bottle from Wine Warehouse in Charlottesville.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Jun 2008
at 17:55
2.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 2
Texture 2
Overall 1
Advertised as a IIPA at the Bocktown. Clear and slightly darker than the ubiquitous pale lager. Creamy head. Turns tea froth after a few minutes. Perfumery on the olfactory. Aroma of hops and of course, piny spruce hops. thick mouth coating syrupy palate. Way too much alky for this lager lover. Virtually no carbonation. Comes across like any other barley wine. Finish is bitter medicine like a DPA. On style.
Tried
on 07 Jun 2008
at 16:03
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 4
Texture 8
Overall 4.5
FAIL!!! Bottle from Wine Warehouse in Charlottesville (I think). Cola brown pour with faint lacing and no head. Aroma of cream, coffee, chocolate and brown sugar. So far so good. Big oakiness in the taste, a hint of whisky, and definite notes of... rotting cabbage! Fairly strong too. Foul, and in a bad way. Drain pour today... I’ll re-rate next year’s batch.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jun 2008
at 23:38
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Throwdown. I like this alot. Smooth malty and with alot of roast and sweet caramel chocolates. Full bodied. Luscious is a good word here. Dark brown/black color.
Tried
on 01 Jun 2008
at 15:54
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Bottle from Wine Warehouse in Charlottesville. Pours straw yellow with a medium head. Faint aroma is malty with a citrus bite. Taste of yeast, wheat, grapefruit.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 May 2008
at 18:06