6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
22 fl oz bottle. Pours almost clear and golden amber with a lacing white head. Malty and fruity hoppy aroma. A bit towards the roasted side. Mild spiced, hoppy and light liqourice flavour towards slight wooden note. Spiced and bitter hoppy finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Sep 2008
at 09:44
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Hazy amber with medium off white head. Sweet aroma with mild hoppy and caramel notes. Sweet flavour with toasted malt, caramel and mild hoppy notes. Ends bitter. Warming alcohol towards the end.
Tried
on 11 Sep 2008
at 01:33
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle, 7.5%. Weak malty aroma, hint of caramel. Cloudy chestnut colour. OK spicy and malty flavour. Quite rough bitterness, but good flavour.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Sep 2008
at 13:47
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Light golden-amber beer with a whitish head. Grassy, earthy, light malt aroma. Grassy, malt, light earth flavor. Medium bodied. Lingering sweet malt and grass.
Tried
on 19 Aug 2008
at 16:23
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle. Hazy amber beer with a big dark cream colored head. Toffee, earth, caramel, and stone fruit aroma. Big stone fruit flavor with caramel. Medium body. LIngering stone fruit/summer fruit with toffee. There was this undertlying earthy, slightly ropey flavor that got bigger and more annoying and I’m pretty sure the bottle was lightly infected.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Aug 2008
at 18:18
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
From tap at Stone Bistro. Pours hazy/cloudy yellow with a white head. Mild and classic pilsner aroma. This goes into the flavour with a smoothening biscuit malt base. Light fruity and hoppy finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 07 Aug 2008
at 11:37
7.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Bomber from South Bay Drug. Opaque black color with a 3-finger dark tan head. Aroma is rather mild. Dark roasted malt with a touch of chocolate. Flavor is exquisite roasted malt, with some chocolate, and possibly some dark fruit. Body is hard to figure out, as the carbonation is so firm and frothy. Let’s call it full bodied. The finish is reasonably dry, and the mouthfeel is wonderful. Not harsh. Not sticky. A really good Baltic Porter.
Tried
on 08 Jul 2008
at 20:49
7.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Sort of an orange/amber color with a 3-finger beige head - rather frothy. Strong fruit aromas - almost like kiwi or strawberry with yeast spice. Body is medium and the carbonation is very frothy. It’s a bit astringent, a little bready, lightly yeasty, and fruity in a berry, but not citrus, way. Finish is not all that dry, but it fits the style. Pretty good drink. Kind of earthy/fruity.
Tried
on 07 Jul 2008
at 20:04
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Sample at San Diego Brewing Company. Pours a murky dark gold color with a minimal white head that diminishes to nothing. Top stringy ring of lacing with nothing under it. Sweet fruit and spices in the nose, plus a bit of malt. Light-bodied with a fruity character and flavors of spice and earthy malts. The finish is sweet and fruity leaving a sweetness behind. Decent overall.
Tried
on 07 Jul 2008
at 16:39
4.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bomber from South Bay Drug. Golden color with a multi-finger white head. Smells a bit grainy, and there’s not much bitter. Medium body with creamy, but sharp, carbonation. It’s a bit bready or yeasty. There’s a nice sensation in the mouth, but it is rather flavorless, except for the b/y. Finally in the finish there is the slightest suspicion of hop bitter. That said it drinks fairly well, but it just isn’t right as styled: "While the definition of “pilsner” is open to much debate in beer community, it generally refers to pale, hoppy lagers, ranging from 28IBUs and up. Pilsners that do not meet the specific characteristics of a German or Bohemian pils will be given this generic classification" Agreed it doesn’t meet the Czech or German style, but does it deserve the generic? Is it weak malt liquor or good pale lager? For me it didn’t improve with time and continued consumption.
Tried
on 06 Jul 2008
at 19:30