6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Keg pour at Powder Keg Beer & Chili Festival. Aroma is grassy, hay--all hops. Appearance is golden brown without sparkle, poor head retention and mild lacing. Taste is medium bitter. Palate is average carbonation with a little bit of a zing. Overall, there’s no complexity here, this is as advertised--"hoppy from start to finish." Since I’m not a huge fan of this (perhaps I’ve learned that I don’t really like Cascade hops), this beer wasn’t for me. But, if you like this sort of thing, you’re going to love this beer.
Tried
on 04 Oct 2015
at 21:39
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Keg pour at Powder Keg Beer & Chili Festival. Aroma is strong, dominant caramel with some fruit and cereal malt. Appearance is dark brown (like root beer) with mild sparkle. Taste is quite sweet, but not overly so. Palate is medium bodied, average carbonation, has liquor in the finish. Overall, this is exactly as advertised with caramel and malt sweetness dominating. Definitely more of a dessert beer or specialty beer.
Tried
on 04 Oct 2015
at 21:31
7/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Keg pour at Powder Keg Beer & Chili Festival. Aroma is rich chocolatey/cocoa with some smoke that is a little bit off (as a kid, I burned some bird droppings with a magnifying glass and it smells a little like that). Appearance is nice dark pour with effervescence reminiscent of a nitro, beige finger-width head and nice lacing. Taste is much like aroma--dominant chocolate/cocoa with that smoky flavor. Palate is medium bodied with creamy texture, average carbonation. Overall, much to like here but the slightly off smokiness is enough off putting that I would choose other oatmeal stouts ahead of it for sure.
Tried
on 04 Oct 2015
at 21:23
5.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Poured from bottle deep golden color with a fizzy white head. Aromas of bread yeast and mild spice. Taste is grass with a hint of fruit and caramel and a bitter finish. Not stellar. --- Beer merged from original tick of Mt. Uncanoonuc Cream Ale on 07 Sep 2015 at 17:24 - Score: 5
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Sep 2015
at 16:33
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
This was poured into a nonic pint glass.
The appearance was a nice black color with a one finger white to off white foamy head that dissipated within about forty five seconds leaving some light clingy stringy lacing.
The smell started off with a nice sweet to roasty coffee. Eventually, as it warmed, there was a nice sweet milk chocolate and a touch of bitter dark chocolate.
The taste took all of those previously mentioned flavors and blended nicely. The aftertaste was really nice as it combined all the previously mentioned flavors in a sticky fashion. A moderately quick sweet finish clings nicely.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fairly decent sessionability about it. Carbonation runs smooth and lets in a nice graininess from the oatmeal.
Overall, sweet stout or oatmeal stout. Whatever it is, I’d have again.
The appearance was a nice black color with a one finger white to off white foamy head that dissipated within about forty five seconds leaving some light clingy stringy lacing.
The smell started off with a nice sweet to roasty coffee. Eventually, as it warmed, there was a nice sweet milk chocolate and a touch of bitter dark chocolate.
The taste took all of those previously mentioned flavors and blended nicely. The aftertaste was really nice as it combined all the previously mentioned flavors in a sticky fashion. A moderately quick sweet finish clings nicely.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fairly decent sessionability about it. Carbonation runs smooth and lets in a nice graininess from the oatmeal.
Overall, sweet stout or oatmeal stout. Whatever it is, I’d have again.
Tried
on 08 Aug 2015
at 09:38
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Tap at the source. Brightly clear deep golden color with a small quickly dissipating bubbly white head. Nice bready pilsner with some spicy and floral hop. Light earth light astringency, somewhat mediocre.
Tried
from Draft
on 01 Aug 2015
at 16:18
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
On tap at the brewpub. Dark brown black color with a decent but short lived creamy off white head. Roasty chocolate with hints of fruit and earth. Nothing earth shattering but less flawed than the other beers I tried today.
Tried
from Draft
on 01 Aug 2015
at 16:15
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
On tap at the brewery. Slightly hazy amber copper color. Spicy earthy with a solid hit of toffee and caramel with just a touch of astringency. Not horrible.
Tried
from Draft
on 01 Aug 2015
at 16:05
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
On tap at the source. Hazy straw color with the biggest bubbles I’ve ever seen on a head of beer that dissipated almost instantly. Huge bready and light earthy notes with just a hint of lemony tartness. Smooth clean, lightly tart and hugely quaffable. My pint disappeared in nothing flat. I must try more of this style.
Tried
from Draft
on 01 May 2015
at 17:36
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
On tap at the source. Hazy copper color with a big bubbled frothy head. Holy spice rack Batman, there’s a heavy hand here somewhere. Earthy light lemon and huge almost pie spicing. Glad I only got a taster of this.
Tried
from Draft
on 01 May 2015
at 17:25