7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Poured up on tap at the brewery where it exhibits a rosy red amber body that supports a light tan colored head. The mild aroma offers up some winter spices, sweet prune and fig fruity esters and a thin ring of vague hoppy resiny bitterness. The taste has a lot going on with a mix of rye spicy twang, resiny pine hops, big winter spices and a modest degree of sweet dark fruity esters in the background. The spiciness starts to pick up a bit of a cinnamon and ginger blended with a mild rye sort of note. This is a nice hoppy winter sipper.
Tried
from Draft
on 30 Aug 2014
at 15:33
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Poured up on tap at the brewery where it exhibits a clear copper body that supports a near white head. The aroma offers up mostly resiny hops that have pine and a spiciness going on. The taste is nice with hoppy goodness that has pine sliding into a rye twang note. This has big ole’ resiny hop goodness going on that’s right in your face (and your mouth). Pretty solid.
Tried
from Draft
on 30 Aug 2014
at 15:11
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 4
Texture 8
Overall 5
Poured up on tap at the brewery where it exhibits a clear copper body that supports a near white head. The aroma offers up a bit of pine hoppiness blended and sweetened with crystal malts. The taste is a sort of buttery resin pine hop mix that is not working too well for me. It even gets candy like with a vague sort of fruitiness. This smells decent but the flavor is off.
Tried
from Draft
on 30 Aug 2014
at 15:09
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pale Lager rating #100, :(
Poured up on tap at the brewery where it exhibits a nice crystal clear gold body that supports a white head of foam that leaves behind some nice lacing. The modest aroma offers up some ester fruity lager notes as well as corn on the cob goodness. The taste delivers a pleasing mix of bitter hops and sort of herbal hops, floral hoppiness and then creamed corn notes sliding into modest sweet lagery esters. It ends with a nice lingering hoppiness. Solid hop forward and crisp tasting lager.
Poured up on tap at the brewery where it exhibits a nice crystal clear gold body that supports a white head of foam that leaves behind some nice lacing. The modest aroma offers up some ester fruity lager notes as well as corn on the cob goodness. The taste delivers a pleasing mix of bitter hops and sort of herbal hops, floral hoppiness and then creamed corn notes sliding into modest sweet lagery esters. It ends with a nice lingering hoppiness. Solid hop forward and crisp tasting lager.
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Aug 2014
at 22:33
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Keg at Acoustic Ales, SD, 19/04/14. Clear golden amber with a moderate off white covering. Nose is toasted malt, citric peel, light spice, bitter orange, bread dough. Taste comprises orange peel, tangy citricana, grassy twang, mandarin, light spice, soft bread notes. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close. Ok stuff.
Tried
from Can
on 27 May 2014
at 13:19
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Cask ... yup a 10% Quad on cask, at Acoustic Ales tasting room, SD, 19/04/14. Opaque dark mahogany brown with a moderate light beige covering that retains well. Nose is bubblegum, toffee, spice, yeast esters, banana. Taste comprises fruit loaf, toffee, boozey tones, dates, yeast esters, dark fruit rinds, light spice. Full bodied, soft carbonation, boozey fruit laden curtain call. Ok quad, a little heavy going at times and a brave choice for cask dispense but they just about pulled off a drinkable sipper here!
Tried
from Cask
on 21 May 2014
at 12:07
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Keg at Acoustic Ales tasting room, SD, 19/04/14. Clear reddish amber with a good sized off white covering. Nose is citric pith, bitter orange, rye bread, caramel malt, hops. Taste comprises light pine, orange pith, pink grapefruit, caramel, bubblegum. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close laced with subtle hop bitteress. Decent hoppy amber - red IPA, in fact an IPA, amber non style!
Tried
on 19 May 2014
at 12:58
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Keg at the Acoustic Ales tasting room, SD, 19/04/14. Clear rich golden with a moderate off white covering that dissipates to a swirl. Nose is toffee, spice, bubblegum, banana, yeast esters. Taste comprises much the same. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close with a suggestion of booze. Decent Belgian number.
Tried
on 17 May 2014
at 06:36
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask at Acoustic Ales, SD, 19/04/14. I too a picture of the beer list but this was the one and only beer that didn’t list an ABV - doh! Clear pale golden with a good sized off white covering. Nose is punchy hops, spice, bread dough, bitter citrics, grapefruit, orange pith. Taste comprises nice dank hop tones, pissy dank NZ goodness, grapefruit, bitter citric rind, toasted malt. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi aggressive hop bitterness. Top draw IPA, and they pulled this off on cask!
Tried
from Cask
on 15 May 2014
at 13:59
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask at Acoustic Ales, SD, 19/04/14. Black with a moderate tan covering. Nose is big roast, orange peel well evident, spice, dark chocolate, toffee fudge. Taste comprises roast malt, liqourice, molasses, mineral bite, hint of aniseed, orange rind, chocolate. Medium boied, soft carbonation, smooth and massageing on the palate, a little dryness in the close. Solid stuff, a brave step to put a 9.5% stout on cask but this one worked pretty well!
Tried
from Cask
on 14 May 2014
at 14:15