Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Rating found in old notebook 2014. Pour is darker than your typical ubiquitous pale yellow lager, more brownish. No head, just a froth on top. Aroma is slightly sweet. Flavor has a slight tinge of bitterness. Interestingly industrial background qualities in there. Finish is non offensive, quite friendly and lagerlike. This beer can easily be enjoyed, it lacks any hints of that tough Iron City. Overall OK, but the taste leaves something to be desired after the looks of this beer were so darkish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Mini growler thanks to Dan. Pours a clear copper reddish color with a medium white head. A huge spicy sweet nose. The flavor is big sweet sugary spicy notes, cinnamon, huge cloves. Wow. Over the top. This should have an abv of 15 to be this big. But a fun beer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottle, not too bad, a little more impact compared to yer standard fest but above average fer sure. Good co2 goes, down OK with significant interest. Typical fest brew from old latrobe. Has many of the positive attributes of a good fester.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 1.5
Bottle marketplace. Rare beer. A little more orange than a pale lager. Big dull IPA impact on the nose. Look, let me tell you I hate IPA so reverse my numbers if you like it. First taste? A terribly bitter hop jaw smash nastily on style, bordering on double IPA territory. Yes, alky in yer face with the tongue twisting overly bitter pine tar & green grapefruit rinds, everything these hops are s’posed to be into. Quite a personality. You get your money’s worth of eye opening gullet filling excitement with this brew, especially if you are a lager lover, WHEWW. If you like IPA, and come across this, take it in for a one time beer tasting experience. Macro IPA, right out of old latrobe’s glass lined tanks. Thank you melanie.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Sampled on draft at Smokin’ Joe’s this beer poured a dark brown color with orange highlights and a medium sized foamy tan head that left decent lacing. The aroma was malty and toasty with a bit of fruit and a crystal malt presence. The flavor was malty with dark fruit, bread and crystal malt. Medium length finish. Medium body. Meh.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 4
Sampled on draft at Max’s Allegheny Tavern this beer poured almost black with a large foamy tan head that left good lacing. The aroma was sweet cola with hints of anise and dark fruit. The flavor was malty and a bit woody with notes of cola and dark fruit. Medium length finish. Medium body and smooth. Better than I expected
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Refrigerated 12 oz. aluminum can poured into glass. Almost clear, light body, lower carbonation. Taste is light malt.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Tap industry. Nice lighter colored beer. Smells like grapefruit juice. Taste is simply nice fresh grapefruit soda. So easy, so fun. I need to get a sixer of this, it was gone before I knew it. Really good example of a grapefruit shandy.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2.5
Can at the DC March Tasting. Clear pale whitish yellow with off-white head. Aromas of cardboard, malt, corn. Tastes of malt, corn, wheat, cardboard. Light body with a dry finish.