Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Pour is a bright cloudy orange with no head at all. Aroma is cracker dry malts with some grassiness. Flavor is a dull dry malt with some earth and a minor sweetness. Finish is dry and bready. Decent English pale ale. I can imagine having a few of these after a trek on the moors.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Pour is a clearish brown with a small whit white. Aroma is a nice caramel malt. Flavor is a very nice earthy British malt with some black bread and toffee. This is a solid ESB and very true to the style.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Pour is a cloudy yellow with a white head. Aroma is hard to detect with some wheat malt and again not much else. Flavor is more of the wheat malt then anything. Some clove I guess if you use your imagination. No real banana esters like you would like. Not one of their best efforts.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Pour is a clear gold with a large white head. Aroma has a definite dry almost pils like malt. Flavor is more of those dry malts with a little grassy hop in there. Very kolsch like and refreshing.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Pour is a clear blonde with a average white head. Aroma is cracker like malts with some grassy hops. Flavor is a nice dry pils malt to start then comes a decent noble hop. A little light around the edges but still plenty flavorful and something you could drink all day.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Sample at Bridge Tap House & Wine Bar. The beer is a clear orange-amber color with a medium thin off-white head that dissipates quickly to an outer ring. Short strings of lacing. Aroma of roasted malt, caramel and hops. Light-bodied with flavors of caramel malt, roasted nuts and fruit. The finish is sweet with a malty aftertaste. Decent overall.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Sample at Bridge Tap House & Wine Bar. The beer pours a hazy dark amber color with a medium off-white head that recedes steadily. Stringy lacing on the glass. Roast malt, hops and rye in the nose. Light-bodied with flavors of spicy hops and toasted malt. The finish is mildly bitter with a rye bread and hops aftertaste. Decent all around.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Sample at Bridge Tap House & Wine Bar. Pours a slightly hazy yellow-gold color with a medium thin white head that evaporates steadily to an outer ring. Spotty lacing on the glass. Aroma of herbal hops and malt. Light-bodied with flavors of grassy hops and biscuit malt. The finish is mildly bitter with a floral hops aftertaste.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Draft at Bier Station in Kansas City, Missouri. The pour is clear copper with a one inch slightly dirty white head. The aroma is mild caramel malt sweetness and a general toasted cracker malt. The taste is nicely fresh and clean malt, the sweetness and the dry cracker. The palate is light to medium bodied, soft carbonation, and a soft mineral dry finish. Really well made.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Shaker pint draft at the Martin City Brewing Company in Martin City, Missouri. The pour is a hazed darker orange with a 1/2 inch slightly off-white head that leaves behind nice lace. The aroma is big fresh leafy hops - floral, citrus, resin along with caramel malt. The taste is the hops up front, fresh and bright. As with the nose, a nice blend of floral citrus resin, balanced nicely with the body of the caramel malt. The palate is light to medium bodied, lower level carbonation and a dry floral finish. Clean easy drinking beer.