Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Sample at GTMW 24, 8/10/24. New brewery! Brewery #2304, USA #1899, MO #25. Last GTMW rate, so, 47 for the festival. Couldn't quite make 50. Clear gold, large white head, average retention. Aroma of grapefruit, vinous, pale malt. Taste is grapefruit, pine, pale malt.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
On tap at the brewery. Pours black with small beige head that lasts. The aroma is cocoa, licorice, roast. Slick body, dark chocolate, roast, cracker, licorice, boozy finish, decent.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
On tap at the brewery. Pours orange gold with small white head that lasts. The aroma is pine and citrus. Slick body, grapefruit, bubblegum, pine, lingering bitterness, good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
On tap at the brewery. Pours orange gold with medium white head leaving sticky lacing. The aroma is pine and resin. Slick body, grapefruit, pine, lingering bitterness, good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
On tap at the brewery. Pours a dark brown with small beige head that lasts. The aroma is pine and roast. Slick body, licorice, cocoa, roast, lingering bitterness, decent.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
On tap at GTOM. Pours a cloudy gold with medium white head that lasts. The aroma is is cereal wheat and peach flesh. Light body, wheat, dough, stone fruit, light tartness, very good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
On tap at the brewery. It's a gold with no sparkle, thin head and no lacing. Aroma is pine, citrus and something reminiscent of a vitamin(?). Taste is resin pine and light fruit. Mouthfeel is light-to-medium bodied with smooth texture, soft carbonation and bitter finish. Overall, a west coast IPA but not particularly strong.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
On tap at the brewery. It's a hazy dark yellow-light brown with no sparkle, thin cap of off-white head and no lacing. Aroma is moderately strong pineapple. Taste is strong pineapple. Mouthfeel is light side of light-to-medium bodied with thin texture, soft carbonation and finish as taste. Overall, strong pineapple so they nail what they were going for but unidimensional.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
On tap at the brewery. It's an opaque black with no sparkle, ring of off-white head and no lacing. Aroma is subtle roasted earthy malt and European hops. Taste is roasted malt perhaps with a hint of maple? Mouthfeel is light-to-medium bodied with smooth texture, soft carbonation and finish as taste. Overall, really weak (virtually absent) maple almost has me wondering if I was given the Irish Stout instead...
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draft at source. Brown reddish beer color. The beer hides the 8% well, which is easier to do with all the spices. The base beer was a bit flabby and mostly a vehicle for spices. A friend at the table thought this was a pumpkin beer.