6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
2005 brew, tasted on tap at the brewery in July 2006: Dark chestnut colour. The aroma shows chocolate, toffee, light fruit with a background fudgey maltiness. Smooth, sweet, with fruitcake, nuts and roast in this mellow (for the style) but surprisingly complex brew. Fruity, lightly chewy finish. Good, well-made, intro Baltic.
Rating from Jul ’03: Black. Aroma shows lots of hops, roast, black chocolate and malt, with faint nuts. Lively body features brown malts, chocolate, toast, orangey hoppiness and a dry, woody finish. Ar 8 Ap 5 F 7 P 4 O 15 = 3.9
Rating from Jul ’03: Black. Aroma shows lots of hops, roast, black chocolate and malt, with faint nuts. Lively body features brown malts, chocolate, toast, orangey hoppiness and a dry, woody finish. Ar 8 Ap 5 F 7 P 4 O 15 = 3.9
Tried
from Draft
on 24 Nov 2000
at 22:58
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bright amber colour. Slightly metallic, crackerlike malt aroma is fairly generic. Bland flavour - stale brown bread, hints of caramel, a shank in the back, pencil lead. Man, I used to really dig this stuff. This was 8-10 years ago and the beer had hops, damnit. Today, more of what you’d expect from an amber - bland bland bland. Actually has decent yeast complexity and malt character for the style, but this was one of the beers I really got excited about. And now I don’t.
Tried
on 24 Nov 2000
at 22:56
5.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
For a mainstream lager it's not that bad, really. In fact, the general (former) quality of this beer I think laid the groundwork for the palates of Portland to embrace quality beer in the way that they do.
Tried
on 30 Jun 2000
at 14:35