8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draft pour pint at Crucible, Woodinville. Poured by Shawn. Listed as a regular IPA despite it's session strength. This tastes far from any session I've had though. It's rediculously smooth and flavorful. Very juicy, but has a balancing bitterness. Somewhere between grassy and citrus grapefruit. Mostly clean , shiny golden pour. A pretty good in-between on west coast and east IPA styles in my opinion. A solid IPA for when you work the long shift and you need about 4 of one solid, badass beer.
Tried
from Draft
on 24 Mar 2018
at 00:04
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Draft pour at Crucible, Woodinville. A dark reddish brown pour, cloudy, and no head. A nice spice to the aroma. Inviting. Some cinnamon. Flavor is a ton of funk up front, but it settles. A lot of dessert spices. Like ginger bread, or bran flavor going on. Warming, but gentle. Drinks surprisingly easy. Lingering cool vanilla and spice. There's things I love about this, and things I don't care for. A tasty winter beer. Truly unique. Enjoyed this.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Mar 2018
at 02:36
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draft pour at Crucible, Woodinville. A dark cola brown pour, active carb, almost no head. Sweet, but surprisingly subtle malts and dark fruit aroma. Flavor is warming for sure. Cherry, touch of chocolate? Rich bready malts. It's boozy, but at 10.3% I expected it to be. I don't need my scotch ale to be that big, but it is what it is. I like the cherry note to it, and the late lingering smokey note makes this a truly interesting beer. I can easily look past the booziness of this. I enjoyed it.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Mar 2018
at 02:22
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6
Draft pour at Crucible. First sip - what the.. read description - ahhh okay. Not used to this seasonal in this season, and couldn't even identify it as pumpkin from just tasting it blind. I see it now, but after I know. It's a true pumpkin, opposed to a pumpkin pie or spice heavy feature. Brett dominates this, and it's extra funky. Pukey note too. Not sure I'm on board with this much wild. I thought I was. Golden orange pour, no head. Aroma seems to be a saving factor to this beer. A nice brett saison like nose. Flavor is different. Some whiskey, a little sour too. Funk, pumpkin. Sounds horrible to me, but it was a little better than I expected. This wasn't for me, but making this beer work for me would be very difficult. Good qualities to it for sure.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Mar 2018
at 02:02
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draft pour at Crucible, Woodinville. Enjoyed in a taster try because their menu is full of big beers, this one being the softest of them all, basically. Refreshing front, pleasantly tart. A glowing purplish red pout with basically no head. Fruit heavy aroma that reminds me more of a cider than so a beer. Berry, apple, and the slightest hint of vinegar. Candy like berry constant, both sweet and sour. Fruit settles, and leaves a lingering wheat like finish. It's refreshing enough for sure. A solid imperial Berliner Weisse.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Mar 2018
at 01:56
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Clean and clear, bright and shiny golden pour, enjoyed on draft at Crucible, Woodinville. Big malty aroma, paired with some garden hops. Flavor is a strong bitter front, grassy hops, big bite, lingering aggressive malts. A little harsh for my taste, which is common in this series during my experience. Not bad, but this failed to be refreshing after 12 hours of work. Perhaps it's just not for me.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Mar 2018
at 01:40
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Brassy colour and bright, just a thin head. Grapefruity, floral hops, soft pale malts, decent bitterness, definitely citrus.
Tried
on 15 Jan 2018
at 18:21
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Touch of haze, thin head, light gold colour. Aroma isn’t that bright, but there’s a whack of chewy rye stuff...is that how buckwheat shows up? Some decent piney bitterness, fair bit of malt complexity.
Tried
on 15 Jan 2018
at 18:20
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Golden with slight haze, med head, weedy, but also a bit cheesy hop nose with mellow pale malts. Again a weedy hop, soft sweet pale malts, nice balance, good dose of bitterness.
Tried
on 15 Jan 2018
at 18:20
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Med brown. Thin head, not much on the nose, touch of fudgey chocolate. Light body and harsh malts, fair bit of bitterness. Ashtray. Not good balance.
Tried
on 15 Jan 2018
at 18:19