6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
From Growler. Certainly a good standard amber ale color. Rich, malty smell and a good caramel malt taste, just about equalized by bitterness. Well worth stopping for. Others may not think as highly of this, but I note how much the place has improved since they opened. This will still show room for improvement in the future, I hope.
Tried
from Growler
on 16 Sep 2007
at 13:00
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
From growler. Fresh hop smell with a sniff of malts behind it. Deep copper brown color. Taste shows light molasses cookie and a hint of ginger, overlaid with PNW hops, perhaps some German bitterness, too. I’m thinking some dry hopping involved here, but I’ll get a correction later on.
Tried
from Growler
on 16 Sep 2007
at 11:50
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
From growler. Growler seems to have gotten warm, so there’s a bit of sourness. But it carries a warm, malty beer smell. The color is just this side of amber, under a thin head. Taste is otherwise smooth and malty, but not overly sweet. Light fruity ale notes.
Tried
from Growler
on 16 Sep 2007
at 11:45
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Rated from growler, Sep 15, 07: Much improved under their new brewer, who’s dumped the extract and suger recipes from their brewery supplier. Look and smell is much more like style, blackish brown with a tan head. Smooth taste, touched only by a hint of sour cherry cordial that might have been due to a warm growler, but that’s also let some of the carbonation fizz out, so it’s close to a pub pull texture. Glad I got a chance to re-try it. Original rating, Sep 11 06: 4-3-5-2-9/2.3. Draft pint. When I visited, this was the only house brew they weren’t all out of. Suitably deep brown in appearance, thin brown head. First taste is rather sour, can’t decide if it’s intended as a staled stout or contaminated lines. Carbonated like a cola, which takes away from the mouthfeel. Coffee undertones manage to come up midway, followed by a bit of English hops.
Tried
from Growler
on 11 Sep 2006
at 12:03