Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Draught @ the brewpub. Rich golden-orange with frothy off-white head, very little, almost no aroma, adequate carbonation, bitter piney malt taste, thin body, long finish. Decent IPA.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Draught @ the brewpub. This was difficult to categorize; based on the definition it's more akin to fruit beers, but the experience is like an IPA. Clear golden with creamy off-white head, faint strawberry aroma, medium bitter lightly piney taste with hint of strawberry, thin body, long bitter finish. Mango is not perceptible at all.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Draught @ the brewpub. Fainty cloudy dark brown with ruby highlights, large foamy tan head, faint coffee aroma, medium carbonation, bitter mocha taste with woodsy flavor, smooth body, long bitter finish. A nice stout, could be fuller in body though.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Draught @ the brewpub. Faintly cloudy orange with foamy light beige head, faint honey aroma, high carbonation, medium bitter lightly piney taste with honey flavor, thin body, long bitter finish. Decent brew.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Draught @ Lithology taproom. Hazy dark orange with small creamy white head, very faint salty aroma, low carbonation, lightly salty sour lemon juice taste, thin body, medium finish. Decent brew.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5
Tap at the brewpub - apparently what makes a this "british style" is that it is an ipa that tastes strongly of diacetyl - dang shame, as the malt and hop profile is quite nice, and I like the texture of unfiltered beer, but that butter taste in my beer is an immediate turn-off.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Tap at the brewpub - dark amber - more of a hoppy american red/red ipa - none of the roasty dark malt and green hop interplay you expect from the style - that doesn’t necessarily make it a bad beer - moderate innocuous malt sweetness and assertively bitter hops - not much else, but what is present tastes fine enough while hanging out with family this damp winter eve - hard to hate, but also hard to love.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Shaker pint draft at the brew pub in Patchogue, New York. The pour is a hazed cloudy orange golden, with not much of an off white head. The aroma is initially faint, though picks up some floral, biscuit and sweet maltiness as it warms a bit. The taste is the nose, floral along with sweet biscuit malt. There is a bit of daicetyl in the finish that didn’t detract too much. Palate is medium bodied, soft active carbonation. Nice enough.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Tap at the brewpub - fairly standard/straightforward, clean aroma of pils malt, grassy noble hops, and a touch of honey - fairly full-bodied for a pils - quite bitter throughout, with floral, herbal character from the euro hops, but it tastes like they threw some american hops in there as well, making it taste, at times, like an APA made with pils malt - some light honey sweetness on the back end - decent, but not as clean and refreshing as I like my pilseners to be.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Tap at the brewpub - this is a pretty nicely balanced ale for these folks - hazy reddish orange, with a thick foam on top - fairly creamy in the mouth - the flavor is sweetish up front, but this quickly makes way for some strong esters, followed closely by some spruce and a juniper-like bitterness, complimented well by some lightly peppery hops - the alcohol is quite well-hidden - a nice one from this brewer.