8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours deep blood orange into a Sam glass. Off-white head with excellent retention recedes leaving spot lacing to coat surface. Sweet resin and tropical fruit aromas. Medium bodied with sweet caramel upfront turning to bitter grapefruit and resin in the lasting finish.
Tried
on 10 Apr 2012
at 15:16
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
3rd December 2011
ChrisOs Early December Tasting. Light haze on this gold beer. Little off white head. Smooth semi dry palate. Fair bit of pale malt. Nice pine and citrus hops with a good balance between them. Semi dry finish with some bitter linger. Decent.
ChrisOs Early December Tasting. Light haze on this gold beer. Little off white head. Smooth semi dry palate. Fair bit of pale malt. Nice pine and citrus hops with a good balance between them. Semi dry finish with some bitter linger. Decent.
Tried
on 10 Mar 2012
at 06:32
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Super hazy, honey coloured copper and bright orange hues with a thinnish creamy tan head. Aroma of fresh hops, curacao, citrus, grapefruit and a bit of sugar. Medium-bodied; Assertive hops up front that fade to a cardboardie malt with very little else - perhaps some citrus and sugars. Aftertaste is very mild with only a little hops at first and then a big vast nothingness. Overall, a good smelling and tasting (at first) beer, but there is absolutely no depth and no complexity at all with this one. Still, nice to try it from Custom Brewcrafters (I used to live up there), but this isn’t really worth searching out. I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased from Oliver’s Beverage in Albany, New York on 18-November-2011 for US$6.99 sampled at home in Washington on 08-March-2012.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Mar 2012
at 22:55
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 4.5
Tap @ Chapter House, Ithaca. Clear, light golden appearance with a fluffy, off-white head. Lightly resiny, somewhat spicy, slightly piney hoppy, toasted malty aroma. Tangy, tangerine citrusy, bitter hoppy, cracker malty flavor.
Tried
from Draft
on 05 Mar 2012
at 21:50
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Black liquid with thick, full tan head in an English Pint glass. Respectable retention. Nose is espresso and roasted notes. I served this at cellar temperature and the nose was light and subdued. I never would have guessed how much flavor I was about to experience. Caramel malt, dark chocolate and a lingering coffee toward the end of the sip. I also pick up vanilla notes. Body is a bit thin however, for me it just means I can drink more. Overall, it is an enjoyable porter that I would purchase again. 22 oz. bottle from Table and Vine for $7.99.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Feb 2012
at 20:57
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
22 oz. bottle from Table and Vine for $6.99. Poured a curious hazy orange. Respectable head and lace. Pleasing aromas of grassy hops and bread like malt. You can notice the dry hopping of an English / Euro hop in the finish. It’s nicely balanced with caramel and bready malt. Medium in body with normal Co2. This brew was a nice change of pace for me personally however, just a bit above average overall.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Feb 2012
at 18:55
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bomber from Half Time. Pours dark copper with a 4 finger foamy/creamy beige head. All I can smell out of the foam is light roast malt and maybe something floral. Med body. The roast malt has that characteristic brown ale flavor. It does have some hop bitter, but the malt really controls this. It’s not sweet, just that the bitter comes more from malt than hop (I think). On the other hand there’s a fair amount of floral, so ... I just think the malt should be subserviant, not dominant.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Feb 2012
at 17:29
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Combination of draft and 22 oz. bottle. Draft at Sunset Grill. Pint glass shows off-white, fluffy head setting on deep mahogany liquid. Some lace. Nose of roasted malt aroma with piney and herbal hops. Flavors of charred malts, caramel and black malts and extremely resinous herbal hops. Lingering pine hops that goes on and on. Medium body. My personal taste has this being off balance with too much pine resin and I didn’t get chocolate malt, more burnt notes. The bottle didn’t impress me either.
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Jan 2012
at 21:05
6.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Sampled from a 22 oz brown bottle this beer poured a black color with a huge foamy brown head that lingered forever and left great lacing. The aroma was roasty and toasty malts with strong floral hops, grapefruit and resin. The flavor was roasty malts, cocoa, vanilla, moderate floral and fruity hops and a touch of caramel. The finish was long with cocoa and floral hops. Moderately full bodied. Decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Jan 2012
at 17:10
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle 22fl.oz. @ chriso [ oh6gdx birthday bash tasting ].Clear medium yellow orange colour with a average, frothy and open, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, caramel, moderate to heavy hoppy, orange, tangerine, grapefruit, light citrus. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20111203]
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Jan 2012
at 10:20