6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle, 22oz. A hazy, amber colored beer topped by a small, white head leaving some lacings. The aroma is quite banana-ish and bubblegum-ish at first, and actually, the berries or the malts doesn’t shine through much at all. After letting it heat up a bit, there’s some though. Full body, with pleasant carbonation and a little warmth. The flavor has a very pleasant berrynote in the back, with some pale malts and sweetness, as well as, I think, a tad too much banana and bubblegum. Cloves too actually, making me wonder if they accidentially picked the wrong yeast for this one. Anyway, it’s a pleasant beer, and also quite refreshing, at least when cold. But tart, that’s not my impression. 130701
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jul 2013
at 18:47
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 3
From a bottle carbonated clear golden with a white head aroma of citrus taste of orange and some pine overtones. Bitter on the palate
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Jun 2013
at 19:06
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
From a 12 bottle shared in Gardiner, MT. Pours a hazy deark gold with a thick off white head. Piney hop aroma. Some sharp citrus hop flavors. Very bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Jun 2013
at 18:55
8/10
Tried
on 18 Jun 2013
at 17:22
8.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 9
From a 355ml bottle on 17/6/2013. Pours a cloudy dark golden with a small to medium head. Has a very pleasant aroma of soft musk, flowers and a touch of grapefruit. The flavour is impressive with lots of sweet citrus (particularly orange and mandarin) and honey, against a thick caramel malt background. While the sweetness just wins out in the end, there is a satisfying, slightly tangy, grapefruity hop bitterness at the back which gives it real balance. The palate borders on creamy and the carbonation is medium. Presents more as a standard IPA than an imperial, but is exceptionally tasty none the less. A very nice surprise given their stock IPA was fairly pedestrian.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Jun 2013
at 04:23
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Muddy Copper Color, Good Foamy Head Leaves Lots Of Lacing. Rye, Sweet malt, Hoppy Bitter Finish. Watery Body. Decent.
Tried
on 14 Jun 2013
at 19:10
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
I’ve been avoiding rating this since so many bottle on the shelves . . . well just about everywhere store this wrong and it’s either difficult or impossible to tell how old it is until you open it. Well here’goes. 12oz bottle pours deep gold with copper hues and a bit of haze supporting a thin near white head. The modest aroma has spicy almost anise like hops mixing with some floral hops and faint malt sweetness. The taste is tame for an IPA with spicy and floral sort of seeming like noble hops that are both modestly bitter and modestly flavor. Behind the hops is a nearly clean mild sweet maltiness and almost a biscuit malt quality. Old school IPA that I do not plan to seek out again.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Jun 2013
at 20:16
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bomber from Total Wine in Sacramento, CA. Pours dark copper with a creamy/fizzy white head. Blackberries dominate the aroma. Med + body. Flavor is tart, with lots of mixed berry. There are earthy suggestions of the Belgian yeast. When the main flavors leave, it seems to become a wheat beer. I really like the middle, but the finish not so much. Maybe I’m wrong, but I think barley is the way to go for a really good fruit beer.
Tried
on 03 Jun 2013
at 17:25
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
12oz bottle. Murky amber-brown body. Foamy off-white head. Toffee, amber malt tones, some Christmas fruitcake/wassail action. It’s not really a great beer by any mean, but it manages to approximate the style well enough. Rich and malty, a spiced ESB.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jun 2013
at 22:27
5.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
12 oz bottle. Pours an orange brown with light bubbly head. Aromas of roasted malts and resin. Similar flavor with a big bitter punch.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 May 2013
at 17:08