6.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Draught at the Bridgeport Brewery. Lovely fine, long-lasting head. Smooth, creamy mouth. Woody flavor with coffee. Rather dull and bland. Slightly sweet, and a bit tart as well. Flavor can’t keep up with appearance.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Sep 2009
at 18:40
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draught at the Bridgeport Brewery. Fruity, chocolaty aroma. Slightly woody and smoky flavor, with chocolate and a bit of coffee. Rich and tasty, with a pleasant fruity tanginess.
Tried
on 13 Sep 2009
at 18:37
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7
Cask at the Bridgeport Brewery. Faint aroma of dark fruit and caramel malt. Tart flavor, with cherry and light hops, mostly bittering hops. Cask version was rather dead. Here again, the keg version was much better, but this is the one that got rated.
Tried
from Cask
on 13 Sep 2009
at 18:36
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask at the Bridgeport Brewery. Slightly cloudy dark gold color with lace. Very fruity citrus aroma; nice hops. Not very fragrant, but nice. Light malt flavor, fragrant grassy hops, pine, reasonably bitter finish. This alone of the cask beers was better than the keg version, which was very cardboardy.
Tried
from Cask
on 13 Sep 2009
at 18:33
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draught at the Bridgeport Brewery. Decent caramel backing, with cherry. Well-balanced bitterness. Hop level relatively low. Not really exciting but the balance makes it very drinkable.
Tried
on 13 Sep 2009
at 18:31
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Cask at the Bridgeport Brewery Fruity, somewhat sour, with a peppery hop finish. Citrus and piney hop aroma. Not very flavorful, and the cask version lacks spunk and crispness.
Tried
from Cask
on 13 Sep 2009
at 18:29
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at GBBF 2009 ....Amber ... swet pine hop nose ... dry hop ... quite dull ... soft little grapefruit in linger.
Tried
from Cask
on 31 Aug 2009
at 14:18
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
I started my drinking sessions at the Great British Beer Festival 2009 with three IPAs from USA. All of them were served in a one-third pint glass from gravicask at USA & Rest of the World Bar provided by Bièrs Sans Frontières. This one had a remarkably clear, golden-amber body with a bubbly ring around the rim of the glass. Plain and pleasant hoppy to the nose. Initial taste of fruity hops followed by notes of pine-resin developing towards a fairly dry bitter finish. Rounded mouthfeel. Typical for the style, I would say (GBBF, Earls Court, London 04.08.2009).
Tried
from Cask
on 25 Aug 2009
at 07:56
5.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottle: Light golden pour with very little haze. A thin white head. Nose is crisp and wheat-filled with just a little sour cherry. Nice smell, really. The flavor retains that wheaty feel, but loses the crispness and fruit tones. Wait, there it is... a faint cherry note in the very back. Awww, too little too late. Comes in behind ’I thought it might have a chance’ in the rear of the pack.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Aug 2009
at 10:41
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
A golden ale with a thin white head. Nice light aroma of barnyard, oak, epsom salt and sour cherries. In mouth, a light cooling wheat with light cork notes, sour cherries, a bit of wheat malt, some lingering sourness. Interesting and refreshing, even for a 8% beer. Bomber, 4.49$, Bottle Barn.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Aug 2009
at 18:23