Subsidiaries
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
tap at the brewery - Pours amber and smells pretty hoppy for an amber ale. I see ratebeer has it as an ESB. hmm... ok. Again I’m not sure we should differ from what the experienced brewers think their beer is. But anyway.... the flavor has caramel malt and ample hops that give it a touch of citrus. It’s fairly light and smooth and has an excellent balance. Overall it’s a good session brew.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Jan 2008
at 00:42
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
tap at the brewery - Pours amber with a thin head and an aroma of malt and wine. That wine really comes through in the flavor, yielding a fruity, somewhat sour beer that’s unlike any doppelbock that I’ve had before. It’s full bodied and well, interesting. While I found it alright, I definitely wasn’t as impressed as others were.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Jan 2008
at 00:34
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
tap at the brewpub - Pours copper with a one finger white head and a good citrus hop aroma. The crisp, bitter flavor has ample citrus hops but at the same time is very well balanced. The lingering bitterness of these same high quality hops caps off this great IPA.
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Jan 2008
at 19:27
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
tap at brewery - Pours amber with a nice lingering head. It smells of sweet malt and has a light roasted, sweet malt flavor. It’s smooth and light to medium bodied with a little hops in the finish. Pretty good.
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Jan 2008
at 19:18
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Chocolate aroma with dark roasted malt accompaniment. Dark brown, near opaque, color with a beige/tan head that quickly did some ring lacing. Near full bodied with creamy carbonation. The flavor is really roasted malt, near toasted/burnt. Coffee notes heading towards espresso. The finish is dry with some hop bitter to go along with all that malt. Exceptionally tasty.
Tried
on 18 Jan 2008
at 22:51
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
On tap @ San Diego Brewing brewpub. Pours clear amber with thin off white head. The medium strength aroma brings forth red wine, caramel malts and faint wood. The taste begins with a quick shot of red wine notes and a hint of dry tart tannins. Early in the taste a mixture of dark fruity (or it may be the red wine grapes carrying on), rich caramel candy, a hint of chocolate malts, roasty malts and faint wood. This is a wonderful combination that doesn’t drown out the base beer but lets it shine through the veil of barrel-ness.
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Jan 2008
at 20:43
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
on tap-pours a big retaining rich tan head and deep red color. Aroma is sweet alcohol-medium/dark malt, medium fruit-plum. Taste is oak, spicy, bitterness, sweet alcohol-medium/dark malt, medium fruit-plum. Medium body. Interesting.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Jan 2008
at 22:18
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
on tap-pours a dissipating white head and gold color. Aroma is nice sweet citrus hops (unique). Taste is nice sweet citrus hops (unique), medium malt-caramel. Dry finish. Good carbonation. OK, John at the brewery said Crystal hops.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Jan 2008
at 22:17
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
on tap-pours a white head and yellow/gold color. Aroma is citrus lemon-hops (amarillo). Taste is citrus lemon-hops (Amarillo), faint medium malt. OK carbonation.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Jan 2008
at 22:16
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
on tap-pours a thin white head and gold color. Aroma is citrus grapefruit/lemon hops. Taste is nice zippy citrus grapefruit/lemon hops-bitter, secondary medium malt. Dry finish. OK carbonation.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Jan 2008
at 22:15