4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Assume a 2005 bottle, from Liquor Mart, consumed on 10/13/2005. Clear, copper-gold-yellow. Some bubbles. One finger white head seems well retained initially. Smells of a typical pale lager: vanilla, creamed corn. Some metallic notes as well. Bits of graininess intersparsed with grass. Some cat urine. Flavor is strikingly similar to white grape juice at first. Some grass, parsley, more white grape juice. Not a poor body to it, just dosent taste right. Retro pale grains. Mouthfeel is ok, not overcarbonated. Reminds me of bottled Russian pale lagers. Just too much cat piss and sweetness reminiscent of white grapes. Nice copper sheen shows that there is more than just pale/pils malt in here. Hops are skunked badly. Not my idea of the type of beer that should be exported. I feel bad scoring it low, as I bet this would be really good fresh on draught and I know this hasnt travelled well. But it’s the brewer’s choice to export this thing all the way from Hawaii to Colorado, so I feel justified in holding them to it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Oct 2005
at 10:57