5.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle: Brown pour with a nice tan head. Aroma is faint and barely noticeable roasty malt. Taste is mild roasty and hints of watery coffee. Pretty underwhelming.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Apr 2008
at 22:43
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Interesting beer. A light brown color. Sweet potato in the aroma. Some cinnamon flavor, as well as cloves and very light orange/citrus. Unfortunately it is entirely too light, the flavors and aromas are not there in enough strength.
Tried
on 17 Feb 2008
at 11:59
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pine and floral aromas. Decent amber color with a rather weak white head. Full bodied with fairly mild carbonation. Flavor is lots of hop (could be resin and citrus) and some roasted malt that is a bit overwhelmed by the hop (good thing, that). Finish is pretty dry, pretty hoppy, and really tasty.
Tried
on 11 Jan 2008
at 20:20
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Draft at Belmont Station. Aroma of roasted malt and coffee. Dark brown color with a lightly lacing beige/tan head. Full bodied with creamy carbonation. Somehow the whole flavor thing turns into coffee. Lots of coffee. Maybe a bit of chocolate. Definitely roasted/toasted malt, but the coffee rules. Something like a strongly coffee brown ale? Good.
Tried
from Draft
on 20 Dec 2007
at 21:42
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pours crystal clear copper with lasting off white head. The aroma is light and mostly caramelized malts and almost no hops. The taste has a nice pine hop bitterness right up front followed by mild roasty malts. The whole experience kind of fades into the finish. The after taste has a mild hop bitterness that lingers for a while.
Tried
on 26 Nov 2007
at 21:43
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cloudy amber,creamy beige head.Yeasty alcohol nose.Yeasty palate, hints of pear/banana Decent enough, but not a style I am fond of.
Tried
on 07 Aug 2007
at 10:48
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Hazy orangey-gold colour. Fresh aroma is toasty, hoppy with a woody alcohol note. Rounded malt character. Starts with a hint of icing sugar cloyingness. This fades to bold bready malts with a hint of pear. Alcohol comes in late, cutting through the sugars and providing a nice finish. Maybe a beer to drink one glass at a time but this is good.
Tried
on 06 Aug 2007
at 12:51
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Tap at Fest :Clear gold in color, small white head.Faintly malty nose. Grainy profile with a light crisp hop finish
Tried
from Draft
on 20 Jun 2007
at 10:43
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Brilliant dark amber colour. Aroma of brown sugar and earthy chewiness. Full body. Has a chewy body with a toasty note. Worthy of further exploration.
Tried
on 24 Mar 2007
at 00:44
6.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Deep amber coloured body with a perfect rich tan head. Absolutely beautiful! Aroma of metal, citrus, floral hops, caramel and a good bitterness. Medium-bodied; Light hoppy taste with a very mild malty flavour. Not much going on in the taste - fairly weak for the style. Aftertaste shows some metal and a little amount of hops, hardly any malt though. Overall, a decent IPA - not enough in it for me, but definitely worth trying as the first beer in Seattle! I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased from Whole Foods in Ravenna, Washington on 11-February-2007.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Feb 2007
at 16:13