5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle. Faint lemony aroma, like a sour lemon, not imitation. Poured cloudy yellow with thin white head. Wheat toast flavour, with a bit of citrus, and herb. Bit of citrus in the slim finish
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Sep 2008
at 22:59
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Bottle. Creamy roasted aroma. Almost black colour. Very small brown head. The flavour is roasted with some barley bitterness, some cream, a little dust. Enough sweetness to prevent it from being too dry. Good coffee aftertaste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Aug 2008
at 06:31
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Draft at Lucky Baldwin. A brown beer with a lazing beige head. The aroma is sweet with strong notes of malt and caramel as well as a light touch of alcohol. The flavor is very sweet with strong notes of caramel and medium notes of brown sugar, leading to a dry bitter and caramel finish. Good body.
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Aug 2008
at 06:10
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
355 ml bottle. Hazy orange body with a white head. Strong hoppy/fruity aroma with some caramel. Flavor is sweet malt and citrus bitter. It’s nice, it’s typical west coast micro IPA, it’s clean, it’s definitively not originally but I enjoyed it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Aug 2008
at 13:07
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
From tap. Pours dark brown with small redish glare. Roasted malt and slight hoppy spiced aroma. Flavour starts spiced hoppy but also holds a slight roasted malt base. Goes quite bitter and hoppy into the finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Aug 2008
at 14:15
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
On Tap at the Ferry Building in San Francisco. Aroma of grass, coriander and lemon peel. Pours with a hazy gold body covered by a frothy white head. Taste is malty with hay and coriander. Dry and lively carbonated mouthfeel.
Tried
from Draft
on 21 Jul 2008
at 21:55
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
12 fl oz bottle, thanks to cgarvieuk. Pours dark brown with a semi creamy and tan head. Solid roasted malt and chocolate aroma. Flavour is mild smoked and holds a solid roasted malt base. Light chocolate smoothness too. Light bitterness mixed with a nice roasted malt acidity. Light chocolate malt following. Ends with a light roasted acidity and smooth chocolate along a nice bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jul 2008
at 01:47
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draft. Blackish beer with a big off-white head. Chocolate and grainy malt aroma. Malty, chocolate, slight roast flavor - needs more chocolate. Slightly tannic. Medium body. Lingering malt and roast and chocolate.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Jul 2008
at 16:17
5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 4
Bottle. Bready, light banana, perfumed and candyish notes, dusty/minerally retronasal. Hazy pale, no head Relatively light body, sparkly mouthfeel. Unbalanced and not really enjoyable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jul 2008
at 21:32
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
I normally like raspberry beers, but they are quite easy to mess up, so I’ve been wary about trying this one - dark reddish brown pour, with a fairly thick, lasting lace - strong but fairly natural raspberry aroma, with some earthy/seed character, and some chocolate and pastry-like qualities lurking underneath - a little bit tart and acidic up front, with some earthy fruit skin notes - this gives way to a fairly strong chocolate flavor that works well with the fruit - some doughy flavor arrives late - acidity returns in the finish, and the raspberry lingers for a while - gets a little metallic in the finish, but otherwise this is a fairly interesting beer.
Tried
on 12 Jul 2008
at 20:22