6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
12 ounce bottle from Whole Foods Market, Fairfax, VA. Pours a clear dark reddish amber with a medium creamy tan head. Good head retention and lacing. Aroma of caramel, leafy hops, dough and a faint nutty note. The taste is nutty, grainy malts with a faintly bitter leafy hop finish. Medium bodied and overcarbonated.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Oct 2010
at 16:29
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Bottle. Pours a light, hazy copper with a creamy, off-white head. Light malt aroma with some bread and caramel. Sweet taste, very bready, some maple notes, but mostly in the aftertaste. Very little bitterness. Medium bodied with average carbonation. Perhaps a tad artificial tasting, but overall quite good. Great lacing, lightly warming, fairly rich and with mild complexity.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Sep 2010
at 04:45
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle from the World Beer Festival - Raleigh on 09/15/2010. Clear reddish brown body with a medium creamy off-white head. Sweet nutty malt aroma. Sweet nutty and light roasted malt flavor. Medium body with moderate carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Sep 2010
at 19:01
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
On tap at Bottoms Up on 09/03/2010. Very clear golden body with a small white head. Sweet floral hop aroma on a pale malt background. Somewhat grainy floral hop flavor on a pale malt background. Medium body with moderate carbonation.
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Sep 2010
at 18:15
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at WBF-Raleigh on 04/24/2010. Clear copper body with a medium creamy tan head. Sweet coffee and pepper aroma. Coffee flavor with light pepper. Medium body with moderate carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Sep 2010
at 11:19
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle from Whole Foods. Pours amber with a decent whit head. Aroma is nicely floral/citrus. Medium body with moderate carbonation. Could be a touch of diacetyl in the flavor. Otherwise nice floral/citrus hop over a slightly roasted malt. Finishes a bit buttery, but definitely bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Aug 2010
at 20:50
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. Pours a hazy, amber-honey with a mild, white head. Bready malt aroma with some caramel. Flavor is sweet with notes of toasted biscuit, caramel, butterscotch, and lightly bitter with some earthy hops. Medium in body with average carbonation. Finishes sweet with some modest bitterness. Not bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Aug 2010
at 20:45
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle from Whole Foods in Sacramento, CA. Pours light gold with a slight foamy white head. Light citric aroma. Near medium body with foamy carbonation. Flavor is light malt with a touch of citrus. Finishes bitter, but with a papery note. Better than Bud.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Aug 2010
at 20:44
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bomber from some store in San Diego! Pours hazy amber with a slight, but foamy, off-white head. Damn, if it doesn’t smell like espresso. Medium body with mild, foamy carbonation. Flavor starts espresso, moves to a suggestion of chocolate, heads towards coffee, and seems to finish with a caramel touch - and then the espresso coffee aspect begins again. I’d say the coffee used is pretty good coffee.
Tried
on 24 Jul 2010
at 21:13
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Some random deli in Brooklyn: Copperish-like color with a white head that leaves lacing. Hoppy and earthy aroma (kind of smells like dirt); might have been a little skunked. Heavy on the earthy and caramel malts. Some hops. A little sodaish taste. Not very well-balanced. Their IPA is a whole lot better than this.
Tried
on 11 Jul 2010
at 18:59