6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle from Whole Foods in Santa Rosa, CA. Pours copper with a foamy off-white head. Seems to have a light maple aroma. Flavor is definite maple. The "malt" is a bit light, so maybe that’s the oat. While the maple is sweetish, the oat seems to add a bit of dry astringency. Somehow that almost comes to bitter balancing the syrup. Quite a different brew.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Dec 2010
at 20:59
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6
Pours brilliantly clear copper with off white head. The aroma lets out spicy hops, malt sweetened tangerine, a sliver of butterscotch, caramel and maltiness. The taste has a citrus bitter hop bias that does a pretty good job covering up the diacetyl butteriness smoldering off in the corner. So it isn’t too hateful.
Tried
on 10 Dec 2010
at 19:42
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from Whole Foods. Pours darkly ruddy with a foamy off-white head. Pineapple? Maybe. And some roast malt. Near full body. Flavor is roast malt with a lot of hop flavor. Nicely bittingly bitter. This is dang flavorful stuff. Pineapple? Yeah, maybe, probably, ok, they say it is. Why not?
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Dec 2010
at 18:09
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Key Food, Brooklyn single ($2): Pours an amber color with a creamy looking beige head. Aroma is of roasted malts and some hops (akin to some APAs I’ve had). From the taste, I get the hops right up front and they are quite pleasant (I suppose they are the citra hops). Some fruity flavors in there as well. I would not have been able to tell that this is a wheat... A very pleasant surprise from Peak. I usually think they are not that great.
Tried
on 22 Nov 2010
at 19:01
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Out of a bottle. Pours a deep straw that is hazy. White head is nondescript. Medium mouthfeel. This is a very bitter IPA. Nose has some musty, mossy-ness. Disjointed flavor profile.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Nov 2010
at 18:33
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
12 ounce bottle from Whole Foods, Fairfax, VA. Pours a hazy amber color with a medium creamy tan head. Good head retention and lacing. Aroma of toasted malts, stone fruits, nutty notes and faint maple notes. The taste is maple, caramel, plums, raisins, toasted malts and more maple in the finish. Medium bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Oct 2010
at 16:33
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
12 ounce bottle from Whole Foods, Fairfax, VA. Pours a hazy amber color with a large frothy head. Decent head retention and lacing. Aroma of floral and citrus hops with caramel. The taste is bitter floral, minty and leafy hops with caramel and a bitter finish. Medium bodied. Pretty good IPA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Oct 2010
at 16:32
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
12 ounce bottle from Whole Foods, Fairfax, VA. Pours a clear copper color with a large frothy offwhite head. Decent head retention and lacing. Aroma of peppery, citrus hops and caramel. The taste is earthy and nutty notes, citrus hops with a bit of a resiny note. Medium bodied. 3300th rating!
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Oct 2010
at 16:30
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