6.6/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Tulip at brewery. Very hazy honey color, medium clarity. The hops are nice on here, old school citrus and pine. Well attenuated. The biggest turn off is I can taste the malt husks. Low bitterness. Would have been nice 1 years ago.
Tried
from Can
on 17 Apr 2016
at 19:34
7.6/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draft 10 Oz pour at Hop and Hound as part of my "taking beer out of hiatus" series. Just over a year on this one. Pours damn near black with a foam ran head. Big roasted aroma here. Flavor is dark roasted malts, and forest hops. Piney. Toasty with a hop bitter finish. I feel like this is a true, full on example of what the style is supposed to be, and I feel like they nailed it. Well done.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Feb 2016
at 20:48
6/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Pint at brewery. Amber color clear beer. Decent head retention. Aroma is dusty malts and vegetal hops. So is the flavor. This is old school, meaning IPAs have gotten much better. A little rotten fruit bitter end as well.
Tried
on 20 Aug 2015
at 21:21
6.5/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Shaker draft at local seafood restaurant. Clear dull gold color. Some head but no lacing. Once it warms up you get the flaws. A real husky malt comes out, leafy greens, and herbally but not in the fun way emerge. Flavor is similar. I like the lack of sweetness in flavor. A bitter random happiness emerges as well. Aroma needs work but flavor is fine enough.
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Jul 2015
at 21:18
7.1/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Draft at 2nd Anniversary party at the brewery. Served in a Lindemans flute. They purposely made sure to tell me that it’s supposed to be a sour. Surprise me when it wasn’t that sour. Aroma is sour-esque Swedish fish and gin botanicals. Flavor is tighter with less sweetness, a moderate musk sourness akin to spoiled fruit. Lots of gin botanicals. Herbal aftertaste. I guess I like gin barrels.
Tried
from Draft
on 01 May 2015
at 18:00
7/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft pour at Beveridge Place. Pours a clear gold color with no head. Subtle hops, apple and grain aroma. A lot more flavor than I expected, with some orange, pear, and finishes grainy. One of the least bland blondes I’ve had in recent memory. Well done.
Tried
from Draft
on 01 May 2015
at 17:29
5.5/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Snifter at the brewery during 2nd anniversary. Bubbly head, clear amber body. The rest of the beer is not worth discussing because its diacetyl. And once you work past that you get a faded hop character. Again, why barrel age hoppy beers. Not to mention I don’t even get bourbon. Are these third time use barrels?
Tried
on 01 May 2015
at 14:58
6.8/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Draft pour at Special Brews. Pours a cloudy burnt orange with a ton of hear and lace. Sweet, wet malty aroma. Flavor is very toasty, with some grapefruit. Very creamy as well. Thicker body will a long toasty finish. Pretty good beer.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Feb 2015
at 13:57
4.2/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
On tap at Spinnaker Bay, pours a hazy orange / bronze with a small off-white head. Aroma is intense, full of cloyingly sweet sugar and messy yeast. Flavour is nuts, with cloyingly sweet brown sugar, yeast, and acetone. What a huge mess of a beer - just about everything wrong with this.
Tried
from Draft
on 08 Feb 2015
at 02:13
4.8/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
On tap at Spinnaker Bay, pours a hay orange with a medium white head. Aroma brings out diacetyl and other chemically notes, and maybe some orange rinds in back. Flavour is not as infected tasting, with lots of caramel malts, candied sugar, and light resinous hopping. Too sweet an not balanced at all. Quite messy and in need of refinement.
Tried
from Draft
on 08 Feb 2015
at 02:13