Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
on tap-pours a light brown head with heavy lacing and black color. Aroma is dark malt-roasty/peat/cocoa. Taste is dark malt-roasty/peat/cocoa/molasses, some earthy hops.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
on tap-pours a foamy tan head and amber color. Aroma is spice/herbal hops, secondary sweet medium malt. Taste is spice/herbal hops with some bite, secondary sweet medium malt-caramel.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
on tap-pours a tan head and black color with red tint. Aroma ia roasty dark malt-anise, some acidic hops. Taste is roasty dark malt-anise/chocolate, ashy, some acidic/earthy hops. Full side of medium body.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
on tap-pours a white head with some lacing and gold color. Aroma is citrus, hint of malt. Taste is earthy hops with some pine, English tendencies, somewhat sweet medium malt-caramel.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
on tap-pours a retaining patchy off white head and hazy copper color. Aroma is medium malt-caramel. Taste is medium malt-sweet caramel, secondary spice/pine hops. Medium body. OK effervescence.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
on tap-pours a white head and gold color. Aroma is sweet grain-honey. Taste is sweet grain-honey/some caramel, spice hops.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
draft at the brewpub - Pours copper with a lingering head that leaves excellent lacing. It smells of fruity, bready malt. The flavor is moderately hopped with a touch of fruit. It finishes dry and bitter.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
draft at the brewpub - Pours very dark brown with a tan head that lasts and laces well. It smells of dark roast malt and has flavors of those same malts, chocolate, and a little dark fruit. It’s medium bodied and moderately bitter. Maybe they pumped up the hops on this one from prior years.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Draft at the brewpub - Pours dark amber with a thin head. It has a sweet caramel malt with some other rather odd flavors that I couldn’t identify. Medium bodied and lightly carbonated, it’s easy to drink from that standpoint, but as I said, a little off somehow.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
draft at the brewpub - This brew has a bready malt smell. It has a light flavor of caramel malt with a touch of fruit and mild hops. Easily quaffed, it’s an average amber.