Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Can. Pours a near clear gold with a white head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has sweet peach with a light tartness and a hint of yogurt. Flavor is similar with sweet and tart citrus with sweet wheat and yougurt supporting.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
On tap at Slow’s Detroit. Pours a slightly hazy rose with a white head that dissipates nearly completely. Aroma has a nice earthy tart cherry with light wheat supporting. Flavor has nice sour cherry with earthy wheat and a slight hint of yogurt.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
12 ounce can into tulip glass, best before 8/2017. Pours lightly hazy/cloudy very dark brown color with a 1 finger dense light khaki head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings around the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of big milk chocolate, cocoa, caramel, brown sugar, mint, nuttiness, and toasted dark/brown bread; with light notes of vanilla, cream, coffee, smoke, dark fruit, herbal, grass, and roast/toasted earthiness. Very nice aromas with good balance and complexity of dark/roast/bready malt, mint, cocoa, and light earthy hop/fruity yeast notes; with great strength. Taste of big milk chocolate, cocoa, caramel, brown sugar, mint, nuttiness, and toasted dark/brown bread; with light notes of vanilla, cream, coffee, smoke, dark fruit, herbal, grass, and roast/toasted earthiness. Light herbal/grassy hop and roasted bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of milk chocolate, cocoa, caramel, brown sugar, mint, nuttiness, toasted dark/brown bread, light coffee/smoke, herbal, grass, and roast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Great complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt, mint, cocoa, and light earthy hop/fruity yeast flavors; with a great roasted bitter/sweet balance, and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Minimal dryness from hop/roast bitterness. Touch of cooling mint character lingers after the finish. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, creamy/bready/grainy, and lightly silky/sticky/chalky mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 6.9%. Overall this is a delicious flavored English/Brown porter. All around nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt, mint, cocoa, and light earthy hop/fruity yeast flavors; very smooth and easy to drink, with the mildly bitter and very creamy finish. Nicely rich for the ABV with a great mix of malt complexity, and nice pleasing mint/cocoa balance without being overdone. A very enjoyable offering.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Can at Barley Hopsters. The beer is a cloudy apricot color with a thin white head that evaporates quickly to a sparse outer ring. Spotty lacing. Citrus, yeast and malt aroma. Light-bodied with flavors of tart citrus, yeast and grainy malt. The finish is moderately tart with an orange and yeast aftertaste. Decent overall.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
12oz can pours a lightly hazy gold with some sticky, white head. Nose is heavy with perfume and melon, some lemon-lime soda, flowers and squash blossoms. Flavor is sweet honey/candy, very very floral, lemon, heavy melon, some key lime pie maybe. Finishes bitter and sweet. Interesting but not great.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
12oz can thanks to jsquire
Pours hazy orange with a medium sized off-white head, good lacing. Aroma of tropical fruit, pit fruit and pineapple. Flavor of grapefruit, fruity, herbal and pine, sweet aftertaste
Ok
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Can at the RateBeer DC April Fool’s Tasting. Slightly hazy yellowish orange with off-white head. Aromas of butter and caramel. Tastes of citrus, butter, floral notes. Medium-light body with a dry finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
12oz can at the April Fools Day DC Ratebeer tasting. Poured an amber color with a small off-white head. Aroma was malty. Light booze notes. Some light fruity notes - light sugary character.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Lots of iced sugar like crystals on a stick. Pours amber. A little bitbof a mess. Syrupy conistency. Can.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Sample at the Platform - Columbus taproom during the "Beverage Source Tap Takeover" on 02/24/2017. Clear dark brownish-amber color with a thin off-white head that recedes quickly to a sparse outer ring. Spotty lacing. Aroma of roast malt, caramel and fruit. Medium to full body with flavors of caramel malt, fruit and mild earthy hops. The finish is sweet with a malty aftertaste. Decent overall.