6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Clear dark amber with medium off white head. Sweet aroma with toasted malt and caramel notes. Flavour likewise with mild bitter finish.
Tried
on 19 Sep 2008
at 03:44
4.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Hazy yellow with medium white head. Sweet yeasty aroma with fruit and malty notes. Sweet flavour with yea ty, malty and floral notes. Ends sweet.
Tried
on 19 Sep 2008
at 03:44
6.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Great hazy golden orange coloured body with a nice perfect sized dense tan head - this is what an IPA should look like! Aroma of fresh grapefruit, pine, citrus, malt, yeast and a bit of grassy hops. Full-bodied; Strong assertive hop flavour up front with a potent alcohol taste and a dark maltiness fading to a bitter hoppiness - very strong for the style! Aftetaste shows the bitterness, alcohol and malt. Overall, this is almost an Imperial IPA, but shows good character. I’d sample this again, but I prefer the lighter IPAs, that are ’more traditional’! I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased on 25-March-2008 at Goebel Liquor in Wichita, Kansas, sampled on 13-September-2008 on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Sep 2008
at 16:11
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle from D&J Liquor in St. Louis, MO. Date seems to be 100308. Pours a dark coppery amber with a frothy off-white head. Smells malty/treacly. Medium body with frothy carbonation, but it somehow seems thinnish. Flavor is treacly and fairly roasted caramel. It’s sweet, though not sticky sweet. Finish is hardly bitter, but this one works. It has a lot of flavor. It’s really very drinkable. Something in it makes up for the lack of bitter - and strangely enough something like bitter developed on the edges of my tongue after awhile. Interesting stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Sep 2008
at 00:16
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle from D&J Liquor in St. Louis, MO. Slightly hazy amber color with a good off-white head. Lots of floral/citrus hop aroma over some slightly roasted caramel. Medium body with creamy carbonation. Flavor is quite florally hoppy with touches of pine and citrus - or maybe they are canceling each other - whatever, it’s hoppy. The finish is nicely bitter. It’s a very good drink.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Sep 2008
at 00:06
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 6
Bottle from D&J Liquor in St. Louis, MO. Cloudy amber gold color with a slight white head. Aromas of grain or bread, citrus and something grassy or floral. Near medium body with almost creamy carbonation. Flavor is lightly roasted grain, some citrus, and light spicy or floral hop. Pretty tasty wheat. Finishes lightly spicy and clean.Feels good in the mouth. Then it’s like I just had french fries! ?
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Sep 2008
at 21:45
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle from GBBF 08. Amber, thin beige head. A little bit of acidic nettle? Not a great pale ale, some toffeeish malt, but I’m not a big fan of these acidic nettle hop beers. Bit dull.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Sep 2008
at 11:59
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle courtesy of RidleyBrewery. Bottle # 853, date of 8/15/08. Pours dark brown. Aroma is oaky and sweet. Taste, roasted, some sweetness with some vanilla. Thick on the palate, filled with rich fruity flavors as well as caramel malts. I did not get to try enough to write a more complete review. A good brew, heavy on the taste, with good lacohol presence.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Aug 2008
at 22:51
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at home ... brougth back from GBBF 08 ... Crisp clear amber ... sweet piney hop ...light sweet fruity hop ... quite a lot of what i think of as american hops ... little light malt.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Aug 2008
at 13:38
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at home (one of my 60 bottle GBBF haul :-)) ... nice copper ... odd something and a little hop ... little sweet mellow fruit ... floral hops ... decent balance but like maeib says nothing special
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Aug 2008
at 14:38