Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
On tap at the brewpub. Poured a slightly hazy amber brown with a grayish tan head that dissipated slowly to the edges. Aroma was full of spice with some dark grains and a int of dark fruits. Flavor was similar with the same strong spice note with dark grains and bread as well as some dark fruits. The spice note was a bit strong for me.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
On tap at the brewpub. Poured a near clear gold with a white head that dissipated to the edges. Aroma was full of earthy grains and straw that was slightly sweet and a hint of light spice. Flavor began with earthy grains and hay with some light fruit and a hint of spice in the finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
On tap at the brewpub. Poured a clear gold with a white head that dissipated slowly but completely. Aroma had a nice grass note with crisp lager yeast, light straw and hay. Flavor began with straw and hay but was joined by grass and eve a bit of pine. Beer was nice and crisp as well as easy to drink.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Sampler at the bar. Cappuccino foam over a black body, of course. Smell has creamy cocoa, then coffee.Taste has ballsy chocolate roast malt, but no harshness. A blast of citrus hop, then what? A creamy taste despite some busy CO2 bubbles. Cherry cordial chocolate at the end. Yes.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Taster at the bar. Just slightly darker than the previous golden beer (Beaubien), with a white IPA head crowning the top. The small serving does not do the nose justice, but there are obvious "C" hops with pine and grapefruit, maybe Amarillos. Taste ratchets back the hops at first, then lets ’em go in a resiny rush down my gullet. Bitterness stays forward in my mouth. Malts just slip aside now to keep the hops in play. A bit of lemonade in the finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Draft taster at the Haymarket bar. Bright cloudy Lemonhead™ color under thin foam in my sample glass. There’s lemon zest, coriander and anise in the nose. The taste is lemon, wheat malt and banana, demonstrating a warm farmhouse ale ferment. The yeast is still at work in this beer, even kicking in a small horseblanket note. Finish tends into the bubblegum territory.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Taster @ Haymarket. Pale yellow, a little cloudy, under a white parfait foam. Sweet smell with a little yeast; not a very strong ale smell, considering. Taste is pretty malty and a little sweet. Hops are working well with this beer, I can play a taste over every part of my tongue and feel it sublimate into carbon dioxide. My first Haymarket beer (but I didn’t have the info to enter it), and it’s a very good impression.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Draft 4 oz. taster @ Haymarket. Finally got a chance to hit Pete’s place for some samples. Found my first one wasn’t listed here yet, but here’s the second: Very light gold color. I admit, it’s just as pale as a Big Flats. A light, hard to pick up beer smell to my rhinitis infected nose.Lighter pilsener malts, which I guessed were for a Bohemian pils, and I was right. Saaz hops dry out the beer and even leave a little hop burn in the back of my mouth. Second brewpub pils this week after Lucky Monk’s. More brewpub’s are taking on pilseners, and proving them to be the respectable older cousins to megabrewed swill lagers.