7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
500mL bottle, sent from gn0sis (thanks Eric!), pours a hazy golden with a sizable lingering, white head. Aroma of citrusy and floral hops above anything - the floral notes are upfront and very pleasant. Flavour of soapy, floral hops with a little citrusy edge. Nothing revolutionary, but a solid floraly pale ale. Very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Sep 2011
at 20:06
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at Leighton’s Aug 11 tasting. It pours hazy dark amber, with a thick off-white head. The nose is varnish, wood, treacle, brown sugar, chocolate, caramel and cinnamon. The taste is grapefruit, cinnamon, brown bread, caramel, smoke, roasted malt, nut, wood, ash, coffee and chocolate, with a long bitter-dry finish. Medium body and average carbonation. Impressive.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Sep 2011
at 05:02
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle at Leighton’s Aug 11 tasting. It pours hazy golden yellow, with a thin white head. The nose is pine, grass, orange, mango, light spice and chocolate Smarties. The taste is straw, hay, white bread, lemon, orange, apricot and pine, with a long light bitter finish. Medium body, moderate carbonation and foamy mouth-feel. It’s smooth, clean and well balanced. Nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Sep 2011
at 05:13
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Hazy dark yellow with a lasting white head. Aroma is sweet, malty and rather hoppy - peach and pine needles. Flavor is quite sweet and rather bitter. Dry and moderate bitter finish. 030911
Tried
on 04 Sep 2011
at 06:36
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Slightly hazy dark yellow with big off-white head. Flavour is malt, citrus, hops, fruit, peach, little pine and medium bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Sep 2011
at 23:38
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Pours a dark amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty hoppy aroma with weak caramel hints. Fruity malty hoppy bitter flavor with hints of caramel. Has a fruity malty hoppy finish with hints of caramel.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Sep 2011
at 07:35
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from Plainfield Hardware in Vermont. My kind of hardware store! Hazy golden color, large fluffy white head. Aroma of grass, flowers, pineapple, citrus. Taste has lots of citrus, fruit and light spice, solid malt backbone. Very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Aug 2011
at 14:29
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle at a tasting, with Nate and Paul at this point. Pours a cloudy, red-brown with a creamy, tan head. Has a pretty strong pine hop nose, some earth and caramel. Medium sweet flavor, plenty of pine, crisp earth, some grapefruit. Medium bodied with fine to average carbonation. Great balance on the finish. Lots of piney hops, some oil and resin, sweet toast, mild earth. Excellent beer. So good all around.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Aug 2011
at 12:27
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
500ml bottle from Porterhouse. Nose is very hoppy with citrus and light pine; very hoppy for an amber ale combining with some caramel maltiness. Lightly hazy copper -amber with a big, heavily lacing, beige head. Flavor is moderately bitter with heavy grapefruit notes and a light caramel sweetness. Very nice amber.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Aug 2011
at 14:38
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottled@Craft Beer Co, London. Golden colour, small foamy white head. Aroma is fruits, wood, some mild malty and bigtime hoppy notes. Flavour is hoppy, malty, fruity and also quite much wooden notes. Wellbalanced and a quite pleasant session beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Aug 2011
at 21:44