Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5
Can: First off.....a blast of synthetic strawberry at arms length while popping the tab. Clear gold with a small white head... The aroma continues to be strong, but slowly fades...Taste is lactic, creamy, strawberry malt, sweet grain.... Light and a bit watery. A different sort of cream ale, but not bad....it grew on me.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 2
$2 bottle from vintage. Smells quite fruity and attractive and it does look pretty good in the glass with its orange brown color and quarter inch rocky head. Taste is yummy green grapefruit rind mixed with pine tree sap, the thick stcky kind that sticks to your hands and can’t get off. Yes, such wonderful soapy mouthcoating happy BS. What else can be said, terribly on style for an imperial ipa, just a little darker than usual. Don’t care for this ridiculous style, to each his own. One ratebeerians fun brew is another’s penance. Straight up ass.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
(tap) clear amber colour with a small beige head; aroma of fresh fruit; balanced flavour with a long, strong bitter finish
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
(tap) clear brown colour with a small brown head; aroma of fresh crushed weeds, then stewed fruit, roast; balanced flavour with a long, light bitter finish
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Mild malty aroma with a hint of ipa perfume. Nice and dark is the look. Yes, pretty complex, lots of malt with hints of choco and even a tad of pepper and medium bitter hops. After I saw it was a rye beer, I wasn’t expecting much but the rye in this is not overdone, easily accepted on this end. As session continues, it does get a little more bitter but I appreciate the fact it’s not getting in yer face. Finish does have some of that ipa effect happening in there.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Dark with ruby highlights and a beige head. Medium roasted malts, chocolate, a bit of earthy hops. Full, smooth body with a light bite from the carbonation. A bit of bittersweet roasted malts, slight coffee notes, burnt toast. Finish is medium bitter roast. This is a nice impy, though a little one-dimensional. I wouldn’t have a problem having more than one of these.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Sample at Kurtkeller 020: Stout-tastic 01 on 02/22/2015. The beer is a dark brownish-black color with a medium khaki head that recedes steadily. Stringy lacing on the glass. Aroma of roast malt, coffee and a touch of hops. Medium body with flavors of charred malt, chocolate and mild earthy coffee. The finish is roasty with a malt aftertaste. Decent overall.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 2
From vintage, $2 a bottle. Glugs into the glass from the bottle. Brisk IPA aroma. First taste is free, big, almost rubber spirit concoction of thicker materialistic ipa woes. Did nellie go nasty or is little zeke using the ol’ john deer to disc the surface of my tongue. Chuggah chuggah like a slow idling unfiltered harley. Long bitter medicinal feeling on the finish, come on summer, wew, how about an acidic sour for a chaser? Yes, terrible on style for a double ipa, pine tar and spruce all while chewing on green grapefruit rinds mouth coating handsoap experience.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7.5
Can thanks to Rainer. Pours a clear orange with no head. The aroma is mango and citrus. Thin mouth, bitter hop, pine, resin finish. Decent.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Sample at The Ohio Taproom. Pours a dark brown color with some cola around the edges, and a medium light beige head that recedes steadily to an outer ring. Stringy lacing on the glass. Aroma of roast malt, chocolate and citrus. Light to medium body with flavors of toasted malt, chocolate and mild citrusy hops. The finish is roasty with a malty aftertaste. Decent overall.