Nice aroma, roasted and bitter taste. Pretty darned good.

Roost, Greenville SC

Local Cue, Greenville SC

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle: Deep brown with a frothy tan head. Cola, chocolate scent. Taste is rich, semi-bitter chocolate malt, old black coffee, caramel malt. Solidly bodied with an increasing and robust ashy bitter. Very good.

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle. Coffee, chocolate malt, and dry hay aroma. Black with moderate tan head. Mildly sweet coffee, chocolate toffee malt, and moderately bitter dry hay and ash flavor. Good body. A great porter.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

Bottle: Slightly hazed, slightly orange, gold with a tight, off-white head. Orange, grain malt scent. Taste is sweet, orange malt, fruit, light caramel malt. Not bad....pretty easy drinking.

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle. Pine, grapefruit peel, lemon, and biscuit malt aroma. Slightly hazy golden yellow with large light tan head. Mildly sweet citrus, biscuit malt, and moderately bitter pine/grapefruit peel flavor. Body a bit light. Okay, but not great.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

Sways wildly between indulgently sweet and strikingly bitter, offering up huge buttered caramel and toffee notes before drying out considerably for the floral, lingering finish. Gains a nutty depth on the back end, while the fade offsets the clingy hops with hints of toast and honey. Pours a dark, dark brown-orange, but gives up a slight head with very little lace. Sweet nose smells like autumn in a pint. Perky texture verges on overcarbonated, but not quite. Overall a bit too heavy-handed for my tastes.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Boozy as hell, with a deep vein of bourbon accentuating the dry bitterness of Peoples. Dark, bitter roastiness meets vanilla, chocolate, dark fruits, and loads of liquor. Still prefer the original, but BBA makes for a nice variation.

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

High hopes for this low abv cream ale. After all, I like Genny cream! Hey, you know, I liked Carolina Beer Co. Blonde (retired), and it wasn’t bad and I heard a rumor this is the new carolina blonde, almost same recipe! From a bottle I assume its clear pale yellow. Smell is a little sour. Taste is initially a little tart, I think. Good bubbly sensations. Enjoyable, un-offensive with just a tail of that ale attitude. Yes, could drink a couple of these mild ales, not bad.