5.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Growler straight from the brewery poured into a generic goblet glass. Pours a dark, murky amber with a large head. But it really does not look well, just a bad murkiness to the color, kind of looks like dirt poured in there. Aroma, can tell right away this is amateur work. Old hops, smell like crap, with too much sweet malt behind it. Taste is similar with a very strong, resiny bitterness which does not work well in a beer with a horrible hop flavor and too much residual sweetness. Tasted like a first time homebrew. I have been a big fan of 23rd but this one was really sub par.
Tried
from Growler
on 19 Jan 2009
at 19:35
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Growler filled at the brewpub, consumed 4 hours later that evening. Pour is golden yellow, bit hazy and cloudy. Nice, full formed, white head. Nice lacing on the glass. Aroma is lemon citrus and the resin hops. Taste is the resin rye graininess with bit floral orange lemon citrus hops. Decent balance and bitterness throughout. Palate is medium, oily, though drinkable. Bit of alcohol warmth in the drying finish.
Tried
from Growler
on 01 Jan 2009
at 18:06
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Shaker Pint draft at the brewpub. Pour is hazed copper ruby with a 1/4 inch soapy off white head. Aroma of biscuit grainy maltiness, bit of chemical sweetness. Touch of diacetyl perhaps. Taste is the toasty biscuit malt, a bit of resin, and some fruit sweetness (craisin). Palate is watery, with an acidic twinge to the finish. Drinkable, and decent ESB.
Tried
from Draft
on 01 Jan 2009
at 18:02
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Growler from brewpub. Poured into pint glass with a very small, quickly fading, but dark brown color. The color is great but i could barely get a look at the head. Its a good sweet stout. All over there is lots of sweetness from the oats, as well as a decent amount of prune, which I like in my stouts, melding well with the sweetness. There is a light roast, not getting in the way, as well. And as always, very easy drinking beer from this brewery. I think I took 3 pints of this growler, it was that tasty.
Tried
from Growler
on 14 Dec 2008
at 16:10
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Growler from brewpub. What a tasty brew. Pours black with a strong tan head. Basically, the beer is very mocha-ish. The mocha also mixes well with a sweet roasted flavor and it all shines in the flavor. very easy drinking, kept guzzling glass after glass of this stuff. Flavorful enough for a beer geek but simple enough for a newcomer.
Tried
from Growler
on 04 Dec 2008
at 22:05
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Shaker pint draft at the brewpub. Pour is deep brown and ruby with a smallish tan head. Aroma of roasted malt, with some coffee. Taste is roast coffe, with smooth maltiness. Palate is medium, smooth and very easy drinking. Nice porter.
Tried
from Draft
on 19 Nov 2008
at 21:43
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Shaker pint at the brewpub. Pour is a hazed orange golden, with a smallish off white head. Aroma of citrus bitter hops. Taste is nicely balanced with citrus fruit hoppiness, resin, and nice sweet malt backbone. Palate is medium. Nice one.
Tried
on 19 Nov 2008
at 21:41
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Shaker pint at the brewpub. Pour is brown ruby, clear with a smallish tan head. Aroma of semi sweet caramel malt. Taste is smooth maltiness, touch of earthy peatiness and a hint of bright hops. Nicely balanced brown, super drinkable. Palate is medium, full but light. Quite impressed, I usually can take or leave Browns, but this was a nice one.
Tried
from Can
on 19 Nov 2008
at 21:39
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Growler from brewpub filled within the hour. Bartender (dressed as an angle for Halloween) told me this was a brown ale with pumpkin. Pours with a big head that turns into a surface covering lacing. Color is dark cola, too dark to see through but a bit clearer on the edges. Aroma is thick, lightly chocolate malts and then lightly grainy pumpkin with a good dose of spices. Comes off as a chocolate pumpkin muffin - really cool aroma. Its earthy, chocolate-y and pumpkin-y. The brown ale and the pumpkin meld very well. Flavor has a thinner malt presence coming out, with such a strong and special aroma I would have liked a thicker beer. There is still plenty of spices though. A bit mineral and cola-like at the end of the flavor. A bit of a seltzer feel at the end of the flavor as well. Goes down easy though, doesn’t leave any residual sweetness, just an aftertaste of pumpkin muffins.
Tried
from Growler
on 31 Oct 2008
at 21:08
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Growler picked up at the brewpub for me by beastiefan2k. Pour is mostly clear golden orange with a two inch off white head and nice cascading settling. Aroma is soft banana esters and cloves. Some spicy citrus present as well. Taste is more of the bananas and cloves, along with a nice mineral earthy wheatiness to it. Decent bitter-sweet orange citrus bite to the finish. Palate has nice cleansing carbonation and is a bit heavier than many wits I have had. This works nicely with the mineral element. Nice clean beer. Thanks for picking this up for me Eugene.
Tried
from Growler
on 24 Sep 2008
at 14:15