5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Pour is a bright golden with a white head. Aroma is a malty sweetness. Flavor is nice and hoppy with a sweetnes. Finish is watery and bland though. Starts off nice but ends badly. Good effort but nothing stands out in this for a good pils.
Tried
on 10 Dec 2006
at 13:20
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Orange-brown body, thick light tan head. Effervescent carbonation. Hoppy nose, toasty, with hints of grapefruit peel. Grapefruity, citrusy body, actually a swirl of bitter and tart hops flavors greet the palate upon sipping the beer. Almost puckering. The finish is grassy and somewhat metallic, long and bitter. For some reason this has a grainy or gritty mouthfeel. It’s as if keeping this in the mouth for too long would allow the beer to crystalize. This beer is messy and unrefined.
Tried
on 07 Dec 2006
at 21:25
4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 2
Overall 4
Oh-oh, smells like an imperial or foreign stout with a caramel background, and I don’t like imperial or foreign stouts. 12 oz brown bottle with a twist off cap. I am a bit surprised that it pours very dark transparent in my steeler stein. A malty roasty initial flavor, perhaps even some hops in there. Very little carbonation. Yes, it is robust as the description says but there is no detail of this on the label, it is pretty much plain jane just mentioning winter ale. I think this is the first English Strong ale I’ve tasted. It is smooth but has a lingering undesirable interesting flavor on the finish, a little bitter. Try this if you like stouts.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Dec 2006
at 15:18
5.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Layer of something on the bottom of 12 oz twist off bottle. Learning to pour a hefe/wit is really cool. Do it correctly, no cloudyness and muck stays in bottle. No identifyable aroma. Initial wheat flaver, nothing bitter. Clean and fresh and the finish is nice, no linger.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Nov 2006
at 12:51
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pour is a complete black with a small tan head. Aroma is of faint malts and coffee. Flavor is much better, dark chocolate with some roasted malts and finish is very dry. A decent beer that you could drink lots of on a cold rainy evening.
Tried
on 10 Nov 2006
at 19:35
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a mahogany color with a large tan head. The aroma is strong molasses and nutmeg. The flavor is roasty malts, molasses, hints of dry chocolate and nutmeg. The finish is long and mildly bitter. Tasty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Oct 2006
at 12:31
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4
Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a pale yellow color with a very large yellow-white head. The aroma is sour and tangy malts with light floral hops. The flavor is light malts with a light yeasty undertone and a hint of floral hops. Fairly forgettable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Oct 2006
at 12:28
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Pour is brown, even a touch of reddness. Full porter taste, dark chocolate and roast coffee. Nice full hop taste at the end. Another nice Summit beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Oct 2006
at 11:04
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draft and bottle. Copper pour with a small off-white head. Floral aroma with hints of caramel. The bottled version was much sweeter than the draft — perhaps because of age. The hops were much more subdued in the bottle as well. Both draft and bottle were fairly standard renditions of an APA. Nothing to make you sit up and take notice. OK hop bite atop the sweet backbone. Medium body and watery texture. Enjoyable for a session beer.
Tried
from Draft
on 24 Oct 2006
at 16:37
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a hazy chestnut color with a small khaki head. The aroma is sour nut, strong floral and fruity hops and light molasses and maple syrup. The flavor is sour nut, strong molasses and maple syrup and crisp floral and fruity hops. There is a tangy bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Oct 2006
at 20:49