4.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
On tap at Tumbleroot, pours an opaque bright yellow with a small white head. Aroma is chalky, with muddled earthy hops and stone fruit pulp - ugh. Flavour is muddled and chalky, with fermented out honey, earthy hops, and bready malt. Way too muddled, with poor hop expression; the honey doesn't help. Not good.
Tried
from Draft
on 21 Apr 2022
at 03:51
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
On tap at Tumbleroot, pours a cl at copper with a small white head. Aroma brings out muted, somewhat stale earthy hops, and biscuity malt. Flavour is a little better, with some pine cones upfront, earthy notes and crisp biscuity malt. Earthy, somewhat piney and bready. It's alright… a bit tired tasting.
Tried
from Draft
on 21 Apr 2022
at 03:50
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
On tap at Tumbleroot, pours a clear copper with a small white head. Aroma brings out fresh herbaceous notes, bright grass and biscuity malt. Flavour is bright and clean, with fresh herbaceous, grassy notes, straw and crisp biscuity malt. Dry, straw-like and herbaceous. Solid stuff.
Tried
from Draft
on 21 Apr 2022
at 03:49
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
12 ounce can from Total Wine Santa Fe, 1/24/22. Hazy pale orange, large frothy white head, good retention. Aroma of yeast, rice, citrus. Taste is citrus, rice, yeast. Juicy, low bitterness, well balanced.
Tried
from Can
on 27 Jan 2022
at 00:51
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
One of a handful of beers to come home with me after a recent visit to Santa Fe, a brewer I am unfamiliar with as is the brew, obviously. A 500 ml bottle, 8.9% abv on the label, now opened and pouring into my Great Heights snifter. I see a semi-opaque, gold-red liquid finished by a small head of silvery white foam. The nose is enticing, lightly hoppy, input from the honey and some alfalfa. The taste is moderately hoppy for a dipa, malt, varnish and just a hint of mango sweetness and the same with a bitterness. Interesting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jul 2021
at 02:08
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle from Total Wine Uptown. Murky copper pour with a one finger fluffy head. Malty aroma, caramel, brown bread. More malts in the taste, sweet, light barrel accents.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Jan 2020
at 02:58
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Taster at the brewery - cola-colored brew - richly smoky aroma - somewhat thin-bodied for the abv (and to hold the smoke) - flavor is less smoky than the nose, but settles on a moderate chocolate sweetness and woodiness - the best beer I tried here.
Tried
on 09 Jul 2018
at 02:18
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Taster at the brewery - hazy orange - flat, overly sweet, bubblegum-y rendition of the style, with slightly harsh finishing phenolics - needs major cleaning up.
Tried
on 09 Jul 2018
at 02:16
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Taster at the brewery - a valiant effort at the style - it's clean, lightly floral, with a moderate malt richness - overall, though, the flavors together are generally indistinct; your palate has to work at it, so it doesn't pop or have the bright vibrancy of the better examples of the style.
Tried
on 09 Jul 2018
at 02:13
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Taster at the brewery - hazy gold - fairly light, with pleasantly crisp maltiness and a moderate hop bite - however, the middle brings moderate acetaldyhide in the form of a green apple flavor, which I found too off-putting to make the beer fully enjoyable.
Tried
on 09 Jul 2018
at 02:10