7.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Here at this bar, they’really calling this a West coast style ipa. I think it’s going in that direction, but doesn’t quite cut it.

7.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Keg at Bridge - St. Louis. Pours clear yellow with a lasting, creamy white head. Tangy apple in the nose, with hints of white grape and melon gummies. Light-medium sweet flavour with pleasant lemony tartness, a bit of apple skin bitterness, some salt. Light bodied with fine, spritzy carbonation. Good and clean on the finish, with a little salty sweat, more tart lemon. Great stuff overall. Hugely drinkable.

4

Kind of flat. Could be better.

8.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Purchased at Bottles and Cans in Chicago, IL; enjoyed at home after a long Sunday of grocery shopping. Appearance is pitch black, moderately thick with a rich and bubbly tan head. Aroma is very much of bourbon and chocolate with coffee notes, I could smell it while I was pouring it. Taste is rather carbonated for the style, but is very good, mix of bourbon, chocolate, vanilla, coffee. Good stuff!

7.9

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

12 ounce bottle. Translucent dark brown pour. Big frothy tan head with a nice clinging lace. Subtle sulphury roasted malt nose. Complex roasted malt flavor with hints of bakers chocolate, burnt toast and resiny hops. A subtle smokiness comes through in finish along with complex hoppy bitterness.

4.4

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

Hazy deep copper coloured body with a very thick off-white head, rather soapy and at about five centimetres tall. Aroma of grass, hay, yeast, bananas and some pungent and nice bubble gum. Medium-bodied; Assertive yeast qualities with some bread and a good bit of malt. Aftertaste shows some dry herbal hoppiness with a little grass, a little malt and grain and finishes with a touch of sweetness, but some noticeable hops throughout. Overall, a good light belgian-based IPA that shows well throughout, but not a category changer at all. I sampled this twelve ounce can purchased from Liqour Outelt in Boonton, New Jersey on 22-December-2015 for US$1,34 sampled at home in Washington on 03-March-2016.

8.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8

12 ounce bottle. Pours a dense opaque black color with a smal creamy tan head. Rich roasted malt nose. Notes of prunes and black coffee. Sweet roasted malt flavor has big coffee and dark dried fruit notes. A bit of treacle and black licorice comes through here. Chewy and sticky with earthy coffee notes. A real sipper is this one. Sweet and sticky from first sip to last swallow. She’s so heavy...heavy...heavy.......

5.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Pour is a murky orange with a large white head. Aroma is a mild hop but there is a huge caramel malt sweetness. Flavor is more of a herbal hop but then come the heavy sweet malt. Way too sweet and the malt bill is way too heavy. The malt here is just too heavy and sweet to let the hops do their thing.

6.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5

Pour is a clear orange with a large white head. Aroma fills the nose with a decent helping of floal piney hops. Flavor is more of a minor hop with a honeydew melon flavor that gets a bit stale after awhile. Finish is clean and a bit dull. I did not get much of a Belgian aspect out of this. This is kind of a session ale thats a bit low on the flavor profile.

7

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

12 oz. bottle, a one-off from De Bierkoning, at home. Amber color, hazy. Sticky white head with reasonable retention. Aroma’s of sweet malts and earthy and herbal hops. Earthy hops iare more upfront retronasal, with some sweet fruit. Flavor is moderate sweet and moderate to full bitter. medium bodied. Long, earthy and herbal bitter finish. Decent.