6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Can at America on Tap Light golden color with a bubbly white head. Sweet rich caramel and bready maltiness generally overpowers the flavor and aromas from the hops. Not horrible, but needs some dryness.
Tried
from Can
on 11 Oct 2015
at 12:40
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Can at America on Tap Deep golden color with a frothy white head. Rich bready caramel maltiness with hints of citrus and pine to counter. A bit on the sweet side for my tastes but decent enough.
Tried
from Can
on 11 Oct 2015
at 12:36
8.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Can poured into pint glass from Lucia’s Bodega, Windham NH. Aroma is strong chocolate, vanilla, and roasted malt with hint of coffee, fruit, and liquor. Appearance is pitch black with negligible, transient coating of light brown head and no lacing. Taste is sweet chocolate, vanilla with smoke/ash and mild coffee bitterness. Palate is medium bodied with creamy thick texture from the lactose, average carbonation and nice long balance of sweet and bitter finish with a pleasant sensation between the back teeth. Overall, this is a nice beer.
Tried
from Can
on 01 Oct 2015
at 20:35
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Autumn Brew Review 2015. Hazy red color. Dry and earthy. Lots of malt, making it sweet. Very little hop presence. not a lot going on here, but the flavor is good.
Tried
on 29 Sep 2015
at 10:17
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Keg at the Ginger Man - NYC. Pours rich brown with a lasting, creamy beige head. The nose holds burnt pine, light roast, milk chocolate. Medium sweet flavor with creamy chocolate character, some burnt caramel, light smoke, bitter earth and pine. Medium bodied with fine carbonation and velvety mouthfeel. Finishes sweet, lightly warming, with slick chocolate, oily pine, some bitter char. Not bad overall.
Tried
on 23 Sep 2015
at 15:30
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft. Hazy golden amber color, medium white head. Aroma of mixed summer fruit. Taste is softly sour stonefruit. Extra appearance point for the name.
Tried
from Draft
on 31 Aug 2015
at 15:52
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
Reminds me a lot of the typical fruit beer. Smells really good and the taste is more dull than sweet fruity. The smell is not artificial and its quite appealing to the nose. Turns a little medicinal towards the finish. Smell saves it from being a below average fruit beer.
Tried
on 30 Aug 2015
at 19:38
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Location: 16 oz can from Winooski Beverage, 7/31/15, #125 of July 2015, I guess the last one wasn't my last beer of the month...
Aroma: The nose is fairly hoppy, dank and resiny, pine, and some tropical hops as well
Appearance: It pours an orange color with a thin off-white head and some fairly drippy lacing
Flavor: The flavor is fairly bitter as well, a little fruity, but leans more resiny / hoppy taste-wise
Palate: It is medium-plus bodied, quite smooth and clean, with a soft carbonation, and a dry close
Overall Impression: I was actually pretty impressed by this beer. I had mixed feeling, as I wasn't expecting a ton from these guys. My other Finch's beers haven't been super amazing, but this one is quite nice.
Aroma: The nose is fairly hoppy, dank and resiny, pine, and some tropical hops as well
Appearance: It pours an orange color with a thin off-white head and some fairly drippy lacing
Flavor: The flavor is fairly bitter as well, a little fruity, but leans more resiny / hoppy taste-wise
Palate: It is medium-plus bodied, quite smooth and clean, with a soft carbonation, and a dry close
Overall Impression: I was actually pretty impressed by this beer. I had mixed feeling, as I wasn't expecting a ton from these guys. My other Finch's beers haven't been super amazing, but this one is quite nice.
Tried
from Can
on 31 Jul 2015
at 18:46
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Deep amber and copper coloured body with a rich ruby and brown glow and a thinnish, single centimetre tall tan head. Aroma of yeast, bread, alcohol, malt, caramel and a bit of nuts. Medium-bodied; Very bready and yeastie flavours abound with a lot of malt and nuttiness, some subdued caramel and pit fruit sweetness, and more body and yeast at the end. Aftertaste is fairly one-sided with yeast and malts with only a touch of sugars and no real complexity. Overall, a decent beer, but not as robust as it could have been, given the style. I sampled this 50 cL can purchased from Total Wine in Alexandria, Virginia on 17-May-2015 for US$2,24 sampled at home in Washington on 17-July-2015, exactly two months later, a few minutes after purchasing my next trip to Chicago.
Tried
from Can
on 18 Jul 2015
at 01:09
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Poured from pint hazy golden color with a thin white head. Aromas of citrus caramel and pine. Taste is full mouth feel with hints of caramel and a lingering hop finish.
Tried
on 27 Jun 2015
at 18:06