Subsidiaries
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
16 ounce can courtesy of northernbrews. Thanks! Pours a hazy straw color with a thin fizzy white head. Decent head retention. Aroma of bready malts, herbal notes spice and a faint bit of butter. The taste is citrus, spice, bread, tart finish, faint grass. Medium bodied.
Tried
from Can
on 28 Aug 2012
at 14:28
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
16 ounce can thanks to northernbrews! Thanks! I’ve really wanted to try this brewery., Pours a hazy orange-amber color. About 6 fingers of head atop 4 fingers of beer. Tan and frothy with good retention. Aroma of citrus, spicy and herbal hops, candi sugar, stone fruits, and an earthy note. The taste is herbal, leafy hops, citrus, candied citrus, stone fruits, pale malts, peppery and earthy notes. Medium bodied, low carbonation, smooth. Nice beer.
Tried
from Can
on 22 Aug 2012
at 23:52
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Sampled from the tap a the 15th annual MBGSF. Pours black with a dark brown head that dissipates slowly to the edges. Aroma has notes of Belgian yeast with some dark grain, roasted malts and a hint of chocolate. Flavor is smooth with creamy chocolate with some roasted malts and a bit of Belgian yeast.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Aug 2012
at 11:56
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Sampled from the tap at the 15th annual MBGSF. Pours a hazy pale yellowish gold with a white head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma kind of has a light passion fruit or guava note with some earthy grain and a good amount of oak as well as a hint of funk. Flavor has some light fruits with light grain and oak as well as an earthy/funkynote. Slightly muddled.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Aug 2012
at 11:54
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draft at the brewpub. Deep opaque chocolate-brown body, thin tight beige to light brown head. Roasty, inky nose with some prune and toffee. Body of chocolate liqueur, lots of inky roast and licorice, ashy with some deeper plum or cherry notes and cherry pit, finishing with ashy sweetness. Very nice.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Aug 2012
at 18:26
4.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Draft at the brewpub. Cloudy pisswater body, thin off-white ring of carbonation. Tangy, thin body with grain and buttery oak. Some green apple and vinegar in the nose and body. The subtleties of the base beer are pointlessly buried in oak and age. Not pleasant.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Aug 2012
at 18:18
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft at Brewery Vivant, Grand Rapids. Cloudy light yellow-brown body, medium dense creamy off-white head. Nose of banana and light spice, estery. Caky, estery, light body with light spice, but mostly banana and citrus peel, subtle yet refreshing. A nice session wheat.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Jul 2012
at 11:03
8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
16 ounce can into tulip glass, no canning date. Pours fairly crystal clear orange copper color with a nice 3 finger dense light khaki head with great retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lasts. Nice thick soapy lacing clings to the glass. Aromas of caramel, pine, grapefruit, orange zest, herbal, floral, toast, mango, pineapple, and slight yeast esters. Nice, pleasant, and well balanced aromas with decent strength. Taste of caramel, grapefruit, pine, orange zest, pineapple, mango, floral, toast, earth, and herbal spiciness. Good amount of spicy pine bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of citrus, caramel, toast, tropical fruit, and herbal spiciness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice balance of malt sweetness with bitterness; and good balance of hop flavors as well. Medium carbonation and body; with a fairly creamy and crisp mouthfeel that is good. Alcohol is well hidden as expected of 6.5%, with pretty much zero warming noticed after the finish. Overall this is a damn nice hoppy amber ale. I did not really get any Belgian influence from the flavors; but it had some very nice hop flavor complexity, and is very easy to drink. Really pleasant and enjoyable.
Tried
from Can
on 23 Jul 2012
at 19:41
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
On tap at Crunchy’s, East Lansing. Pulpy red-orange body, medium-thick clumping beige head. Big, juicy hops nose with lots of tangerine rind; floral and resinous with some pineapple esters. Bitter, sweet body with tangy citrus rind, pineapple, sugars, and some soapy/woody notes. Estery. Very good.
Tried
from Draft
on 05 Jun 2012
at 16:54
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
16 oz can. Pours a hazy golden with a white head. Yeasty clove aroma, maybe leaning a bit herbal. Yeasty cloves in the flavor too, but more complex, red apple hinting at red grape, slightly tart with a bretty hint and biscuit. Very slight sweetness, finishing dry. Quite enjoyable.
Tried
from Can
on 29 May 2012
at 20:37