Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Draught at The Railway Club, Vancouver. Clear reddish amber, thick creamy head. Aroma of licorice and roasty malt. Fairly light bodied with clean mouthfeel. The hops adds grapefruit and pleasantly perfumy schampoo as well as good bitterness. The hop character is delicious!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5
Bright amber colour. Clean, sweet raspberry nose. Fairly bland with a slight kiss of raspberry and vague bready malts. Quick finish. Yes, it’s meant to be light and unassertive but the malts are too toasty and raspberry too laid back. Moreover, it’s not terribly complex, even by raspberry wheat standards.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Very dark colour with light brown nitro head. Hints of coffee in the faint aroma. Flavour is coffeeish with light roast and low-med bitterness. There is a hint of chocolate. A little watery in the finish (a nitrogen effect). Ok, but muted.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Cloudy light gold, off white head. Light citrus aroma. Faint malt with a citrus profile and a fizzy light citrus ending
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3
Golden brown with thick nitro head. Only a bit of toast in the virtually nonexistent aroma. Rounded coffee-toast palate with a hint of phenols retronasal. Muddled finish lacks any cohesive flavour or sense of purpose - thanks, nitrogen.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Dark copper colour. The aroma has the standard "American amber" mix of earthy crystal malts and floral, slightly citrusy C-hops. Tastes pretty much like pommelo, eaten fresh in SE Asia. A little toasty. Rounded and balanced with a lingering, dry finish. The most assertive of the Central City beers I’ve had to date.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Light, very bright copper colour. Slightly toasty malt in the faint aroma. Earthy, nutty malts, metallic accents in the palate. Not really bockish, more marzenlike. Dryish, earthy finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Re-rate: Opaque yellow-tan. Malty, citrusy aroma (lemon, kumquat). Light body. Malt accent. Some light coriander, tangerine. Overall very watery, which obfuscates the flavours. There’s a decent beer under there somewhere, but it’s just far too watery.
Very pale straw colour with foggy sedimentation. Not much aroma, maybe a hint of honeydew. Flavour is crisp, wheaty with hints of bubblegum, mint, passion fruit, sugar. Finishes with a sweet & sour interplay between sugary malt notes and wheaty acidity. First rating: Ar 3, Ap 2, F 6, P 4, O 12
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Straw colour with a rich head. Sweet aroma of honeyed malts and biscuits. Slightly crisp hops balance against fresh honeyish malts. Grassy hop finish is dryish. Light body and character. Good balance.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Golden amber with a thick head. Orangey, woody citrus nose. Has some chewy stickiness but lots of hop richness and orangey notes. The finish is probably more sticky than dry, but with a little bit of both.