Bottle at Stockholm Beer Festival, 2007-09-20, 5-3-4-2-9=23
Beautiful amber color. If the aroma has some malt, don’t seek further in the flavor. Light mouthfeel. Poor.

Bottle in New York, 2007-01-01, 6-3-6-3-13=31
Amber color. Malty nose. Also the taste is malty; reminds me some German Lager. Balanced.

Plastic pint pour at the brewpub. Color is orange/gold and absolutely clear. Aroma is a meaty sweetness (not smoke), some sugary flowers with some sweet cereal. Taste is a thick lemon-like biscuit malt and something I like to call "a german sweetness that you know shouldn’t be there." Finishes malty lemon and thick on the palate yet a light-medium drinkable body. A very strange beer, billed as an Amsterdam-inspired brew, yet it definitely taste like a sweet German beer. So I give it points for originality. Definitely would like to drink again.

Taster at brewpub. I kind of just refused to buy 6 packs of this for the price of their regular offerings. However, a free taster is fine enough and even worth rating. But overall this was actually a surprisingly decent brew. Color is dark yellow and completely lucid. A lightly sweet corn with mostly a refreshing maltiness, can’t really describe it any better. I don’t taste any lemon as the description says but it was definitely a crisp maltiness. Taste is a refreshing slightly estery maltiness peppered with light biscuit. A bunch of breweries make a light or lawnmower or summer beer but this is actually a decent one. Thirst quenching and recommended for that.

Taster at brewpub. Orange/copper color, clear beer. A sweet nutty maltiness, some light floral hoppiness. Taste is mineral with light citrus fruit and lightly malty. Easy drinking and thirst quenching. A very nice mix of nutty lager and a lightly hopped American ale. I would say this is a Vienna/APA mix. Definitely returnable and recommended.7/3/6/3/14

Re-rate from growler: very different brew the 2nd time around. Still the same color but has a beautiful large head. Aroma has gone all the way hoppy and looses and of the lagered maltiness and nuttiness it had before. Aroma is all hops with light citrus, light pine and light sweet hops. Taste is similar and finishes with light bitterness and extremely easy drinking. A definite improvement.7/4/7/3/15

Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a spectacularly vibrant ruby-copper color with only a hint of a tang head. The aroma was sour, tart and tangy with a hint of vinegar. The flavor was sour, tangy, nutty and dry with a hint of vinegar and a long dry finish. Eh.

This year’s version is not the beer I had last year - I don’t remember rye being present, and now it’s the dominant flavor in the beer - much fuller body on this one, too - it’s a little bit sweet, but the rye and hop bitterness do a decent job og making it tolerable - not bad - //////// I’ve had several pints of this at this point, both from the tap and out of a growler, and I still can’t exactly pinpoint the style (the folks pulling the taps at the brewery didn’t really know) - all I can tell is that it is a dark-colored lager, so "american dark lager" it is - of course, this does not speak well for the beer - it lacks any distinct, defining characteristics - dark copper with minimal head, despite a fizzy body - lighty bready aroma, with hints of toasted grain and very faint whiffs of malt - light-bodied, with a moderate, spicy hop profile - buttery qualities mix fairly well with a slight nuttiness - the background offers faint hints of bock-ish malt flavors - this beer really isn’t sure what it wants to be when it grows up; all it knows is it wants you to drink it, and that’s okay with me - it’s a nice, quaffable spring beer, regardless of its lack of character.

Pours gold with a little red. has a Small fizzy white head. Citrus and grassy hops are present, but not as strong as in most IPAs. Floral and fruity sweetness are also there, as well as some malt. Nice, but could use a stronger aroma. Medium, creamy body. Has a very good flavor, but again, not like an IPA. Sweet fruit, citrus, and floral hops are the most noticeable. A touch of grass comes through in the light bitter finish. I don’t see the india part of this pale ale. Pretty decent, though.

Tap at Brickhouse, to clear things up Blue Point actually brews everything for the Brickhouse. Poured into a pint glass, color is very dark pale, complete clarity. Aroma is slightly burnt, slightly sweet. Very ESB-ish, british quality. Similar aspect in the taste, a bit watered down though. A perfectly light medium body for this kind of beer. Decent enough and very quafable. I wonder how this would taste on cask.