Draught pint at the brewery, 12/12/15.
Clear brass-bronze colored beer has a slight chill-haze and a white head atop that shows moderate to strong retention.
Grainy, slightly cereal-like malt notes in the nose give a fairly accurate feel to the aroma. Some melon, hard water/minerals and a touch of vanilla round out the nose. Not brimming with aromatics, but then, most to-style bitters aren’t. No alcohol, or flaws, importantly.
Moderately sweet notes of honey and light corn mix with a moderately-strong melon flavor, as graininess dominates the finish. Not too sweet, though it could use a touch less, so much as it is thick and dextrinous. Light vanillin, corn and melon linger on the finish, with lots of hard water flavors and a strong breadiness. Fairly ample carbonation. There’s a lot of body, but not so much flavor. Beer kinda wears on and gets somewhat tiresome by the end of the pint. Not all that sessionable on account of the breadiness, sweetness and dextrinous texture. But it’s mostly clean, so that’s heartening. Would be really nice on cask, I bet.

Draft at the brewery taproom. Pours mostly clear gold with a creamy white head. Really intense hoppy aroma. A little cheesy in the nose, with notes of ripe lemon, hearty hops, grapefruit, tangerine. Medium sweet flavor with boosty alcohol kick, resinous pine, pale bread, grapefruit. Medium to full bodied with fine to average carbonation. Hot finish, with quite punchy hop character, pine, citrus, harsh grassy bitterness. It’s interesting, I suppose, but it really just too much. No nuance, and not very drinkable.

Draft at the brewery taproom. Pours clear, reddish gold with a creamy, tan head. Some hops in the nose, mango, orange. Light to medium sweet flavor with toasty malts, rindy orange, pine. Medium bodied with fine to average carbonation. Lightly resinous in the close, with mellow toffee, bread, oily pine. Nice one.

Draft at the brewery taproom. Pours clear, amber-gold with a white foam head. The nose holds bread, light toffee, butterscotch. Medium sweet flavor with sugary bread, toffee, light butter notes, soft leafy bitterness. Light bodied with fine to average carbonation. Sweet finish, a little sticky, some leaves, more toffee. Basic.

Somewhere between a 2 and 4oz draft pour at SAVOR 2015’s Saturday night session. Poured a dark, almost black-brown color with a small, very small tan head. Aroma was roasted notes of chocolate, some earthy hop notes. Light woody notes, delicious chocolate and a slightly bittersweet finish of roasted malts.