6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle at Brewvival 2012. Pours clear golden with a frothy offwhite head. Decent head retention. Aroma of grass and caramel malts. The taste is grass, caramel malts, faint fruits. Medium bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Feb 2012
at 19:02
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Pours dirty orange with off white head. Nose/taste of bread, orange peel, grain, barley and sweet malt. Medium body. Clean and refreshing. Some hop bitterness in finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Dec 2011
at 13:36
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Very nice, easy-drinking beer from Palmetto, in a style that gets way too little attention. Lagery, grainy nose, with a slight hop backbone, but that slightness grows greatly in the taste. The hops keep any unpleasant fruitiness from developing; rather, the beer finishes dry and bitter with some grain underneath. Well-layered, pretty, one of the brewery’s best.
Tried
on 02 Dec 2011
at 13:35
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Pours black. Light beige head. Nose/taste of fresh coffee beans, espresso, cocoa and vanilla. Body is a little on the thin side. Finishes with fresh coffee beans and burnt black malt.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Sep 2011
at 19:34
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Seems more English than American Pale Ale, with a lot of malt piling up on top of a piney, mildly citric finish. The malts are grainy and pretty nice, but more hops are needed on the finish to tighten up the brew. (2/08)
Tried
from Can
on 31 May 2011
at 19:23
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Quite the drinkable new IPA from Palmetto. Sweet, citrus-laced malts fade into a moderately piney, floral finish, with a grainy undercurrent bolstering things. The texture is smooth and easygoing, the slightly-raised ABV undetectable amidst the brisk, bitter aftertaste. Uses the Falconer’s Flight hop, some new-fangled hop full of all that citrus them damn kids like these days. Well-made, and it’s wicked easy to put back a couple.
Tried
on 18 May 2011
at 18:58
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Palmetto makes a tasty coffee porter, a beer I find quite underrated in its home town. Espresso Porter strikes a solid balance between English porter and coffee, neither sweet and fruity nor acidic and burnt-tasting. A little more body would bolster the beer, but other than that, there’s not much to complain about. Plus, this beer makes a perfect way to start someone’s transition from coffee-drinker to dark beer-drinker.
Tried
on 20 Mar 2011
at 20:02
4.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 2.5
Charleston Lager’s best feature, its looks, will keep you happy for a few seconds. Not too much positive after that.
Tried
on 20 Mar 2011
at 19:57
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
A dark reddish brown porter with a thick moka head. In aroma, loads of coffee grinds over caramel malts. In mouth, a smooth coffeee porter with nice herbal hops, coffee grinds, quite nice. On tap at Brewvival, Feb. 26 2011.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Mar 2011
at 18:22
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
A hazed orange amber IPA with a thin white head. In aroma, biscuitty malt aroma, butterscotch and English hops. In mouth, a good citrusy hops, oranges and pink and grapefruits, pinhey notes, very nice. On tap at Brewvival, Feb. 26 2011.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Mar 2011
at 18:14