Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Draught at Cheeky Monkey, 9/9/18.
Very slightly hazy, glowing auburn-to-copper. Off-white head fades quickly to a ring.
Very little aroma. Maybe just a touch of attenuated base malt, clean ale yeast. Definitely no habanero and it would be reaching to say you could tell there was added fruit here. Again, though, it's clean with no alcohol.
In the mouth it's fine, clean, attenuated, modestly carbonated. Some very light habanero spice on the end, though no real heat. Guava is there, I suppose, but again it's stretched very thin. Hops are very, very light. Just a touch of nectarine, very light mango and some lemon and orange. Not much to see here, but it's drinkable.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Draught at the...whatever this place is. I thought they were fermenting wort here, but after visiting on 9/9/18, I'm not convinced that is the case; they may just be receiving finished beer.
Clear, blonde-to-peach-golden. White head fades steadily to a ring.
Not much to speak of in the nose. Very light malts, clean ale yeast producing very minimal fruit ester and pretty low hopping rates showing light orange, light lemon and maybe an afterthought of peach and nectarine. No alcohol or flaw, though.
In the mouth it's similar. Texture is fairly substantial and attenuation is good, so that's a plus. There's just very little flavor here. Peach, orange, lemon, very light hint of mango...base malts give biscuit, dough and light honey. Clean, with somewhat high carbonation and no alcohol noted. Can definitely deal with low flavor as long as their beers are clean and on the dry side, so that was a pleasant surprise.