7/10
Aroma is honey, malt, caramel. Taste follows. Color looks like honey. Sweet blonde ale.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Aug 2023
at 18:21
7/10
Light citrus, spice, more earthy notes with lingering bitterness.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Aug 2023
at 17:18
8/10
Soft, juicy, nice flavors and use of hops. Pretty smooth and balanced with a light bitter finish.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Aug 2023
at 17:10
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Can pour from Twisted Fate Brewery. It's a deeply hazy dark yellow with ring of off-white head with fair retention and light lacing. Aroma is sweet citrus, candied fruit--something a bit medicinal/artificial about it. Taste is nondescript fruit with an almost smoky element. Mouthfeel is light-to-medium bodied with smooth texture, soft carbonation and lingering bitterness. Overall, though I purchased this within the last 4 months, I think this wasn't perfectly fresh. Either that, or this just didn't wasn't executed well.
Tried
from Can
on 13 May 2023
at 02:41
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Brewery draught, 12/1/22. Low haze, heavy brass-bronze. Good, staunch, creamy, white head. Heavy earth, mineral, dry white wine and hints of honey. Good stonefruit and gooseberry. Clean, no resin, twang, booze. Some coconut lingering. Soft, dry, malty, typical white grape, gooseberry and some galaxy resin, despite there being no galaxy. Love the texture, sour gummies, coconut, pineapple and white wine. Wouldn't hate a bit more deep/rich base malt for balance. The gooseberry-pine note really dries it out alongside the light pine.
Tried
on 01 Dec 2022
at 21:03
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Brewery draught, 12/1/22. Deep bronze-brass-maize, heavily hazy. White head shows moderate retention. Juicy, fruity, light touch of bubble gum, low hop acidity. Pretty standard. Clean, no booze or twang. Soft, malty, aggressively kveiky (I hate this yeast in NEIPAs, it's way too yeasty and exacerbates the fruit, juice and low bitterness). Good maltiness, lingering light pine, heavy citrus, mango and bubble gum. Low bitterness, but some yeasty astringency from phenols lingering.
Tried
on 01 Dec 2022
at 20:46
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Brewery draught, 12/1/22. Ebony. Off-white head slowly to ring. Chocolate, vanilla, low sugar. Basic, but clean with good, fruity yeast. Roasty, very chocolatey, just the slightest hint of bourbon spice. Soft, malty, medium-bodied texture with good attenuation. Lingering vanilla and coffee.
Tried
on 01 Dec 2022
at 20:38
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Brewery draught, 12/1/22. More auburn than the marzen, clear, small, off-white head, low retention. Fruity, nutty, specialty malt forward. Seems very marzen-like, not so much Festbier. Clean, though. Nutty, toasty, malty but drying out heavily with heavy specialty malt. Lower hop character, less base malt than the marzen. Again, clean, but not to style.
Tried
on 01 Dec 2022
at 20:30
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Brewery draught, 12/1/22. Clear blonde with some brass. Small, white head. Nose shows a good depth of buttercream malt to balance the egg nog spice. Clean, no alcohol, not over spiced. Soft, malty, great depth and attenuation, spice can mong on strong but not overdone through the middle lingering with some astringency on the finish to creat a balanced, dry beer.
Tried
from Can
on 01 Dec 2022
at 20:20
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Brewery draught, 12/1/22. Clear auburn-amber. Big, creamy, beige head showing moderate retention. Nice mix of hop herbals, pepper, hint of toast, nuts and red fruits from specialty malt and reasonable base malt honey and bread. Clean. Soft, malty, toasty, light herbal and spice notes. Good balance, rather dry, maybe a touch lacking in malt depth but clean.
Tried
on 01 Dec 2022
at 20:17