7.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

12 ounce bottle into pint glass, bottled on 7/4/2016. Pours slightly hazy/cloudy deep reddish copper/orange color with a 1-2 finger dense light khaki head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings down the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation retaining the head. Aromas of caramel, brown sugar, brown bread, toasted biscuit, cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamom, ginger, clove, light roast, and herbal/toasted earthiness. Very nice aromas with good balance and complexity of dark/bready malt and spice notes; with good strength. Taste of big caramel, brown sugar, brown bread, toasted biscuit, cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamom, ginger, clove, light roast, and herbal/toasted earthiness. Light herbal/roast bitterness and spiciness on the finish; with lingering notes of caramel, brown sugar, brown bread, toasted biscuit, cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamom, ginger, clove, light roast, and herbal/toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Damn nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/bready malt and spice flavors; with a great malt/bitter/spiciness balance, and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Light dryness from bitter/spiciness, lightly increasing through the glass. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, moderately creamy/bready, and lightly sticky balanced mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 5.5%. Overall this is a very nice spiced American amber ale. All around nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/bready malt and spice flavors; very smooth and easy to drink. A spot on amber ale to style, with balanced spice flavors. A very enjoyable offering.

3.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 2.5

Super hazy golden coloured body with a thinnish, two centimetre tall tan head. Aroma of nasty tomato, salt, pickles, malt, alcohol and a bit of fake sugars - funky, and you’d think this was a bloody mary if you had your eyes closed. Medium-bodied; Super funky flavour of salt, pickles, alcohol, grain, tomatoes, more salt, more tomato juice and a bit of vegetables. Aftertaste shows the salt and tomatoes for sure with a little alcohol and the slightest hint of sugars, but this is purely funky and interesting for sure. Overall, an odd beer with a lot of flavour - salty and tomatoes for sure that is good if you want this, or expect this, but just plain crazy if you are ’used’ to typical beers. I had to chug this one to get it down, but it wasn’t the worst beer ever when I got to the end...but it kind of started that way. That said, it was interesting to try, and if I saw something else similar to this, I’d probably buy it again. I sampled this sixteen ounce can purchased from Merchant’s in Dearborn, Michigan on 24-July-2015 for US$2,79 sampled at home in Washington on 20-September-2016.

8

Heavy blueberry flavor, delicious

6

It's good...in small doses.

5.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Sampled on draft at Crave this beer poured a reddish caramel color with a large fluffy orange-white head that left decent lacing. The aroma was cherry and toffee. The flavor was sourish cherry wit bread and a bit of caramel. Medium length finish. Medium body.

3.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 1.5

Can. Cloudy amber. Taste is full blown IPA. Fer sure this stuff is boozy. No way is it 4.6%, I’d say closer to 6. I’m no eye-pah expert, but this is thick mouth coating stuff. Feels like I’m chewing on green grapefruit rinds. Ahhhh, go figger, it says it has grapefruit in it? Whewie, right on style for an IPA, ferget dah session my friend. Since I don’t like IPA, I am not impressed. If you like IPA you better try this happy BS! It’s terribly on style.