Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
~8 oz draft pour at a beer dinner at Transparent Brewing in Grandview, Missouri. This was served with the 4th (main) course. The pour is a clear yellow golden with a 1/2 inch loose white head. The aroma is a cracker malt with some herbal yeast grass behind that. The taste is the cracker malt, herbal grass and a bit of off flavor to the back hat lingers as cardboard. The palate is medium to light bodied with softer carbonation and the grass cardboard in the finish. Just OK.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
~8 oz draft pour at a beer dinner at Transparent Brewing in Grandview, Missouri. This was served with the 1st course. The pour is a cloudy brown copper with a minimal off white head. The aroma is toffee, caramel, grass and peat moss. The taste is big malt toffee, caramel, a cherry tart sweet ad peat, wood and grass carry the finish. The palate is medium to heavier bodied with natural carbonation and the clean malt and peat grass finish. Nice Wee Heavy.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
~8 oz draft pour at a beer dinner at Transparent Brewing in Grandview, Missouri. This was served with the final dessert course. The pour is a brown golden with a slight haze and a minimal off white head. The aroma is slightly stale coffee, lactose cream, and roast char. The taste is nutty malt, caramel, slight roast coffee. The lactose comes out as the beer warms and carries the finish. The palate is light bodied with soft natural carbonation, soft roast and a sweet lactose milkiness in the finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Half pour in a goblet glass at the Transparent Brewing Company in Grandview, Missouri. The pour is clear golden with a smallish white head. Nice lace left behind. The aroma is grass, leaf, herbal and mineral earth. The taste is the leafy herbal right away, followed by soft citrus floral and finishing with mineral and grass. The palate is light bodied with nice carbonation and the mineral finish. Nice body for a Session IPA. Solid.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Half pour in a goblet glass at the Transparent Brewing Company in Grandview, Missouri. The pour is . The aroma is dank hop, a bit of onion, floral and a nice cereal toasted malt. The taste is clean fresh dank citrus hop balanced nicely with the toasted cereal malt. The palate is medium to light bodied with soft natural carbonation and a floral dank finish. Nice one, easy drinking.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Half pour in a goblet glass at the Transparent Brewing Company in Grandview, Missouri. The pour is slight haze reddish orange with a small foamy white head. The aroma is soft peat, toffee malt and a bit of grass. The taste is the peat with a whisper of smoke, then the strong malt character of toffee and a bit of crystal malt Iced Tea finishing with additional fruit sweetness. The palate is medium bodied with active natural carbonation and a sweetish than smoke peat finish. Fun beer, unique flavor profile, I liked this one.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Half pour in a goblet glass at the Transparent Brewing Company in Grandview, Missouri. The pour is opaque brown black with a smallish tan head that leaves nice lace. The aroma is caramel, toffee and roast coffee. The taste is smooth char roast coffee then moves to mild caramel toffee malt sweet then finishes dry with more roast and pine. The palate is medium bodied with soft natural carbonation and the mineral roast pine dry finish. Nice stout.