5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Refrigerated 12 oz. brown bottle poured into a weizen glass. Hazy golden with small white head. Aroma is wheat esters, light body, lower carbonation, and some lacing. Taste is grainy wheat and some esters. Below average Hefeweizen.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 May 2018
at 01:04
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
12 ounce can into tulip glass, canned on 2/23/2018. Pours slightly hazy/cloudy medium golden yellow color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense and rocky off white head with great retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Nice dense soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a light amount of streaming carbonation. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of big lemon, orange, grapefruit, peach, pineapple, apricot, passion fruit, mango, melon, berry, citrus peel/rind, green pepper, pine, toasted bread, light honey, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of citrus/fruity/tropical/earthy hops and moderate pale malt notes; with great strength. Taste of big lemon, orange, grapefruit, peach, pineapple, apricot, passion fruit, mango, melon, berry, citrus peel/rind, green pepper, pine, toasted bread, light honey, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Light-moderate pine, citrus peel/rind, herbal, grassy, peppery bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of lemon, orange, grapefruit, peach, pineapple, apricot, passion fruit, mango, melon, berry, citrus peel/rind, green pepper, pine, toasted bread, light honey, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a while. Great complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/tropical/earthy hops and moderate pale malt flavors; with an awesome malt/bitterhess balance, and zero lingering hop astringency after the finish. Light-moderate increasing dryness from bitterness. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, moderately bready/grainy/sticky, and fairly resinous/rindy balanced mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol for 6%. Overall this is an excellent IPA. All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/tropical/earthy hops and moderate pale malt flavors; very smooth and easy to drink with the modestly bitter/drying finish, never aggressive. Really great balance between juicy, vibrant, dank, and earthy hop complexity; with a solid pale malt backbone, and minimal residual sweetness. A very enjoyable offering, loved the Aussie hop profile as expected.
Tried
from Can
on 24 Apr 2018
at 00:33
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Quite hazy golden and copper coloured body with a nice, albeit relatively fast-dying three centimetre tall tan head. Aroma of pure lavender, honey, grain, light alcohol, quite a bit of yeast and breads with a touch of vanilla and floral hops, but this really is about the sweetness and the flowers/lavender here. Medium-bodied; Biting floral elements at first with a big dose of sweetness from honey and caster sugar along with a light herbal character and finishing with a touch of the alcohol. Aftertaste shows some dry flowers, a lot of malt and grain and a nice and robust sweetness which seems to last for quite a long time, especially at the end. Overall, a nice and respectable beer offering that seems to really showcase the honey and sugars, but also leave a nice floral and lightly spiced complexity over the course of the whole beer - this one shows like a saison with extra lavender and a ton more honey. Very nice to sample and well worth trying to find if you can grab it still? I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Siciliano's in Grand Rapids, Michigan on 13-June-2017 for US$2,39 by my dad - Thanks Dad for bringing this back home, sampled at home in Washington after seeing the Cherry Blossoms on 05-April-2018.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Apr 2018
at 06:58
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
On tap at Corner Brewery. Pours black with an off-white head. Aroma is cocoa, roasty, coffee. Flavor is heavily sweet chocolate, molasses, lactose, some roastiness. This is really, really sweet.
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Mar 2018
at 04:34
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
On tap at Corner Brewery. Pours a deep gold, clear, with a white head. Grapefruit and orange citrus hop aromas with lots of pine hop aromas. Aroma "sticky" overall. Pine, grapefruit, floral hop flavors, fairly strong bitterness with low sweetness. Good. Maybe it could use just a touch more body.
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Mar 2018
at 04:32
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
On tap at Corner Brewery. Pours a clear red amber with a white head. Cherry and apple aroma, tart. Flavor has cherry, white grape, apple. Lightly tart. Clear flavors without a lot of complication. It's pretty nice.
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Mar 2018
at 04:28
6/10
Tried
on 18 Feb 2018
at 17:49
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6
Refrigerated 12 oz. brown bottle poured into a glass. Black with some dark brown highlights with small beige head. Aroma is chocolate, medium/thick body, lower carbonation, and little lacing. Taste is spice, chocolate, and some malt.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Dec 2017
at 18:33
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
On tap at ABC Microbrewery. Pours deep brown to black. Aroma is smoky and molasses. Flavor has molasses and smoke, cocoa, marshmallow. It's decent.
Tried
from Draft
on 24 Nov 2017
at 22:21
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
On tap at ABC Microbrewery. A clear gold pour with a white head. Citrusy grapefruit aroma. Flavor is kind of simple grapefruit, tart, and a touch of salt. A pretty simple one, but it's solid and focused. It achieves what it says.
Tried
from Draft
on 24 Nov 2017
at 22:19