7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can: Pours a orange copper color with a smaller white head. Aroma is malty and earthy, a bit of florals. Flavor is more malty than bitter, some caramel malt and fruitiness make the floral bitters a touch mellow. Nice wet sensation. This is not quite as bitter as expected, but still a pleasant summer ale. Thanks Tyler!
Tried
from Can
on 22 Aug 2008
at 22:41
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at Chris o’s…amber ... ligyt fruity hop nose ... fruity hop quite bready little pine
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Aug 2008
at 15:00
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle at Chris o’s…copper red ... piney american hops,tart american hops,over powerful
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Aug 2008
at 14:59
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at Chris o’s…deep brown... bright hoppy nose ... hoppy malty ale, over hopped
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Aug 2008
at 14:58
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pour was a brown with a tan head. Aroma was quite hoppy for a brown with seom nots of caramel and chocolate. Flavor was more of a roasted malt with some chocolate and roasted nuts. A decent brown.
Tried
on 11 Aug 2008
at 18:27
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Canned. Amber colour, small white head. Aroma is grass, flowery and fruity hops along with mild notes f vanilla. Flavour is flowery, fruity and wellbalanced. A quite mouthdrying brew.
Tried
from Can
on 07 Aug 2008
at 19:01
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
At Oregon Brewers Festival 2008 Pours out a dark brown topped with a tan head. Holly coffee batman. Aroma was very nice. Tast more of the coffee and some sweetness from chocolate. A very tasty brew. I think they should have called with one Coffee Blender.
Tried
on 04 Aug 2008
at 22:56
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Can at Chris_o Pre GBBF Shindig 08. I love these Surly canned beers. Copper colour, lasting beige head. Lots of hops on aroma. Good leafy hop, but it doesn’t stand up in the mouth. Some toffee on the malts. Dies a bit after that good pink grapefruit aroma. Goes to show it takes a lot of skill to make a tasty lower ABV beer.
Tried
from Can
on 04 Aug 2008
at 15:01
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Courtesy of tpd975. Pours deep dark brackish brown with thin tan head. The aroma is roasty dark malts and chocolate blending into notes of cranberries, ripe strawberries and other assorted fruits. Pleasing mild mix of aromas. The taste starts with a quick pulse of dark malts to chocolate malts to thick sticky malt sweetness and turns quickly toward somewhat unripe fruit tartness. This fruit tartness persists and rides all the way to the finish with notes of dark, sweet and chocolate malts showing up from time to time and growing some into the finish.
Tried
on 03 Aug 2008
at 09:34
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Clear amber with large white head. Sweet aroma with hoppy and caramel notes. Sweet flavor with floral hops and fruity notes. Ends bitter.
Tried
on 03 Aug 2008
at 06:56