Subsidiaries
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
On tap at the brewery. Aroma is malty with some light caramel notes and moderate cracker notes. Moderate grapefruit notes with some faint tropical fruit. Some nice resinous and dank notes. Pours a fairly clear, gold with a small, white head that lingers for quite some time on the edges. Moderate lacing and small legs. Flavor is moderately malty with nice cracker malt notes and some light biscuit and caramel. Moderate bitterness. Hop character is fairly dank with a strong resin note. Medium grapefruit notes with some light citrus and faint tropical fruit. Mouthfeel is medium bodied with medium carbonation. Low astringency and low alcohol warmth. Overall, another nice pale ale with more of a classical style.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Jun 2015
at 18:49
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
On tap at the brewery. Aroma has a medium light pale, cracker malt note. Good fruity and citrus hop aromas. Pours a hazy, gold with a small, white head that lingers for quite some time on the edges. Moderate lacing and small legs. Flavor has a light sweetness with some pale, cracker malt notes. Moderate bitterness. Moderate hop notes with citrus dominating and lighter tropical fruit. Faint stone fruit as well. Mouthfeel is medium light bodied with medium carbonation. Low astringnecy and low alcohol warmth. Overall, a great pale ale. Slightly sweeter than New Beer Smell. More citrus and less tropical fruit. It’s nice.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Jun 2015
at 18:04
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
On tap at the brewery. Aroma is moderately malty with some nice pale cracker and white bread notes. Moderate hop notes of tropical fruit, melon and citrus. Pours a hazy, gold with a small, white head that lingers for quite some time on the edges. Moderate lacing and small legs. Flavor is moderately malty with some nice cracker, biscuit and white bread notes. Moderate bitterness. Bright hop notes of citrus, tropical fruit and melon. Some light resin character. Mouthfeel is medium bodied with medium carbonation. Low astringency and low alcohol warmth. Overall, another nice pale from Cellarmaker. I?m really digging their pale ale style with balanced, lighter malts and bright new age fruity hops.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Jun 2015
at 17:30
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
The beer is a relatively light amber color. It has good clarity. Good seems like the wrong descriptor when I have a strong preference for Cellarmaker’s cloudy hoppy beers. Some lacing, white head, etc. The aroma is mild but has some nice tropical fruitiness. Mango, papaya, pineapple, kiwi. There’s a touch of caramel in the mild malt character. The tropical fruit flavors seem a bit delicate to shine in the taste, but it still has good hop flavor. It’s a bit like the aroma but without the sweet complexity. Moderate malt sweetness. Mild bitterness. Finishes fairly dry. Good dose of hop oiliness for the abv. It also drinks a bit bigger than the abv would suggest. Good pale ale but I think it could use a tweak.
Tried
on 23 Jun 2015
at 22:12
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
The beer is light tannish orange and hazy. Medium sized head, white. Lots of lacing. The aroma is juicy with a mix of fruity hop flavors. Peach, tangerine honeysuckle, pineapple, papaya, grapes. Just a tiny bit of crackery malt character in the background. Mild to moderate bitterness. Quite dry. Nice and crisp and light on the palate. Good hop flavor but there’s a bit of a peppery, grassy edge to it. A little hop oiliness to the feel. Very easy to drink. Yet another good pale ale from Cellarmaker.
Tried
on 23 Jun 2015
at 22:11
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
The beer is black with a medium-sized brown head. A little lacing. Nice even cap of foam. The aroma is big on fudgey chocolate with backing molasses sweetness. The roast comes in and gives the beer a mild smoky edge. Loads of vanilla. It has a definite s’more-ish quality. Toasty sugars on top of milk chocolate with a vanilla topping. Taste is fairly sweet but finishes with no cloy. Lots of vanilla. The vanilla pushes the darker malt flavors back somewhat. There’s some nice depth, but it’s a lot of sweet chocolate and vanilla. A tiny bit of grassy hops in the finish. Very fun to drink. Smooth feel matches well with the flavor. Very tasty beer. I tend to be sensitive to too much vanilla flavor, but this has no artificiality or sticky sweetness, so it works quite well. Plus, there’s a ton of chocolate, and the base beer is delicious on its own. Great work.
Tried
on 23 Jun 2015
at 22:05
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
The beer pours a pale straw-ish yellow color. It’s quite cloudy with a good-sized white head. Tons of lacing. Big, fruity aroma that is full of hops. Blackberry, melon, tangerine, strawberry, mango, peach, papaya. It’s a nice mix of sweet berries and citrus with tropical fruit flavors. Just a tiny bit of simple malt sugariness in the background. Quite juicy. The taste comes off a bit grassy when the beer is cold, but as it warms up, the flavors open up and a huge juicy, fruity hoppiness comes out. It’s strawberry-mango-tangerine juice with a long peachy, citrus peel finish. Quite dry but soft and extremely pleasant. Moderate to medium bitterness - it creeps up some. Soft feel with nice hoppiness. Lovely beer.
Tried
on 23 Jun 2015
at 00:26
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 8
On tap at APEX, RBSG
Hazy straw with a medium sized white head, lots if lacing. Aroma is citrus and grassy. Taste is fruity, grassy and bisquity
Nice
Hazy straw with a medium sized white head, lots if lacing. Aroma is citrus and grassy. Taste is fruity, grassy and bisquity
Nice
Tried
from Draft
on 22 Jun 2015
at 20:32
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
The beer is a very pale straw yellow. Cloudy. Almost a milky yellow color. Smallish white head. Dissipates after a minute. The aroma is big on the barrel flavor. Lots of chardonnay. Big fruit with just a little buttery oak. Nice. Mild tart grape and lacto note. Taste is fairly dry. Some fruity sweetness. Taste doesn’t quite live up to the aroma. Grapey with some nondescript oak. Just lacks a little funk depth. What funk is present is nice enough but mild. Light to medium feel.
Tried
on 22 Jun 2015
at 15:28
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
The beer is a light gold color. Good clarity. Medium white with some lacing. Fairly dank aroma, as described. Grapefruit rind, pine, some wildflowery honeysuckle flavor. Nice enough but the more delicate hop flavors are missing or simply overpowered. Mild caramel maltiness. Taste is medium bitter and really lacks much hop juiciness or flavor. It’s a bit bland. Some malt sweetness and a little caramel. Light feel. Not really bad but it seems quite old school, which the brewery clearly states in the description.
Tried
on 22 Jun 2015
at 15:24