6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6
12 ounce bottle from Vintage Cellar in Blacksburg, VA. Pours a pale golden amber with a medium head. Poor head retention and lacing. Aroma is tart apricot with subte bready notes. Taste is bread and tart apricots. I like the tartness in this one. Medium bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Mar 2009
at 16:33
5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
bottle - Pours dark brown with a huge, lingering tan head. The aroma is really in your face hazelnut. I can make out a little roast malt in the background. The flavor was more hazelnut and very bland otherwise. It’s thin and has far too little roast malt character and nothing else besides those nuts. What are they thinking here? Not good. (weird, I just noticed I’ve had 3 Sea Dog beers and rated them all a 2.4 total. I guess they’re extremely consistent about not being good.)
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Feb 2009
at 21:25
4.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 4
12 oz bottle from a Winter Beer 10 Pack purchased at World Market for me by my wife. Best enjoyed before March 09 notched on label. Pour is slight hazed golden ruby, active settling leads to a 1 1/2 inch white head. Aroma is dirty blueberries, some waxy wheat behind that. The blueberry smell is pretty unnatural smelling, more like blueberry pie filling out of a can. Taste is really chemical falsely sweet blueberry. This is more like the blueberry filling in one of those hostess pie things. Wheat is present, and is also very unclean. Palate is waxy and slick, long NutraSweet aftertaste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Feb 2009
at 09:18
5.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Got this under the Trader Joe’s pseudonym: Kennebunkport IPA. Off-white quickly descending head. Amber color. Weak hops aroma. Weak hop taste. Mostly mediocre malts. Very slight citrus. Mediocre IPA, but fortunately, IPA is a good style of beer, so a bad IPA is really not so bad.
Tried
on 22 Feb 2009
at 15:36
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle at Svea, Malmö
Hazy amber color. Caramel aroma, light. Strong caramel flavor, good bitterness, nutty, medium sweet at the end.
Hazy amber color. Caramel aroma, light. Strong caramel flavor, good bitterness, nutty, medium sweet at the end.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Jan 2009
at 17:18
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle 355ml.Clear medium to dark brown color with a average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, coffee dusty, nutty - hazelnuts, vanilla notes. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft. [260908]
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jan 2009
at 08:20
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
12 oz bottle from Binny’s. Up to my bung in raspberry beers lately for some reason. This one pours a respectable amber wheat color without the scary pink tinge, at least. No head. Smell is almost all raspberries, but not too strong. Now the label says “Wheat ale with natural flavor added,” which sounds kind of weaselly to me. But I guess if you want maintain a consistent abv, you need to add the fruit after brewing. Razz flavor here is the mainstay, but there is at least a hint of malt, maybe even discernible wheat, underneath. Just about stays out of wine cooler territory, and can be pretty good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Dec 2008
at 23:30
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle at home ... crisp shiney amber ... big sweet light blueberry maybe just a tiny bit artificial ... Fizzy ... artifical sweet blueberry ... light hop.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Dec 2008
at 12:10
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
[330 ml bottle] Dark color and a faint roasted aroma. Flavor is of malt, with hints of vanilla and nuts.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Dec 2008
at 09:12
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
12 fl oz bottle. Pours hazy orange with a small and diminished white head. Light ctrusy and peachy fruity aroma. Sweet malty and fruity initially with a solid bitterness following. Bitter and hops fruity inot and medium sweet finish. Light soapy and perfumed finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Dec 2008
at 03:08