7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Nice orange with a white head. Full of grapefruit in aroma and flavor. Citrus , resiny hops, light floral, apricot, and the lightest of malts. Powerful bitterness on the end. Really liked this one.
Tried
on 08 Apr 2010
at 18:07
8.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
22 ounce bottle from Beer Run in Charlottesville, VA. Pours a clear orange-amber color with a large offwhite head. Good head retention and excellent lacing. Aroma of sticky resiny hops with some citrus and a well balanced caramel malt backbone. The taste is bitter resiny hops, citrus, apricot and melon, with caramel in the background. Medium bodied with quite a bit of hop bitterness that lingers. Good beer. This brewery has barely been in Virginia a week and they’re already impressing me a great deal.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Apr 2010
at 14:53
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
22 ounce bottle from Wine Warehouse in Charlottesville, VA. Pours a dark brown color with a thin head. Decent head retention and lacing. Aroma of dark, chewy malts, some slight roastiness and chocolate. A faint bit of smoke as well. The taste is roasted malts, chocolate, some nutty notes, minty hops. Smooth, medium bodied. Very nice porter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Apr 2010
at 17:38
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
22 ounce bottle from Beer Run in Charlottesville, VA. Pours a clear golden color with a medium frothy white head. Good head retention and lacing. The aroma is fairly faint with notes of sweet malts and muted hops. The taste is bitter hops, pale malts, some nutty notes, a bit of bread and crackers. Fairly dry. Medium bodied. Not bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Apr 2010
at 15:10
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Tap at Murphy’s in Brookline. Hazy yellow, edge head. Aroma of orange and fresh bread. Taste is orange juice. Tart, light bodied. Weak.
Tried
from Draft
on 30 Mar 2010
at 18:19
7.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
22 fl oz bottle. Pours hazy to murky pink with a small pinkish head. Aroma is citric and cranberry fruity. Cranberry fruity flavoured with a mild citric. Citric and slight fruity finish. Smooth.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Feb 2010
at 06:46
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Location: 22 oz bottle from Chevy Chase, 2/26/10
Aroma: Mostly citrus hops (orange, grapefruit), some caramel notes
Appearance: Slightly unclear orange color, large, frothy white head, leaves a good amount of lace
Flavor: Taste is moderately sweet, citrus hops, caramel malts, with a quite dry finish
Palate: Light-medium body, a little bit on the creamy side, mildly chewy, average (plus) carbonation
Overall Impression: This is a pretty solid IPA. Rather on the dry side, but I'm good with that. It has a decent feel to it, and it works pretty well. Solid stuff. Slight metallic feel, but doesn't take much away from it. Anyway, if you enjoy a citrus hop IPA with a strongly dry flavor, then this one is a pretty good idea.
Aroma: Mostly citrus hops (orange, grapefruit), some caramel notes
Appearance: Slightly unclear orange color, large, frothy white head, leaves a good amount of lace
Flavor: Taste is moderately sweet, citrus hops, caramel malts, with a quite dry finish
Palate: Light-medium body, a little bit on the creamy side, mildly chewy, average (plus) carbonation
Overall Impression: This is a pretty solid IPA. Rather on the dry side, but I'm good with that. It has a decent feel to it, and it works pretty well. Solid stuff. Slight metallic feel, but doesn't take much away from it. Anyway, if you enjoy a citrus hop IPA with a strongly dry flavor, then this one is a pretty good idea.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Feb 2010
at 16:00
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Pours deep copper with gold edges and thin off white head. The aroma is spices, apple, mild pumpkin spice and faint pumpkin flavored Kool – Aid. The taste is pumpkin spiciness followed by mild spiced apple and a smooth faint note of sweet maltiness as well as a touch of roasted malts.
Tried
on 30 Jan 2010
at 16:05
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Got this on tap at Sunset Grille. Beer menu lied to me with promise that it was going to have 6.8 percent alcohol. Bastards. Anyway, it looks perfectly nice, with a proper copper/amber body and a nice off-white head, especially when poured into one of those tulip glasses that they like serving beers in. You get a bunch of bready malts in the nose along with some mild hopping. Taste is pretty well-balanced, making for a proper session ale. Moderate enough grassy hops with bready malts in taste obviously as well. Also got some citrus in there as well, but that is not one of the main flavors it seems.
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Jan 2010
at 12:00
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle at the Relentless Thirst Tasting on 08/29/2009. Clear caramel body with a small off-white head. Big caramel and hop aroma. Sweet sugar, caramel, rum soaked fruit and molasses flavor with a smooth bitter finish. Medium full body with moderately low carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Dec 2009
at 09:38