Bottle: Poured a light brown color lager with a nice big white bubbly head with minimal retention. Aroma of crisp hops with some sweet malt. Taste is dominated at first with sweet caramel malt and finish with a medium bitterness. Very nice and refreshing from a style that I don’t seem to drink much of.

A hazy amber beer with an orange head. The aroma is sweet and very hoppy - with the hops giving it slight notes of citrus. The flavor is sweet with quite a lot of hops, giving it a citrus note, but there’s also notes of caramel from the malt. The end is hoppy dry.

Some butter in the aroma as well as bitter herbal hops. Very light citrus and bitter hop flavors. Thick.

Thanks to Secret Santa for this one! Poured into a Pilsner glass, this produced a tall head of white that stayed for a considerable time, fed from below by multiple microscopic bubble streams through a clear golden beer. Malty aroma that carries some bread and honey and flowery hops. Smooth and sweet in the beginning to end a bit dry with some nice hop bitterness to it. Very nice.

2004 bottle provided by and shared with bucknaked, 4/28/2005. Pour is fabulous, brown-amber-golden colored body is unfiltered, with a yellowish/cream colored head, thick and very well-retained, plenty of lacing. Aroma is immediately strong and intense of lilacs, hugely bitter hops and lightly phenolic perfume. First sip and I’m exclaiming, "Damn, this is the best beer I’ve had in a while!" The perfumey alcohol and bitterness in the nose creates a floral/spicy hops concoction for a flavor, plenty of thick, almost syrupy malt. As it finishes, notes of pine sap begin to surface. . .uh oh, this is not going where I had hoped. The next sip gets even more sticky and sappy and finally after 4 or so sips, I can’t even finish my glass. The pine sap and HUGE resin flavor/consistency is just ridiculously unbalanced. This could be worse than Devil Dancer. I’m never a big fan of huge amounts of munich malt in barleywines or Double IPAs and this is no exception. A slight sourness to the malt, very sticky and mostly dry, with that sugary pils malt sweetness, a hint of candied oranges in there. Body is certainly full, can’t fault that, but the beer is so unbalanced and cloying it’s not even funny. Interesting experience, though.

Clear amber/copper coloured body with a crimson hue and a thinnish light tan coloured head that lasts long. Aroma of mushrooms, caramel, toffee, raisins and must-wierd, but nice. Light to Medium-bodied; Spicey hops hit up front with a good malty backbone and a suble spice and a good toffee flavour that lasts for a long time. Aftertaste shows the bittering hops and some of the lighter spices. Overall, a nice beer to try, definitely better than some other marzens and beers from Legend. I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased today, 31-December-2004 at Norm’s in Vienna, Virginia.

Crystal clear amber coloured body with a nice crimson tint and a smallish off-white head. Aroma of fresh hops, pine, malt, oranges, alcohol and toffee. Medium-bodied; Strong astringent hops up front with a piney and very bitter finish. Good malt backbone to keep this one afloat and a good fruity/alcoholic finish. A nice APA, one to rival the best available APAs in the country (as far as I’m concerned) produceed up here at Dominion. Overall, a good beer- this should be on people’s shopping lists if it isn’t already. I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased the same day at Whole Foods in Vienna, Virginia, 19-December-2004.