5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
500 ml bottle purchased at Spruce Creek Provisions, Kittery. Aroma has an odd yogurt or off yeast character, wet cereal grain. First taste is like lemon, seltzer water mixed with Cream of Wheat Cereal. Body is quite thin and watery. Not completely offensive but I wish I had seen ClarkVV’s review of this before I bought it. It was still drinkable but just barely. This one needs some work for sure.
Maybe a bad batch? If so this batch should not have been bottled and sold. Something amuck.
Maybe a bad batch? If so this batch should not have been bottled and sold. Something amuck.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 May 2016
at 13:09
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Purchased a 500ml bottle from Spruce Creek Provisions, Kittery. Mildly hazy Amber / golden color with bubbly full head. Aroma is grain, yeast and very mild pine and herbal hints.
Tastes a bit blame but still decent. No flaws. Light biscuit malt backbone with a very low hop profile that shows me a herbal hint. Mild pine essence. Lighter body with a moderate bitterness. Drinks easy enough. It reminds me of a pale ale from the late 1990’s / early 2000’s era. Maybe aggressive or bold in that era but nothing standout now.
Tastes a bit blame but still decent. No flaws. Light biscuit malt backbone with a very low hop profile that shows me a herbal hint. Mild pine essence. Lighter body with a moderate bitterness. Drinks easy enough. It reminds me of a pale ale from the late 1990’s / early 2000’s era. Maybe aggressive or bold in that era but nothing standout now.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 May 2016
at 21:49
4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 3
Draught at King’s Head Pub, 4/2/16.
A moderately hazy, waxy-goldenrod yellow body is topped by a medium-sized white head that quickly fades to a ring.
Wax and crayon-like notes in the nose, with maybe a touch of metal, some dry, bland wheat character and a touch of vanillin. Not much going on here, and something is obviously quite off....
The flavor isn’t full of diacetyl, as expected, rather there’s just a trace of it. But there’s no malt character, no hops, very little yeast character even. Just a plasticy-waxy, slightly metallic, very bland, watery mess. Yikes.
A moderately hazy, waxy-goldenrod yellow body is topped by a medium-sized white head that quickly fades to a ring.
Wax and crayon-like notes in the nose, with maybe a touch of metal, some dry, bland wheat character and a touch of vanillin. Not much going on here, and something is obviously quite off....
The flavor isn’t full of diacetyl, as expected, rather there’s just a trace of it. But there’s no malt character, no hops, very little yeast character even. Just a plasticy-waxy, slightly metallic, very bland, watery mess. Yikes.
Tried
on 28 Apr 2016
at 14:10