Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Pours clear straw into a shaker. Bright white head with good retention recedes to skim surface. Biscuit aromas. Crisp with hay and bready malt upfront turning to mild bitter earth in the lasting finish. Nicely done.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Pours hazy pale straw into a shaker. Bright white head with medium retention recedes leaving soapy spiders. Tropical fruit and scallion aromas. Soft and hot with sweet honey and mango upfront turning to pith and peel in the lasting finish.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle pour into nonic pint glass from One Stop Market. Aroma is malty base with resin, fruit, citrus and mild pine hops. Appearance is beautifully clear amber with nice sparkle, finger width off white foamy head with fair retention and nice leggy lacing. Taste is as aroma but the elements are in conflict with one another and produce a disharmonious mix with no clear flavor direction and just a bitter feel. Palate is medium bodied with frothy texture, average to soft carbonation, dry bitter finish. Overall, a beautiful look and wonderful smell--it really is all about the aroma--because it does not carry through to the taste. Much promise that falls short.
Buckeyeboy (18941) reviewed Porter from Mayflower Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
12oz bottle thanks to Eric. Pours out a dark brown almost black topped with a tan head. nose is nutty roast some vanilla and coffee. taste is more of the roast coffee vanilla a nice bitter sweet combo.
CoastGuardVet (6205) reviewed Alden from Mayflower Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
This was poured into a tulip.
The appearance was a glossysemi-burnt yellow to orange color with a slim finger’s worth of white foamy head that dissipated pretty quickly. Rings of lacing rim the sides of the glass.
The smell takes in citrus bitter to sweet hops bursting into a dried piney hoppiness. Light sweet onion dankiness balances in nicely.
The taste was basically the same with the dried resinous piney flow of hops really crowding the flavor nicely. It just really comes together well. Dry resinous aftertaste. Light smooth citrus to piney finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fairly decent sipping to sessionable quality about it. Carbonation felt pretty good for the style and for me.
Overall, hot damn, Mayflower, you guys did a great job on this beer.
Chalumeaux (4962) reviewed Alden from Mayflower Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Poured from bottle 1/5/16 nice copper hazy color with a nice two finger white head. Aromas of dank citrus grapefruit grass scallion. Taste is citrus pine moderate bitterness nice mouth feel.
tfontana (7277) reviewed Alden from Mayflower Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle pour into nonic pint glass from One Stop Market. Aroma is strong citrus, fruit, pine, resin. Appearance is hazy yellow with no sparkle, ephemeral white head that fades to ring with trace lacing. Taste is citrus, pine, moderate bitterness with some fruity sweetness and a bit of corn chip at the end. Palate is medium bodied with sticky texture and lively carbonation and dry, slightly bitter finish and warmth down the esophagus. Overall, completely as advertised on the label. It could have used a little more malt balance but it’s very good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Pours light gold into a shaker. Bright white head with good retention recedes leaving sheet lacing. Caramel and mild saaz aromas. Sweet cracker and caramel upfront turning to mild bitter Euro hops in the medium length finish.
Quick3Beers (3145) reviewed Standish from Mayflower Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Pours a dark brown from a bottle, khaki colored head. Banana and coffee aroma, mostly coffee flavor, maybe a touch of baker’s chocolate. Very good beer.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
This was poured into a snifter.
The appearance was a nice looking dark brown close to black color with a one finger white to off white foamy head that dissipated within less than about forty seconds. Some nice semi-sticky lacing sticks to the glass and then slides right on into the beer.
The smell had a sweet to moderately bitter to roasty coffee bean - like aroma. Dark fruits come in lightly to balance.
The taste pretty much replicated the aroma nicely. Sweet sliding dark fruity to roasty aftertaste running into the finish adequately.
On the palate, this one sat about a medium on the body with a fairly decent sipping to sessionable quality. Carbonation runs nice and smooth. Shows a slight degree of stickiness but not overbearing.
Overall, this was a pretty good RIS. Right on par and pushing the limit of perhaps just a tad above.