6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
22 oz bottle-trade with mcox90 thanks!-tight offwhite-amber. A-floral/citrus-orange, lt malt-caramel. T-perfumy/metallic biting hopsoverrides some lt malt.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Apr 2013
at 07:57
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
22 oz bottle-trade with mcox90 thanks!-tight lt tan-dk copper. A-roasty/cocoa/peat-med/dk malt, earthy. T-roasty/cocoa/peat-med/dk malt, earthy hops. towards a brown ale.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Apr 2013
at 18:13
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pours a deep golden color with a huge tan head that shows great retention and lace. The aroma is really nice, lots of citrus, pine, and resin with a distant but present bread and caramel malt backbone. The flavor is resinous and pine in spades with a hint of astringency. Light bready caramel comes in to try to provide some balance. Moderate hop bitterness with a subtle chalky note. Medium to thin body with a moderate level of carbonation and a slick resinous mouthfeel. Decent IPA, smells really good, tastes ok, could use a bit more body and less astringency, but quaffable just the same.
Tried
on 01 Feb 2013
at 15:53
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Pours a deep garnet brown color with a smallish khaki head that that quickly dissipates to a cap on top. Smells of caramel and toffee with a hint of earthy citrus hops. The flavor is English inspired with a lightly chalky sulfur and caramel toffee maltiness with hints of earthy spicy hops that barely provide balance. Is that a bitter butterscotch I am getting in the flavor? Medium body with a moderate level of carbonation and a sweet slick mouthfeel. A new NH brewery and I sooo wanted to be blown away. This one is OK, but really nothing special.
Tried
on 30 Jan 2013
at 17:02