6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pour is a murky yellow with a large white head. Aroma is some grapefruit and passion fruit. Flavor is more tropical fruit hops with a grainy malt backbone. Decent but also nothing spectacular.
Tried
on 05 Dec 2019
at 00:01
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Can from Cap Tap. Pours clear, brilliant gold with a creamy white head. Aroma is citrus/tropical. Med body. Flavor is fairly dry, quite hoppy. Think I get a bit of oat. Now it's very dry. Bitter. Citrus. Green melon. Perhaps passion fruit. Good flavor. The way lager was meant to be. :)
Tried
from Can
on 28 Oct 2019
at 23:33
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
[12oz bottle from Total Wines, Huntington Beach, CA as Märzen Amber Lager.] A golden amber pour with a fast fading white head; sweet caramel aroma; earthy caramel taste; with a slightly drier finish with an earthy bitterness. A good Märzen, sweet, yet very drinkable
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Oct 2019
at 01:19
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pour is a slightly hazy orange with a large white head. Aorma is pretty much full on citrus hops. Flavor is citrus but very sweet. Some caramel malt is left on the tongue as this goes down. A bit too sweet for my liking and this also did not need to be 6.6% abv. Maybe at a lower abv this would lessen the sweetness.
Tried
on 06 Oct 2019
at 21:40
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Can. Golden beer with a cream head. Summer fruit and orange aroma. Summer fruit and orange flavor. Medium bodied. Summer fruit and orange linger with backing malt.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Sep 2019
at 21:01
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
22 ounce bottle into tulip glass, bottled on 9/1/2016. Pours slightly hazy/cloudy deep ruby red, light copper/brown color with a 2 finger fairly dense and fluffy khaki head with great retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice dense spotty foamy lacing clings on the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of big caramel, brown sugar, toffee, vanilla, coconut, bourbon, toasted oak, roasted nuts, biscuit, and brown bread/crust; with lighter notes of licorice, molasses, raisin, prune, cherry, fig, date, apricot, red apple, chocolate, cocoa, smoke, herbal, grass, pepper, and yeast/roast/toast/oak earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of dark/bready/light roasted malts, bourbon barrels, and light fruity yeast/earthy hop notes; with big strength. Taste of big caramel, brown sugar, toffee, vanilla, coconut, bourbon, toasted oak, roasted nuts, biscuit, and brown bread/crust; with lighter notes of licorice, molasses, raisin, prune, cherry, fig, date, apricot, red apple, chocolate, cocoa, smoke, herbal, grass, pepper, and yeast/roast/toast/oak earthiness. Mild herbal, grassy, peppery, roast bitterness; and bourbon/oak tannin spiciness on the finish. Slight yeast tang/tartness. Lingering notes of caramel, brown sugar, toffee, vanilla, coconut, bourbon, toasted oak, roasted nuts, biscuit, brown bread/crust, licorice, molasses, dark fruit, apricot, red apple, chocolate, cocoa, smoke, herbal, grass, pepper, and yeast/roast/toast/oak earthiness on the finish for a while. Awesome complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/bready/light roasted malts, bourbon barrels, and light fruity yeast/earthy hop flavors; with an awesome roast/hop bitter/sweet and bourbon/oak spiciness balance; with no cloying/astringent flavors after the finish. Very clean lager flavors, not overly fruity/yeasty. Lightly increasing dryness from lingering bitterness and bourbon/oak spiciness. Medium carbonation and medium-full body; with a very smooth, creamy/silky/velvety/bready, and lightly slick/sticky/chalky/tannic mouthfeel that is great. Mild increasing warmth of 9%, with minimal lingering barrel booze after the finish. Overall this is an awesome barrel aged doppelbock. All around awesome complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/bready/light roasted malts, bourbon barrels, and light fruity yeast/earthy hop flavors; very smooth and dangerously easy to sip on for the big ABV, with the mildly bitter/tannic/drying finish. Awesomely soft feel for the style/ABV. Awesomely rich dark/Munich malt and Four Roses barrel presence/integration; with solid earthy hops. Not overly sweet/heavy from lingering dryness. I got a slight hint of an infection note, but after 3 years it's probably just the melanoidin character. A really enjoyable offering, and spot on base style example with the extended age.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Aug 2019
at 19:42
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draught at Golden Gate Taproom, small creamy bubbly head, cloudy deepish orange color, Aroma of grapefruit, tropical fruits and feral notes, Lots of lemon in flavor, some tropical fruits and a hint passion fruit and grapefruit, piercing lemon tartness. Good and highly drinkable.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Jul 2019
at 07:47
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
16 oz can. Pale golden, small foamy head disappears instantly. Light, bready, grainy aroma. Taste is straw, geassy, malty. Smooth, tasty, no residual anything, clean.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Jul 2019
at 00:31
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can. Purple-red beer with a purplish head. Light tart and grain aroma with berries. Tart and berry flavor. Medium bodied. refreshing. Tartness and berries linger.
Tried
from Can
on 12 Jun 2019
at 00:14
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Can from Cap Tap. Pours clear bright gold with a foamy white head. Aroma is bready with a hint of yeast. Mild hop. Med body or so. Flavor is bready, but there's a bit of Noble hop (spice/grass) which sort of reminds of Pilsner Urquel - tho not so hoppy. Crisp and clean seem appropriate descriptives. Pretty good considering the style.
Tried
from Can
on 09 Jun 2019
at 01:24