Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
tap at the brewpub - Pours clear yellow and smells like a chili pepper. The flavor has a decent wheat ale under there, but it’s really dominated by the chili peppers. More subtlety probably would have worked better here. It beats the hell out of Cave Creek Chili beer, but that’s not saying much.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
tap at the brewpub - Pours clear dark brown with a thin head. It really smells like honey. The taste is similar. There’s a lot of honey in this one along with the caramel malt flavors. It’s bubbly on the palate and very sweet. It’s not bad though maybe it could be balanced better.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
tap at the brewpub - Pours clear gold with a thin white head. Surprise! It smells of raspberries! hah... anyway, it has a sweet, malty, raspberry flavor. It’s light bodied and refreshing, though not impressive.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
tap at the brewpub - Pours dark amber and has an aroma of malts and fruity esters that also come through in the flavor. In that sense it reminded me of their blonde ale. Add caramel malt, a mild to moderate hops bite, and a medium body. It works well as a session beer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
tap at the brewpub - Pours clear yellow with good lacing. The aroma is pale malt with light fruity esters in the background of both the aroma and flavor. It’s a sweet, light, refreshing beer as the style should be. It’s still fairly average overall, but maybe a little better than it’s rated.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
tap at the brewpub - Pours brown with a thin white head. It has the expected caramel malt aroma with a hint of hops. The flavor is more hopped than usual for the style. The body is light to medium and overall it’s an easily quaffed but fairly average brew.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Sampled at the O-Town throwdown. Black pour with dark tan head. Sweet malt aroma with little bits of caramel, vanilla and root beer. The flavor has root beer, vanilla, caramel, chocolate and burnt malts. In the back ground is a hint of alcohol warmth and Barleywine like dark fruitiness.
2010 rating
Courtesy of kiefdog. Pours mahogany with ruby edges and thin tan head. The aroma is rich nearly burnt malts, sweet molasses, a touch of rauch and caramel. The taste is similar with molasses, some dark roasted malts, sugary sweet malts and a thin layer of musty dark fruitiness. I really enjoyed this.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 3 | Overall - 17
Enjoyable malty porter whose hops come through in the flavor. Black pour with big, brown head. Big nose of roasted malts, coffee, molasses, caramel with a hint of licorice.The flavor started moderately sweet and ended with a nice hop presence — a bitterness that lasted into the long finish. Medium body with a watery texture and lively carbonation. The palate turns creamy at the end. Mildly acidic.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle. Hazy yellow/golden colour with a small white head. Hoppy pine needle aroma. Sweet malty hoppy grapefruit flavor. Abit thin mouthfeel. Hoppy bitter finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Deep black IS with a thin moka head. Sweet fruity aroma with notes of citrus underlying the sweet chocolate. Sweet chocolate and prunes with nice alcohol warmth. Rich warm bodied IS with hops bitterness staying long in mouth. Very good. May 2005.