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RATINGS: 9   MEAN: 2.87/5.0   WEIGHTED AVG: 2.88   IBU: 45   EST. CALORIES: 102   ABV: 3.4%
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Love IPAs but don’t like the wallop that usually comes along with them? Banner American Ale is our flagship beer, fostering lively nights and productive days. This sienna-colored, well-balanced beer has great body and is loaded with American hop flavor and aroma.


3.5
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 13/20
ClarkVV (4445) - Allston, Massachusetts, USA - AUG 29, 2015
Draught at Deep Ellum upon debut.
Clear, deep golden body with good carbonation creating a medium-sized white head with moderate retention.
Grainy, clean, lightly cereal-like character with peppery to herbal hop notes and a lighthearted fruitiness. Mineral and soft yeast notes with no alcohol and no flaws.
More grain and very minimally honey-like malts add just a brushstroke of sweetness allowing light bitterness, peppery and herbal hop flavors to grow on the palate and keeping the finish dry, crisp and quenching. Quite clean and though I could see it being a bit less grainy, this does help keep it quenching and refreshing. The hops notes are enjoyable and the carbonation ample but not fizzy or overdone. From the looks of the ratings, the draught version is much superior to the bottle (unsurprisingly).

3.4
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 14/20
rjplumer (723) - Foxboro, Massachusetts, USA - JUN 4, 2014
Burnt copper color. Heavy carbonation caused my glass to keep overflow too much from the head. Mild citrus aroma. Some sourness but has a clean finish. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

3.1
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 10/20
Lukaduke (2737) - Gray, Maine, USA - APR 6, 2014
Pours a deep golden almost copper color with lots of malty grain on the nose, toast, honey trace of citrus. Palate follows with lots of toasted grain, hints of citrus and a metallic bitterness the lingers in the finish. Meh.

3
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 13/20
Bill Becker (589) - Casper, Wyoming, USA - JAN 16, 2014
It pours a hazy light gold with a huge head of foam. Shrinking slowly, it leaves some lacing behind. It has aromas of hops and big grain notes. he hops come across to me as floral. The grain I got in the smell is much tamer taste wise. There’s a nondeScript type of bitterness going on; I think I detect some lemon zest but mainly, it’s just bitter. What malt I get, comes briefly in the after taste. Medium bodied, which is nice, but the carbonation level is way too high, imho. I nice brew for only being 3.4%abv, if only the carbo was lower....

2.5
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 9/20
SrSilliGose (3326) - pouring bus, New Brunswick, CANADA - DEC 15, 2013
tried side by side with the banner rye brew. far preferred the banner rye ale. dirty, somewhat earthy toaste toffee. faint herbal, some what dirty earthy hops. hint of tangerine. would love a chill go to 3.4 percent hoppy canned brew, but hop character wasn’t too good on this one.

2.5
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 10/20
nimbleprop (6173) - SouthWest, Washington, Washington DC, USA - NOV 27, 2013
Big .5l glass at Lord Hobo in Boston. Pours a clear dark yellow with some thin, eggshell head. Nose has some faux citrus, lime and lemon mostly, with hints of mineral water. Flavor is the same, some faint malt, mild metal, lime seltzer. Watery finish. Really good idea, just bad execution.

2.5
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 10/20
BroSpud (1894) - , Massachusetts, USA - NOV 11, 2013
Sampled at Julios New England Craft Beer Fest. Great idea to make a low abv session beer but not worth doing if this is what it has to taste like. Maybe go slightly higher on the abv scale and give it some flavor?

2.5
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 3/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 10/20
Scrapersnbeer (1531) - Boston, Massachusetts, USA - JUN 20, 2013
Soapy floral aroma, a bit of gum and toothpaste. Lively orange color, huge, unstable head abounds. Very hoppy bitter flavor which does not seem to to have any balancing elements. Body is rough and gravelly like the German version of low alcohol lagers. Brewer’s product seems like a knock off of the light ’session weight Notch beers made by Ipswich. 45 IBU’s doesn’t seem like much, but the beer is such a light weight in all other areas.

2.8
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 1/5   OVERALL 11/20
auerbrau (3194) - Ithaca, New York, USA - MAY 26, 2013
On tap at Bukowski Tavern - Cambridge, MA. Leafy, green mint and hop aroma. Flavors are brisk and bittern. The seltzer lightness of this is apparent, but not off-putting. It tastes like the "Cincinnati-style" beers I add seltzer to. The bitterness is way too strong. As well as the flavors are distributed, the bitterness is way out of balance and coarse. Also, there are ways to make session beers that still have body and don’t have a seltzer water finish. Clean, otherwise.


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