3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20 superspak (3627) - Michigan, USA - SEP 2, 2015
12 ounce bottle into pint glass, bottled on 2/4/2015. Pours lightly hazy orange/copper color with a 2 finger dense and rocky light khaki head with great retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lasts. Nice dense soapy lacing clings down the glass, with a good amount of streaming carbonation retaining the head. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of grapefruit, lemon zest, orange peel, light pine, caramel, brown sugar, toasted bread, light nuttiness, floral, grass, and floral/toasted earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of citrus/floral hops and dark/bready malt notes; with solid strength. Taste of grapefruit, lemon zest, orange peel, pine, caramel, brown sugar, toasted bread, light nuttiness, floral, grass, and floral/toasted earthiness. Moderate amount of pine/grassy bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of grapefruit, lemon/orange peel, pine, caramel, brown sugar, toasted bread, and floral/toasted earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice balance, complexity, and robustness of citrus/piney hops and dark/bready malt flavors; with a good malt/bitterness balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, creamy, and lightly sticky mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is very well hidden with minimal warming present after the finish. Overall this is a very nice hoppy amber ale. All around good balance, complexity, and robustness of citrus/piney hops and dark/bready malt flavors; and very smooth and easy to drink. A very enjoyable offering.
2.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20 SiviS (35) - - AUG 8, 2015
This beer has a good berry smell ,but not any taste when you drink it. Not really a good beer.
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3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20 kipper8588 (23) - - AUG 8, 2015
This beer is definitely easy on the palate. Overall it is a decent beer however the flavor is very bland. Would drink again
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2.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20 czar (6012) - Québec, Quebec, CANADA - AUG 14, 2014
pours hazy bright golden reddish with a very nice light beige head, good retention and lacing. spicy nutty and fruity malts, some caramel, berry fruitiness, pepper and citrus, some pine, offensive ashy and piney notes, and earthy coffee grinds, carbonic acid and garbagy traces. moderately carbonation, llight body, harsh grassy-citrusy-piney-ashy finish. blah.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20 hotstuff (4424) - Indiana, USA - APR 26, 2014
Rated on 01-12-2012 (Bottle) This beer has a very small tan head that mostly diminishes, hazy golden body with slow rising carbonation and virtually no lacing. The aroma is light pine hops and caramel malt. The flavor is moderately bitter pine hops and caramel malt. The mouthfeel is lively and this beer is medium bodied. The hops are upfront in the aroma and in the flavor but the hops seem to be out of character for this beer style.
3.2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20 koleminer20 (1262) - Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA - NOV 8, 2013
On tap at Dan's. This beer doesn't look as red as I'd expect from a red ale. The head is thin, but leaves a clingy lace. The pour is a little more brown than I'd expect. The aroma is very malty and sweet. Almost overly done. The flavor is bitterly malty. The sweetness is overbearing. And then it fades out nicely, once you get past the initial blast.
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2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20 thedm (5207) - Fort Wayne, USA - DEC 27, 2012
This bottled brew from a bottle shop poured a small sized head of fine to medium sized off-white colored bubbles that were mostly lasting and left behind a softly carbonated transparent light red brown colored body and a poor lacing. . The crisp mouth feel was tingly at the start and at the finish. The flavor contained notes of crystal malt Irish red malt and hops. A decent one that I would consider buying again.
3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20 patrick767 (3741) - fort wayne, Indiana, USA - AUG 6, 2012
draft at the tap room - Pours caramel colored with an off white head. Theres a toasted caramel malt aroma with a touch of some indistinct fruit. The flavor is sweet up front and moves quickly to moderately strong bitterness that lingers on the palate. Like the previously sampled Train Wreck ale, I find something off putting about the hops finish in this one and I love hops. Okay beer.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20 Pawola22 (3262) - Plainfield, Illinois, USA - NOV 20, 2011
12oz bottle from Sicilianos Market in Grand Rapids, MI. Pours a cloudy, red-orange colored body with a finger-width, frothy, off-white head that dissipates slowly and leaves a nice lacing. Aroma is caramel and some toffee with a good amount of grapefruit hops. Some florals and pines with apple and a touch of toast. Flavor is similar. Toasty caramels and toffees with a nice, piney, herbal pepper grapefruit. Some florals at the end as the caramel gets a bit deeper and toastier before this finishes dry with a moderate, herbal and piney bitterness. Lengthy aftertaste following a medium body and a moderate carbonation. Overall, a pretty solid beer. Well hopped with a solid toasty caramel and toffee. This was pretty enjoyable.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20 shrubber85 (9341) - Greenville, Indiana, USA - JUL 26, 2011
Bottle. Toffee malt and pine/grapefruit peel hops aroma. Cloudy amber color with moderate head. Light malt and strong orange/grapefruit peel/pine hops flavor. Good hoppy beer.
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