Reunion - A Beer for Hope 2007

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Holy Carbonation Batman! This beer was crazy with it’s carbonation. it took me half an hour to pour two glasses from teh bomber. The craziest part was that it was fine sitting there after I openned it, but as soon as I actually started to pour it went crazy IN THE BOTTLE...only foam would come out for like 5 minutes. Anyway, it pours with a deep brown body topped by a huge, foamy, tan head (duh) that actually disappeared pretty quickly when it comes down to it. A lot of lacing was left on the glass, too. It’s malty with a slight roasty note as well as a hint of coffee and a nice sweet cream note. Medium bodied and slightly tingly from the carbonation.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Poured a nice brown with red edges amazing head. ARoma was roated burnt chocolate. Flavor was the same, bitter chocolate malty Good beer. Thanks to eagle for this one.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Bottle from Topps in Tempe. The pour was brown with burgundy edges, huge tan head. The aroma was bubble gum, roast, chocoalte. The flavor was smoke, (bitter) roast, dark malts, some black licorice, chocolate, bubble gum, plastic off notes. The mouthfeel was over carbonated, finish bitter (hops or roast, not sure).

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 8

Beautiful pour with fluffy type head and excellent lacing. Very faint aroma of smoke and burnt matches. Nice smokey malty flavor with some dusty chalk. I really liked this. Thanks to eaglefan538 for sharing.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Quite well carbonated, the beer produces a four-finger thick, brownish tinged, tan colored head without even trying. The beer sits in my glass a dark brown color, but shows a bright, concentrated ruby amber color when held up to the light. The aroma is distinctly fruity and hoppy with notes of candied orange peel, grapefruit, raisins and figs. Underneath this are malt driven aromas of toasted malt, dusty cocoa powder, crushed soda crackers and browned caramelized brown sugar. The nose is a nice mixture of bright hop aromatics and malt character.

Sweet up front, the beer is made more sweet than it is by the citrusy hop notes. Towards the middle the beer becomes considerably drier, actually even a touch tart. It finishes with an astringent, roast grain character and an ample, green, hop bitterness. A bit on the fizzy side, but that is easily taken care of by a few swirls of my glass. The combination of the carbonation, the green hop character and the dark malt can at times be jarring; The flavors when taken individually though are quite tasty and character, so much so that this beer actually works more than it doesn't. The malt character is quite caramelized tasting, plus there is a significant dusty, browned malt / cocoa not here as well. An interesting beer, it is tasty, but it certainly be much more integrated than it is.

Aroma: 4 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

A big thanks to cquiroga for bringing this beer to the Woodshop tasting at Stuffed Sandwich in San Gabriel, CA. This was a gusher. After waiting several minutes for the head to die down, it was a non-descript brown ale

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

This brown ale pours a deep reddish brown color from a 22oz bottle. Large sized, beige colored rocky foamy head. Aroma is malty, roasty, nutty, earthy and sweet. A full bodied brown ale. Malts are caramel, nutty and sweet. Very intense malt flavors. Hops are earthy and floral. There are some citrusy hops at the finish. Big beer, lots of flavors going on here; big sweet malts, tons of hops, nuttiness and some spiciness. Interesting beer. Definitely an imperial brown ale. Touch of alcohol at the finish. Mouthfeel is full. Finish is clean, crisp and dry. Aftertaste is bitter.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

A very nice beer, in taste and in purpose. Has a nice pour, dark brown with a thin lacey head. Aroma is sweet. Mouthfeel is crisp with little to no aftertaste. Flavor is strong and has a great palate.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

Kudos to the guys who created and then brewed this beer for a great cause. Excellent idea and I hope it gets it's just due. On to the beer. Aroma was subdued with minimal amounts of hops, a good dose of sweet malts, caramel and a bit of roast...reminded me of root beer. Appearance was deep brown in color, medium sized head. Flavors carried more of a hop profile than the aroma, with a citrusy hop taste, sweet caramel malts..again with a rootbeer like character. The beer is just okay. The idea behind the beer is phenomenal.