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  • Charter Oak Juice Boost NEIPA
    rated 4.2 4 days ago

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

    Huge nose of citrus and pine and mango. Looks just right for a NEIPA... Totally hazed dark amber body, Great lace, and a whitehead with moderate retention. This big beer brings all of your mouth into play especially the back outside tongue. It's pretty clean is moderate carbonation. If you're looking for something that's hoppy as hell and will call juicy has really at least as much old-fashioned California IPA flavor as it does normal New England juice bombs then this is the one for you.

  • Alchemist Focal Banger
    rated 4.1 2 months ago

    Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 9

    Huge long-lasting nose fresh, tropical, pine. Fully hazed medium amber body with a very smallish white head that lasts well and leaves decent lace. Mouth is full slick slightly drying and long-lasting. Flavor is so green with fresh hops... Citrus pith.. bitter... Sour lemon... Pine resin.

  • Captain Jack
    rated 4.0 3 months ago

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

    Billy Brady on the nose some nice funky pasture. Pours a clear light gold with minimal head and minimal lace although it's in the s***** airport bar plastic glass so who knows. Really soft smooth mouth with a great tingle really spot on. It's a fairly hoppy German pilsner a lot of bread and cracker some peppery spice it's really an excellent pilsner. Is it worth 12 bucks at an airport bar I don't know but it's pretty damn good.

  • Cellar Eyes Riwaka
    rated 3.5 4 months ago

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

    Okay this is weird but I get a smoky nose almost like a sweet barbecue maybe an Asian barbecue. Also some pepper and some very sweet peach in the nose. Unique. Hazed deep gold slightly amber body whitehead that lingers slightly but doesn't really last too long minimal lace. Mouth has a nice tingle it's medium to light bodied plays really well in the back of the mouth very tangy. Okay weird I also get barbecue in the flavor they're calling this a pale ale it's much more like a sour which happens a lot with Kent falls. There's some apple cider vinegar there's some candy sugar there's a medium length finish that ends up almost clean surprisingly for as sweet and tart and sour and yes it's almost like drinking a sweet tart. Suspect the barbecue is coming from the oak barrel aging. I mean they're calling this a Paleo so I don't know where to downgrade the score because this is not a pale ale. I would wonder if it had gone bad except I bought it at the brewery so it's two and a half years old if doesn't taste like it's gone bad it's just really not a pale ale. I find a drinkable it's tasty it's just not a payal what do I do I guess I'll knock it down two points on flavor for being totally off style.

  • Unrefined Brown Shugga
    rated 4.0 4 months ago

    Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

    Mild nose... Raisin, cotton candy, fresh cut grass. Deep copper body thin off white head, reasonable lace for the ABV. Moderate to low carbonation, slick on the mouth, medium body. Fairly subtle flavor for its style. Black cherry, brown sugar but sweet well balanced with coffee tones a very long finish that is a bit of stringent and nicely bittered. Tasty is always from Lagunitas.

  • Weihenstephaner Vitus
    rated 3.4 4 months ago

    Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

    Nose: pea, bubble gum and a little hint of white pepper. Pours a hazed medium gold body, minimal Head has poor retention. Nice mouth tingly clean. Flavor is all banana at first... Fouls was slight clove flavors which are understated which I appreciate. The bubble gum is definitely there. Just a hint of pepper in the end and I'm going white pepper here. Like a mild hefe which I suppose is appropriate.

  • Weihenstephaner Korbinian
    rated 4.5 6 months ago

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

    Nose: raisins, creme brulee, clove and banana faintly present. Appearance: opaque deep brown body topped with a long-lasting beige head with nice lace. Mouth: Fizzy for sure, clean with medium body plays strongly on the back of the tongue. Flavor: Damn this is tasty! Light coffee and sweet cacao in the front. Esters and phenols are present but very minimal..... I love this balance. Creme brulee really coming out as it warms slightly. Alcohol very well masked but slightly warming in the middle of the taste. Very very long finish which starts slightly sweet but really ends clean. Could be my new favorite brew.

  • Weihenstephaner Kristallweissbier
    rated 3.7 6 months ago

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

    Nose: Clove, bubble gum, grass, violets. Appearance: Indeed a crystal clear body, moderate short-lived head leaving more suds than lace. Mouth: medium body, slick, decent tingle, not coating. Flavor: Surprisingly sweet, drinking a bit on the warm side and getting maple syrup, clove aspect is there and is drying on the mouth, short finish is dry and baking spice. Bubblegum is there. Slightly more hops and less esters than a straight hefe as it should be.

  • Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

    Nose: Bubblegum, clove, banana. Appearance: dark brown body carmel color and head with short retention leaves the skim coat not much lace. Mouth: extremely fizzy of the tongue. Rather thin with a long finish. Flavor: starts pretty sweet with a little bit of bubble gum, candied fruits, toasted malts creep in, some raisin, there's some pepper in the finish the alcohol is warming and the finish is extremely long.

  • Hacker-Pschorr Münchener Gold
    rated 2.6 7 months ago

    Aroma: 4 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 6

    Sorry to ask us to put up a description so here it is. At the end of the 19th century, Munich took great pleasure in two new beaming additions to the city: the golden Angel of Peace and the first lager beer speciality, Münchner Gold. Still brewed by us to this day according to the age-old recipe, this slightly stronger beer is a mature masterpiece and delights with its enticing malty aroma and its slightly stronger original wort. Color pale, golden-yellow Flavours balanced Bitterness balanced Alcohol 5,5 % vol Calorific values 46 kcal / 100 ml Choice hops Hallertauer Tradition, Hallertauer Herkules Premium malt Marthe, Grace and Catamaran barley varieties Perfect with: Our Münchner Gold is particularly tasty as an accompaniment to traditional Bavarian snacks with bread, salad, sliced meats and typical cheese specialities such as Obatzda (Camembert spread) and blue-veined cheese. We also recommend it with fish, seafood and juicy roast chicken. Decent mouth slightly watery very short finish. I know it can't be but this tastes like corn to me. Christian Moulton and some very lightly bittering hops, it's like a better Budweiser. NOW A REVIEW Hell nose of malt and grass. We are medium gold body not much lasting to the head and no lace. Maybe it's just not my cup of pee.