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

The nose is mild but very appealing. Cinamon, pepper, violets and rosemary. A slightly fogged light coppr body is topped with a moderate head that leaves a long-lasting skim coat and laces nicely. Mouth is a touch light with a real nice back of the tongue tickle. I like the flavor a lot! Hopheads are probably going to find it slightly lacking for an American Pale but it is quite hoppy. Starts ever so slightly sweet, goes very nicely bitter and ends exceptionally clean and dry. The malt backbone is really well done with just a hint of a toasted/caramel flavor. I find the balance exceptional. This is a great session beer!

Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 3 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 3 | Overall: 2

This is one odd duck! The nose is really strong, a bit of pine, a lot of suspect fruit/floral, a lot of lemmon and corriander. My first thought was really that this smells like a toilet freshener! The head is big but perhaps not as long-lasting as the style would wish. Sits on a very cloudy pale apricot colored body. The lacing is really more like foaming. I find the color and the nose both off-putting. Mouth feel is both thin and foamy. The flavor is corriander and for me apple with a touch of lemon. Almost tastes like an off hard cider that had been watered down. I also get a touch of apricot in the flavor, like a weak Magic Hat #9 with odd spicing added to it. Maybe some other odd berry as well...bluebery? Its more spicey than sweet and finishes fairly clean with just a hint of hops in the finish. I really don't care for it. When I first smelled it I thought God, what is in this thing, it smells like artificail fruit flavoring. It tastes the same to me. I am willing to bet that this beer has artificial fruit flavoring in it. I rarely say this but I don't think I can finish it, half way through I already feel a hangover coming on. BAD BEER!

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

Look, US mass brewed swill could take a real lesson from this Indian relative. OK, it was a hot day and I was eating a very hot Indian chicken dish but gosh darn this is a pretty decent Pale Lager. Unlike the American counterparts there is at least a hint of hops here, mostly in the nose. There is a bit of citrus in the nose and much less grass then US counterparts. Seems to ahve a more solid malt body which leads to some sweetness but still a very nice clean crisp finish. NO SKUNK! also.while there may be adjuncts, I don't really taste them. Finally, unlike Bud etc, this beer still tastes all right as the chill comes off it. I can't call this macro swill and I believe it shows what Macro swills COULD be if they were just willing to make a penny less profit per bottle. hats off to Kingfisher for being respectable!

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

Wow, this beer is underrated here! It starts with a very nice American IPA nose, pine forest, carmel, and orange citrus. Pours a beautiful off-white frothy head that has good retention and sits over a very clear pale copper-colored body. Far and away the best lacing I have ever seen. A solid medium bodied mouthfeel that is ever so slightly foamy. Flavor is fantastic. Its probably low-rated here because the hops are nicely balanced, its very hoppy but NOT the level true hop heads prefer. Flavor starts sweet with a nice malt back-bone and some bit of toffee with the hops kicking the back of the tongue in a delightfully bitter manner. It then shifts to a nice sweet-tart battle and seems as if the sweet if going to win but it leaves you with a very dry clean finish. Strong alcohol content for an IPA is very well masked and contribues to the dry finish. This is art in a glass!

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

Well to review this it should really be a hot day and a lot of bbq going on, or maybe floating on a cat in the Carribean, but I finally broke down and bought a six anyway; its gonna have to stand on its own. Mild nose with a lot of grain and not much else, maybe a touch grassy. Very white , short-lasting head and moderate lace sits over an extremley pale gold body, a touch more yellow then most macros and cystal clear. Mouthfeel is watery but OK. I would have thought, from memory, that this would taste sweeter then it does. Its not complex at all, typical macroswill flavor but lacking perhaps the extremes of bad tasting aditives. Consequently not much taste at all. Theres a bit of corn, a bit of malt, very little hop, and it ends with less skunk than most macros.

Aroma: 10 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

Bread and honey in the nose with just a hint of vanilla and lemmon. Amazing head! Pure white frothy, huge .....whipped eggwhites is comprised of VERY large bubbles, beautiful to gaze at with the best lace I have seen. This sits on a very transparent pale gold body. Mouthfeel is medium-bodied with a nice tingle. (It might be my imagination but I have had maybe a quarter of the bottle while writing this and I think I am already a bit buzzed.)Flavor is very clean, alcohol very well masked. Its a perfectly balanced flavor that is constantly complex throughout, not a lot of stages to the taste except perhaps a distinct aftertaste that goes deliciously sour and a nice bit of bitter. The alcohol shows up in the aftertaste more as a feeling then a taste. The taste......earthy with a bit of nut flavor, sour ripe fruit somewhere between grape and fig, a complcated yeast component and a nice malt flavor that gives a solid backbone that is ever so slightly sweet and plays beautifully witht the sour. This is just art in a glass; an intense complexity of brewing perfection hidden in what appears to be at first a very simple flavor. This is incredible beer-making! I am starting to think my ratings at the high end are low, this is probably a 4.7 beer as are several others that I have ranked in the low 4's (which are tops of my list.) One other comment, for a strong ale this is incredibly lager like in its character!

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 6

Nice light nose of cloves lemmongrass yeast and cashews. Beautiful meringue head with moderate retention sits over a very pale and clear golden body. Leaves minimal lace. Mouthfeel is very very light, slippery water but with a very nicely done fiz. Its been awhile since I've had a lager but this flavor seems very pale. There is a hint of yeast in the middle and a tiny bit of hops at the end with a slight mineral taste throughout. Goes a bit sour at the end. I also get a hint of corn or some other odd grain flavor. Not terribly off-putting but not worth the money IMHO. I need to go back and read my review of SS organic lager, which I recall liking. I think this is its very poor cousin.

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

Lots of yeast in the nose with a touch of floral hops. Moderate head with short retention and light lace over a pale copper body. Mouth is a touch watery. Flavor is very timid, not complex but well balanced caramel notes with a good malt body and slight hops bite at the end. this is a hard beer to review, poor in many ways but it would be a great beer to give to a friend that only likes macros. And if you ever feel like a light beer, this would be a good choice as well. Its numbers are going to come out low but for wither of the previous situations this beer would be first rate.

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

I have a bit of allergies going on so may have to revisit this but I get almost no nose, what there is malt. Pours a clear, medium, copper colored body with minimal head and moderate retention, some lace and malt evidence floating on the top of the brew. Mouthfeel is medium and fizzy in a good way. Coasts the mouth well.First taste is sweet malt and alcohol which dissapears slowly into pepper, and a touch of pine. Gets nicely bitter in the end, hops are well done. No masking of alcohol here, its an integral part of the flavor and its really quite a nicely balanced flavor. Nice warming in the aftertaste which is dry and clean. I wonder again if its my nose and not the beers nose. I will revisit as this would get very high marks if the nose was better (and I would love a nicer head and lace.)ReRate 8/20/08 Nice nose, malt, vanilla, ripe dark fruit of cherry or fig with some floral hops as well, maybe even a great nose, and the lacing is real nice as well.

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

I have had a couple of the big bottles and the flavor seemed to vary somewhat. Pop the cork and it pours a hazey medium copper with a big head and nice retention with good lace. Complex nose with alcohol, spice and yeast all present. Mouth if full and smooth. The first time I tried this the taste was quite yeasty and reminded me of a good organic lager. Second time around ( and maybe the first time was me, not the bottle, it wasn't the first beer I had that evening) it presented a very complex profile; still plenty of yeast with lots of clove-like spiceyness and a lot of fruit... figs and earthyness. Finish is rich and not quite dry. In a blind test I might have thought this was a heffe. A very well done American version of a Belgain Strong. By the way, local 1 is the stage hands union in NYC, coincidence?