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  • Back Pasture
    rated 4.4 3 years ago

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

    Lovely pils nose. Fresh! (caned 8 days ago after 6 weeks conditioning in a foeder and around 22 weeks lagering) pasture and sour fruit , and a wiff of bubble gum. P Louise Whitehead leaving a bit of lace sits atop I'm almost clear medium Amber body Anthony. Wonderful creamy mouth chewy and slick and perfect carbonation. The flavor profile is blowing me away. Probably the best lager I've ever had. Complex yet extremely well-balanced and just a hint of sour which I think comes from the conditioning an unusually large wooden barrels. There's a little sweet towards the end with a nice sour in the middle the malts are present the Hops are subtle and probably Noble.

  • The Quill
    rated 4.2 3 years ago

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

    Nose of roasted malts, overripe dark fruit, and lactose. This is a very nice looking beer at least on draft. Keep clear copper body with a lovely beige fluffy head that leaves fantastic lace. The mouth is creamy and full-bodied very nice carbonation level. This one hits sweet and ends with dark bitter chocolate and coffee ground flavors. I'm definitely picking up some lactose in the middle of this is also just a hint of sour and some astringent bittering at the end. This is a really good beer.

  • Sierra Nevada Big Little Thing
    rated 3.7 3 years ago

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

    Big sweet lemon mango nose with a hint of biscuit. Poison that quite clear medium Amber body with a decent white head that leaves a skim coat and a touch of lace. Medium to full-bodied slippery on the mouth nice carbonation level. Flavor starts with lemon peel nice bitter bitter the alcohol is not masked and is a big part of the flavor maybe a little too big. Do you know when a sour mango near the Finish and just a hint of pine notes.

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

    Open this can and smell it across the room. Pineapple, apricot, Clover and honey in the nose. Very hazed light apricot colored body minimal white head with minimal lace. Very nice mouth a bit creamy a touch frothy slippery and satisfying. Like most of Kent Falls ipas this has just that a little hint of aspirin on the back end which I'm not particularly fond of. The rest of the flavor profile is quite nice, ripe pear, apricot or kumquat, just a little sour it's really quite nice if that ending slavery was just a little more mellow a little less astringent / aspirin / allmond.

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

    Rhinos of raspberry jam with a little biscuit in the background. Clear light Scarlet body with minimal white head that leaves a tiny bit of lace. Medium bodied and exceptionally fizzy. Fruit beers are not my cup of tea but reading it for what it is. The raspberry hit is strong well tempered by a little bitter lemon rind and a bit of Flowery hibiscus floating in the background when fears this would be extremely cloying however it's not. The Finish is close to clean the beer is sweet but not as sweet as one fears it might be. It burps a lot.

  • Pilsner Urquell
    rated 3.6 3 years ago

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

    Nose of malt and grass, noble hops. Clear medium gold body with almost nonexistent white head. Wee bit of sudsy lace. Mouth is thin with a low level of carbonation. Flavor is mild but well balanced, clean and simple, light bread, grassy hops, bit of pepper on a very clean ending. Highly sessionable.

  • Counter Weight Brewing Headway IPA
    rated 3.8 3 years ago

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

    NEIPA nose; pineapple but with a floral component and a touch of spice. Fogged golden body, nice white head with good lace. Mouth is bracing medium bodied, slippery and tingly. Flavor is not complex, standard NEIPA, no distinct beginning or middle, malt not contributing much, bit sweet near the end and a touch astringent in the aftertaste.

  • Charter Oak 1687 Brown Ale
    rated 4.0 3 years ago

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

    Bread dough, vanilla, baking spices, in the nose. Deep Ruby Brown body with an off-white head leave the skim coat and a touch of lace. Mouth is both creamy and tingly nice carbonation level fully coating. There's a lot going on in the flavor with fairly distinct phases. Start creamy with just a hint of dark fruit in the middle and a touch of charred malt and chocolate towards the end. Aftertaste is slightly sweet slightly oily and slightly bitter, very drinkable.

  • All Alone With Everywhere To Go
    rated 3.5 3 years ago

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

    Huge tropical nose, pineapple, green apple, sweetened cookie dough. Totally fogged light yellow body tap to the moderate head leave suds but no lace. 12 things in mouth not quite watery fizzy carbonation. This is an all Galaxy version with Connecticut grains typical for this Brewery. Not a lot of taste at the start but a fairly nasty aspirin taste at the end. Lots of herbaceous bitter greens. Some honey on the front end.

  • Broken Symmetry Stratus
    rated 4.3 3 years ago

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

    So let's just start by saying this is a really wonderful beer. The nose is a tropical New England IPA nose it's tropical and it's got some Clementine and just some hints of grass very little malt in the nose. Pours a very light-colored copper body but a really nice white head that leaves a good skim coat and very good lace. The body is almost clear unusual for a New England IPA, into my eyes quite pleasing. The mouth is medium-bodied with spot-on carbonation and nice slipperiness. Display her profile is really a classic IPA profile it's got a lot of pine resin and just a hint of that newfangled tropical coming through. There's a whole lot of green in this taste compared to most New ENGLAND IPA's. Tobacco leather caramel corn bitter salad greens a little bit salty. This beer is blowing me away