Appalachian Grinnin Grizzly

Brewed by Appalachian Brewing Company (PA)
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania USA

On tap at the Lehigh Valley Brew Fest ’04. Poured a hazy brown color with an off white head. Nutty aroma and tastes. Very light spices. Watery body.

GBof A PA-on tap-pours a thick foamy tan head and amber color. Aroma is spices-cinnamon, clove, medium malt, fruit. Taste is lots of spices-cinnamon, clove, medium malt, fruit. OK carbonation. Occasional.

Draft pint at Appalachian in Harrisburg. Between this and the weizen bock I don’t think I drank 16 ounces total from my two pints. Serves me right for trying something new from the ABC. This one is a filtered reddish brown color with soda pop bubbles sitting on top in a small film. It’s consumed in overdone, highly amplified potpourri spices, just absolutely consumed in them, with, unfortunately, bad notes of cardamom, pumpkin (heavy), nutmeg (faint) and soapy dark fruit. Loose on the palate like every other Appalachain beer, with a heavy mass of mixed, uncoordinated spices that just wreck the entire experience. It finishesdry and pasty, and by the time I’d given up half way through, I thought that a straw might make this thing bearable to drink.

From notes, Draft at the brewpub. Pours copper, with aroma of malt, fruit, cherries. Tastes malty, with cherries, some hops, and some spicy qualities.

Poured a copper color with no head. Mild malt, and some hop aroma. Fruity, cherry, malt cherry taste. Rather watery and adjuncty, not good, really.

On tap and Market Cross a while back: Nice deep ambver ale almost brown with a slight aroma of spice. Subdued flavor of ginger and maybe a hint of nutmeg but I couldt really detect much else. Nice maltiness covers everything nicely just to let some of the spice out. Good session ale for the fall.

Bottle. Pours a translucent brownish amber with golden notes and a smaller creamy off white head that left some lacing. Aroma of strong ginger, nutmeg and cinnamon. Getting a touch of the orange and some caramel and nuts. I actually enjoyed the aroma on this one. While the spices were upfront I think it was appropriate for what they are going for. In the flavor the spices were a little more subdued with more of a toasted malt/nuts up front. Would have liked a little more body.

12oz. Bottle: Aroma of spices, allspice, cinnamon, cardamom, birch, slight malt, and light nutmeg. Poured orange/amber/copper in color with a large, creamy, beige head that diminished but lasted throughout. Cloudy. Lightly sparkling. Full of tiny particles throughout. Good to very good lacing. Flavor is slightly sweet and slightly bitter. Tastes of light malts, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, and spices. Medium body. Dry texture. Average carbonation. Spice, allspice, and nutmeg finish is lightly dry.