 willblake (2176), Belcamp, Maryland, USA
| 3.3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 6/10 | 3/5 | 13/20 |
Aug 11, 2005 08.11.05 12oz bottle. Amber pour with creamy and bit lacing white head. Lots of grapefruit on nose, caramel (barely), quite floral, some cat pee. Flavor doesn’t back up hops from aroma and this is mostly bitter. Rather thin bodied and straight forward beer...sweet, then herbal/floral (brief), then quick dry hoppy bitter finish. Not much mineral.
Braudog (3762), Dayton, Ohio, USA
| 3.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 5/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 14/20 |
Aug 6, 2005 Pretty orange copper with a big rocky head. Caramel-grape aroma. Dirty hop flavors with a caramel malt undercurrent. Bitter tea finish. Good.
jcr (1153), Jasper, Indiana, USA
| 3.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 3/5 | 6/10 | 4/5 | 13/20 |
Aug 5, 2005 Average American Pale Ale. Blend of sweet malts with a hint of hops. Subtle aroma of grain, citrus. Average carbonation. Crisp feel with a medium to thin body. Nice balance.
bkelley68 (467), Lakewood, Ohio, USA
| 3.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 4/5 | 6/10 | 3/5 | 12/20 |
Jul 29, 2005 Copper color with a foamy white head. Snappy, flowery hops in the aroma with underlying malt that has
notes of toast, biscuit, and carmel. Nice balance. Lively carbonation. Full of toasty, chewy malts and
balanced out with assertively bitter, flowery, somewhat herbal hops that have a slight tea leaf flavor.
Toasted malts echo with flowery hop bitterness. Quite pleasing.
brentfeesh (1038), Gadsden, Alabama, USA
| 3.3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 4/5 | 6/10 | 3/5 | 14/20 |
Jul 18, 2005 Pours hazy amber, not bad looking. The aroma had minerals and sweet caramel malt. To my surprise, the flavor was just like the aroma. Sweet malt and caramel, as well as pine hops are present in the flavor (though the hops are secondary). I also noted a mineral/metallic taste. Nothing too special here. I bet it’s better at the brewery, but it is drinkable in this format.
SDbruboy (1832), San Diego, California, USA
| 3.3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 14/20 |
Jul 12, 2005 Bottle - thanks to slob for the trade! Pours clear, reddish amber with a small off-white head. Aroma is dominated by the rich carmel malts along with fresh and crisp citrus and floral hops. Flavor is pleasant with the aforementioned mallts and hops in nice balance and a little earthiness in the mid notes. Light to medium body and gentle carbonation. A good session ale.
Palidor19 (1773), Brandon, Florida, USA
| 3.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 5/10 | 3/5 | 6/10 | 4/5 | 13/20 |
Jul 11, 2005 Quite the standard for a APA, simple combination of malt, hops and yeast.
Bitter and malty, after taste is quite bitter
Recommended
nick76 (2657), Tampa, Florida, USA
| 3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 4/5 | 6/10 | 3/5 | 11/20 |
Jul 11, 2005 Updated: Jul 14, 2005Certainly this is good but is unique in its interpretation of an ESB. Aroma is a nice balance of malt and hops with some yeast in there. Appearance is a reddish golden color that is too light for an ESB. Palate is average and the aftertaste has a lingering bitterness. Certainly nothing wrong here I think it just misses the ESB mark a little.
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