Coney Island Sword Swallower Steel Hop Lager

22 oz. bottle. Pours a lasting white head, with loads of lacing, over a clear,golden (SRM 7) body....nose of bread, biscuit, yeast, grass.....taste initially cereal, then slight toffee, with light fruit (peach), then lingering light bitterness.....mouth feel is medium, carbonation low. This is a very nice Pilsner type, and an unexpectedly good beer.

Bottle. Poured a clear medium orange color. The head was thin, white, and left some lace behind on the glass. Fruit dominated aroma that included the likes of apricot, melon, and orange. Light to medium bodied and delicately sweet up front. Dry and grainy at the end with noble and resiny hop flavors. Nice.

Bottle. Small white head with good retention, spotty amounts of lacing, transparent yellow body, and slow-rising carbonation. The aroma was malty, fruity, some bready notes, and hoppy. The flavor was bready malt, hoppy, some citrus hops, and a semi-dry finish. The mouthfeel was fairly smooth and this is a medium bodied beer. Easy to drink for the style, but nothing to write home about.

Bottle. Pours a brassy gold with an average white chapeau. Cereal malt and grassy hop aroma. Sweet grainy malt palate, hints of cooked peaches, and a kiss of slightly resinous hops. Not bad, but not one I would pay premium prices for again.

on cask at Stout NYC. Body is very cloudy dark golden yellow, with a thin creamy off-white head. Lots of yeast chunks. Aroma is sweet and bready malt like challah, some stone fruit, and armpit-like hops. Bready malt flavor is more like sourdough, fruit is more like the peach pit, and floral hops are too resiny. Finish like envelope glue.

22 oz. purchased at the local Whole Foods. I don’t know what drove me to purchase this beer, but I figure "what the hell?" Anyways, a nice thin head sits on top of this beer. It eventually fades away to a smaller almost non-existent head. Copper brown in color; this beer looks fairly decent. A fairly decent aroma of hops in this one. I was surprised by this, I was figuring there would be a lot more malts, but it is surprisingly hoppy. Not a very nuanced aroma, just hoppy, with some sublte malt sweetness i.e. a rather boring aroma, but still fairly pungent. Surprisingly hoppy as well. A very nice initial hop punch, with a very strong bittering hop that punches the back of my mouth. This beer has a subtle off-putting tea flavor, but it is VERY subtle. Hoppy beer with not a lot of malt action going on. Fairly straight forward, but not very interesting.

Bottle at Papsø. Clear golden coloured with a medium sized white head. Sweet and fruity aroma of spices, hops and grass. Fruity flavour of spices, hops and grass with otes of pine needles. Dry hoppy finish.

Bottled. Golden coloured. Hazy. dense off white head. Sweetness, flowers, light spice and herbs in the aroma. Flavour is light grassy, herbal, light spiced, citric and flowery. Has a piney touch. Medium bodied. Dry bitter quite astringent end.