Pours a nice reddish dark brown with a great head of brown foam. Scant lacing but good head retention. Mild fruity malt in the aroma. Ah, nice job here. Clean and flavorful - good maltiness with some toffee and some appley flavor, great hopping with a mild bitterness up front, and a pronounced bitterness in the aftertaste. Medium body, great carbonation. I had a couple pints at the brewpub, then bought a growler to take on a road trip. It saved me from the beer wasteland that is Tiffin, Ohio. Well, that might be a little harsh - but it did save me from a night of drinking Killians.

On tap @ the brew pub: Pours a clear copper color with a light tan head. Aroma, pale bready malts, with some yeast and herbal and grassy hops. Flavor, yeasty, grassy with some spices and bready malts, some herbal hop notes as well. This was a pretty nice alt.

Tap at D’Mead. Weak but otherwise good aroma. Excellent lacing. Not a bitter as I was expecting. Worth a try. They must of tweeked this beer since 2002.

bitter and full of hops. aside from that, not much flavor to be defined. very fizzy and carbonated.

One tap at the brewer. Very nice looking, dark reddish brown with a thick offwhite head. Slight german hop aroma with a little sweetness behind it in the smell. Taste is that of a good red ale, big malts backed up by hops, balance is towards malts that are not overly sweet, and have a little roastiness and toastyness (more of that could make this a great beer, to me at least). Very smooth, fairly balanced, medium body.