Ellicott Mills Firecracker Bock

on tap-pours a thin white head and slight hazed yellow/gold color. Aroma is medium malt-sweet caramel/rock candy, medium fruit. Taste is medium malt-sweet caramel/rock candy, medium fruit, alcohol/medicinal, some hops.

Hazy, yellowish orange in color. Some aroma of sour fruit. Taste of citrus with some sourness. Weak.

Date: 07/16/2006
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub

clear amber, creamy off white head, nice lace, soured carmel malt aroma, nice tart green apple flavor, a bad bock but a decent sour apple lambic

Aroma: 1/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 8/20
Rating: 2/5.0
Drinkability: 4/10
Score: *+/4

Sweetish, cidery, a bit boozy. Lightly foggy, light bronze. Medium mouth, oily mouthfeel. Vanilla notes, Sour and somewhat homebrewy. Some smokiness in the aroma.

Draft at the brewpub, July 2006. A slightly hazy orange beer with a thin orange head. The aroma has notes of butter and fruit. The flavor is acidic and sweet, with notes of caramel and butter, and the acidity burns slightly in the throat. The butter seems like a brewing flaw.

Poured into a glass unlike the other beers (this one wasn’t part of the $1 special). Copper with a slight haze. Good head. Smell off. A bit of lambic-like funk. Sour again. Cherry. If it had any depth of flavor, it might hav e made a good flemish sour.