Estes Park Staggering Elk

Brewed by Estes Park Brewery
Style: California Common
Estes Park, Colorado USA

Picked up a single 12-oz bottle at Brennan’s Country Farm Market in Brookfield, Wisconsin. Pours a muddy golden/caramel brew with a fast dissolving white head that leaves behind only a film top. Aroma of light caramel malt with apple skin, some hard fruits, and citrus hops. Taste is fruity, medium bodied, well-carbonated with flavors of sweet apricots, ripe pears and some bread malt. Finish is semi-sweet and a quick disappearing mild bitterness.

12 oz bottle. Pours a yellow gold with almost no head that quickly disappears.

The aroma is sweet corny malts.

The flavor is sweet macro malts and a little honey with some leathery bitterness in the finish. The mouthfeel is medium and watery with no carbonation.

Overall, this is actually worse than some macro lagers.

Appearance: Pours a cloudy copper body with a thin, wispy white head. Smell: Aroma of newly harvested grains and citrus hops. All of this is very, very light, mind you. Taste: Scant caramel sweetness that mellows in the mouth until the faintly hoppy finish. Mouthfeel: Medium-thin body. Medium carbonation. Drinkability: Special thanks to lil’ Timmy Linder of Longmont, Colorado for submitting the label. Nice work, Timmy!

Name: Staggering Elk
Date: 09/08/2007
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Cellar Party

opaque dark yellow, fine white head, slightly sweet cereal aroma with a strong earthy component, creamy body, lots of rich grain flavor, well balanced by the earthy quality,

Aroma: 4/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 4/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 7/20
Rating: 2.1/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: *+/4

Pours a hazy golden bronze with a thin, wispy-lacing white head. Aroma of fresh spicy spruce and pine needles with some pale malt. Body starts thin and watery with a light malty presence and some piny bittering hoppy character toward a blander, but drinkable finish.

Had this one bottled thanks to Slothgar! Greyish yellow, bubbly pour with a filmy white head, nose of sweet malts, candy apples. Apple juice permeates this one. Unusual but pretty good.

From a 12 oz. bottle with no freshness date. Poured a hazy, dull yellowish golden with a foamy white head. Aromas of lemon-lime, floral and sweet pale lager malts with corn. Good carbonation and a crisp, smooth medium-light bodied mouthfeel. Tastes of corn and sweet malts, a lemon-lime soda flavor, a light grassy hop, very light, and a corny, malty finish with a little lingering lime soap flavor. Drinkability, well I tried it, glad I only purchased a single of this.

[Colorado Road Trip – 2006] An easy to drink lager that seemed to be missing a few steps. Liked the flavor but there was some lagering issues. Maybe too high of temps. I would probably give this a better score on a better pour.