Flat Earth Element 115

Brewed by Flat Earth Brewing Company
Style: California Common
St. Paul, Minnesota USA

22 oz bomber thanks to tytoanderso. Shared with friends over black bean soup and cornbread. This is actually my first California Common rating, so about time. Pours a clear copper color with a white head that fades quick. Nose is malty. Caramels, apples, a little citrus. Similar flavors with a floral and earthy hop finish. Decent and drinkable, but nothing I’d want again.

22oz bottle acquired in trade with tytoanderso (thanks!). Poured a deeper golden color with a smaller sized off white head. Aromas of caramel, citrus, and lightly fruity. Tastes follow suit with the fruitiness more apparent.

Bottle pours a crystal clear copper color with a nice off white head and spot lace. The aroma is floral and caramel. The flavor is of sweetness and ale fruit notes followed be a dry finish and some nice balanced bitterness. The palate is more rich than I expected for the style. Overall, not bad. Very drinkable.

Thanks to tytoanderso for the bottle. Clear amber/orange with a small, fizzy head. Aroma of light caramel, floral and grassy hops and some sugary-honey sweetness. A lot like an amber. Not much spice. Medium-light body. Mostly dry finish.

Date: 12/22/2007
Mode: Plastic Bottle
Source: Tasting, Cellar Party

hazy orange, huge off white head, bits of lace, lightly sweet caramel malt aroma with earthy hops, sweet caramel malt flavor, well balanced with earthy hops, lasting bitter finish,

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 11/20
Rating: 2.9/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *4

Pours a transparent copper bronze with a large, fully-carbonated pillowy off-white head. Lightly sweet grainy pale malty nose has a touch of caramel and fresh hops. Body starts with a nice, light sweet and an earthy hoppy balance with a touch of fruity esters. Fairly true to style and enjoyable.

Bright, slightly dirtied, faded orange with a slimming golden cast to its body. Small, thin capping of lightly yellowed firm froth that shares a few bigger bubbles in its mist of foam. Fades quickly to a thin collar and a thin wave or two of skinny fingered lacing. Aroma is clean and light with some light berryness and pear peels over some light grains and grasses. Semi smokey in a way with a yeasty doughy aspect of dryness. Taste is pretty good with a complexingly subtle tone and character that leads one subtle tone to another with one very easy glide of crystal malt-like smoothness. Smooth and clear upfront with a eager little berry essenced malt sweetness. Gradual yet quick snap to a doughy grained center of yeasty estered dryness comes in and balances out to a firm lofty finish of slight lemon zest, crunchy pretzeled bread edges, and some leftover yeasty stuff thats tenderly earthy like fresh picked mushrooms that have been washed in hard water. Feel is about medium with a bit of a thinnish front that is really the only partial compliant, as it makes up for it as it goes it gets a bigger body and growth of flavors and length as it snaps into place the rest of the way. Even though this has its complexities, I needed a bit more out of it other then the yeasty play that seems to be the main attirbute of the Flat Earth line thus far. Enough with the yeast alreay, give me some more malt and hops please. But, be that as it may, its a pretty solid brew that is fairly enjoyable for its bomber worth. Beyond that, it become tiresome?

A la muzzelhatch: Draught pint shared with Argo0 at the Happy Gnome in St Paul, RBSG Minneapolis pub crawl, June 22 2007: Ruby caramel color, light head and lacing. Nose of sweet caramel malt, some candy apple and semi-sweet flavor. Nice chewy malty notes. The finish is musky and grassy, lemon, nice and caramelly for a California common.