ON tap at brewery. Hazy orange brown with a sweet hoppy aroma and taste with a mild bitterness and a smooth finish.

I should have known better. I always find Franklin’s beers way overhopped and bitter so what do I order? An IPA. Smelled nice. Some good grassy/citrus notes, but the flavor is pure aspirin. This is one of the most unpleasantly bitter beers. I get so frustrated with Franklins because I feel like they have so much potential but get way to caught up in the "must hop everything" mentality.

Tap at brewery with Aaron and family: Hazy deep amber with small head but good lace. The aroma has grassy and herbal notes, dirty yeast esters, hint of tangerine and bready malts. The taste has notes of soft grains with a muddled fruit and a lack of defined flavor. The mouth feel is sticky and smooth. I choose badly...I really wanted an English Styles Pale Ale at the moment.

Pours a transparent copper bronze with a thin, wispy-lacing white head. Aroma has a nice, mild English hoppiness and some toasty, grainy notes. Starts fairly full with some mild soapiness and bittersweetness toward the finish. A decent British-styled IPA.

Pours a hazy orange amber with a white head. Faint aroma of citrus and bready malts. The hop bitterness is a dominating flavor of grapefruit rinds, which overpowers the caramel malts in the background. Long bitter finish, with a hint of acidity and soap. Decent, but perhaps too fruity for my tastes.