Gearys Hampshire Special Ale

Brewed by D.L. Gearys Brewing Co.
Style: English Strong Ale
Portland, Maine USA

What a wonderful ale. It smells delicious and tastes even better. This beverage is great year round!!

pours nice and dark brown with a medium head. Aroma.....cheese. Turnips and stale edam. Taste. The aroma continues to dominate with a sugary alcohol bite. Sorry this is awful, down the drain it goes.

Clear brown body with amber hues. Very finely bubbled, egg shell colored head. Smells unique: musty, spicy malt, and an inkling of apricot. Taste starts crisp and sweet with cherry and more apricot fruit, then develops into a big hoppy robustness. Feels creamy on the tongue. Aftertaaste is bitter coffee and roasted wood. Nicely developed, ever-changing, intriguing, full-bodied flavor. Puchased a 12 oz. bottle at "Norm's" in Vienna, VA.

Pours clear orange with a nice whitish head. Malty carmel aroma, with a slight hop note for balance. Big malty carmel flavor, with a lingering hop finish. I really enjoyed this easy drinkin' winter brew.

Clear amber body, frothy white head. Aroma dominated by maltiness. The flavor is very complex! There is a distinct bitter chocolate taste in the beginning which gives way to a bold hoppiness and rounds out smooth and dry. This is a winner.

This 12oz bottle of ale poured a clear dark copper color with an inch of head that fizzled out in a couple minutes. Has a very nice hop aroma that is slightly floral and grassy. Chocolate malt coming through in nose also with notes of nice fresh grains. Medium bodied and smooth with a sharp carbonation at the back of the throat. Flavor is balanced between malt blends and hops with a nice English like bitterness in the finish. I also detect some sweetness in the malts. Overall a fine example of an English style. One that could be a very nice session brew.

Dark amber white faint head. No decernable notes in aroma but there is aroma and it smells good. sweet malty palate. Some what fruity.

Pours a pretty clear amber copper color, it is topped by a light tan head. There is a nice dry hoppy aroma, evocative of English hops; A bit lemony, slightly grassy. Wow, I was not expecting so much hop flavor to be packed into this beer. It has a balancing malt sweetness a bit of caramel. Quite good, I am duly impressed. The hop flavor is citrusy and floral in character. The beer has a medium body, which is perfect for this beer. This is still an easy drinking beer but has enough body to balance the stellar hop flavor. I certainly wish that I had access to more of this great beer. Overall this is a very well put together beer.