This should be called Sawdust ale as it has that rather pine wood tinge happening in the flavor. Texture isn’t bad with a slightly hoppy dry finish to end things on a decent note.

From 12 oz. bottle into unchilled pint glass at Vortex Midtown. Beer pours a moderate copper colour with moderate white fluffy crown, 1-finger worth on a very timid unaggressive pour. Aroma is full of sweet malt and grassy/earthy hops, nothing too fancy but impressive when compared to other American ales. Strong malt backbone all the way through the taste, with a hop profile that starts strong and bitter and remains all the way through the full taste to the end, causing a crisp finish but just a little bitter. Medium-bodied with spritely carbonation in the beginning that helps leave the hop aroma lingering in the mouth afterwards. More like a malty pale ale than a hoppy ESB, but very decent if this is supposed to be the flagship beer. Would love to taste it on draught.

Bottle 12 fl.oz. @ chris_o’s Pre-GBBF Shindig 2008.
Clear medium amber color with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, berry, moderate hoppy, orange, spicy. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, spicy. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. (020808)

Bottle. Poured a clear amber with a two finger tan head. Aroma of sweet malt and earthy hops. Flavor reflects the aroma. Medium body with good carbonation and an almost creamy mouthfeel.

Pours a light copper brown. Coaxed a one finger creamy light tan/yellow head. The nose is pretty mild, some sweet malt in there, some caramel, some herbal earthy hop character. . The flavor is unmistakably....peanuts, no joke. I mean salted shell peanuts. Some grassy hops show in there too. I can’t get over the peanuts.