 Toxygen (402), Sanford, Florida, USA
| 3.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 5/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 15/20 |
Dec 30, 2009 (br-btl wh-lbl with red leaves, 6.8%)
lct-cpr, thin wh head, ^eff, patchy lace, full body, ~co2.
aroma: ^cascade-hop.
flavor: citrus-hop T1, herbal-citrus-hop(cascade) T2, hop-bitter T3.
great with fatty foods to slow cascade-bitter build up.
KYbrewgal (16), Kentucky, USA
| 4.5 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 9/10 | 5/5 | 8/10 | 5/5 | 18/20 |
Dec 30, 2009 12oz bottle. Pours dark gold with a tall off-white head. Citrus hop aroma with faint whiffs of toast and light caramel. Medium to full bodied, bitter flavor up front, then malt with some sweetness with a long grapefruit finish. A nice beer for the cold weather. Very drinkable.
jkaiser (227), Orlando, Florida, USA
| 4.3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 9/10 | 4/5 | 18/20 |
Dec 30, 2009 Part of my 09 Xmas 7 beers. This was the best one. Wow, I haven’t had an IPA this good since Bells Two Hearted Ale and Hopslam. Love the label. Freakin beautiful.
Ryan82SM (276), Louisville, Kentucky, USA
| 3.4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 12/20 |
Dec 30, 2009 Aroma of caramel, toffee, biscuit, red grape and navel oranges. Appearance is copper with a good sized creamy head. Although hoppy, the flavor features a nice caramel malt backbone with perhaps a touch of brown sugar. Palate is nice and bubbly. A well made beer, but certainly overinflated in the rankings.
dsw4b (4), Clemson, South Carolina, USA
does not count  | 4.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 5/5 | 10/10 | 5/5 | 20/20 |
Dec 29, 2009 This beer was an impulse buy prompted by a surprisingly low price. I took note of the brewery and little else. It should come as no surprise, then, that I expected a very malty beer with little hop presence and a very full body. It seems a large number of beers brewed for the holiday season fit into that mold. The initial aroma did little to convince me otherwise. My wife disagrees with the mild aroma assessment, so maybe I’m imagining that (or have a cold or something). Anyway...
Wow. Lurking beneath the mild aroma was a mouthful of hops. The body is medium-light and the head is soft and seems to last forever. But the hops... There is almost no balance contributed by the malts, and for me, that is a good thing. A little more in the area of aroma might be desired (if for no other reason but as a warning to unsuspecting drinkers), but overall, this could easily be my favorite beer for now.
Had I known at the time of purchase that this beer was this good, I would have picked up a case or seven.
carl4beer (409), Fairfax Station, Virginia, USA
| 3.8 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 17/20 |
Dec 28, 2009 Pour copper clear with thin head. Aroma is floral and bitter. Mouthful is full or floral hops with a nice lingering finish. Always enjoyable.
ksbeerkid (28), Emporia, Kansas, USA
| 3.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 6/10 | 5/5 | 14/20 |
Dec 27, 2009 Bottle. Pour a bold orange color with a thick white head. citrus notes in the aroma, taste is a very smooth bitter, nothing over the top. finishes a bit sour with the lasting hop flavor. Pretty good lil beer here
wajacobs (22), USA
| 3.3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 5/10 | 4/5 | 6/10 | 3/5 | 15/20 |
Dec 26, 2009 sierra’s celebration ale is a favorite of mine that I look forward to every year
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