Spicy, sharp, dark malt aroma with an alcohol aroma. Taste is very broad across the palate with a sweet softness. Finishes pretty clean with a slight malty sweetness. Slight hint of dark chocolate in the aftertaste, but not bitter or sweet, just kinda roasty.
Sweet, citrusy hop aroma. Fairly dry on the palate (yeast effect?) with a minor citrus sweetness. This gets replaced by a slightly caramel malt sweetness. Leaves the palate with a pleasant slight sweetness of malt and yeast work citrus hops hiding in background. Very pleasant.
Be sure to swirl the can to get any hop residue mixed up and into your glass.
Sweet hop aroma, almost sugary. Hop twang with a slight caramel malt backbone, and a slightly bitter hop edge in the aftertaste. This gives way to a flower hop flavor that them fades slowly.
Nice dark malt aroma. Taste is smooth, without a bite, with nice flavor. Flavor is broad with dark malt and some sweetness. Interesting combination of dark malt and rye. Finishes work very little lingering flavors after a bit of sweetness fades.
Nice floral hop bouquet, with a tiny hint of dark malt in background. Very smooth, with hop flavor but no hop bite. Very interesting mingling of hop flavors and slightly sweet dark malts, with neither flavor taking center stage. Very clean, soft finish, with no real lingering flavors except a hint of malt.
Aroma of sweet fruity hops, like pineapple. Smooth clean taste with a very slight hop edge that fades into a fruity taste and mild malt taste. Very slight lingering hop flavor in aftertaste.
Strong sticky sweet aroma. Thick taste with a tart twang when it first hits the palate, but then the dark malt comes in and smooths it out, leaving a clean dark malt taste. Slightly crisp hop bite helps clear the palate as well. Aftertaste is lingering complex flavor mix of clean dark malt and some clean yeast flavor. Fairly dry on the palate, not thick or cloying like a typical 10+% beer.
Bright tangerine, fruity aroma. Smooth sweetness with no bitterness. Full flavor of hop sweetness with slight tang. Finishes very smooth with little aftertaste.
Fresh aroma of flowery hops and smooth caramel malts. Flavor of hop bitterness is quickly squashed by a full-palate fruit flavor, that finishes slightly thick and sticky with some dry hop flavor lingering in the background. Your mouth recognizes it just had a full flavored beer, but there’s surprisingly little to no heaviness left in the mouth.
Aroma of sharp hops and a hint of yeast. Fairly crisp hop bite mixed with some malt sweetness and yeast tang. Leaves a mild aftertaste of hops, but overall quite clean.
4.5 out of 5 stars.
Craft beer and homebrew from a Michigan perspective.