Nice malt aroma, not too dark. Taste is a bit sweet, but is followed by a moderate malt taste that is an intermix of clean grain and sweet syrupy stuff. I would prefer it to not be so sweet.
Sweetness fades significantly as it warms slightly. Comes through with a much cleaner grain taste.
4 out of 5 stars.
Sweet, dry aroma. Slightly crisp flavor bite quickly backfilled by a clean malt taste. Finishes slightly sweet, but clean. Best by 9/29/2016, and drank on 6/29, so still 3 months of life left.
4 out of 5 stars.
Slightly sharp hop aroma. Slight hop bite followed by nice malty flavor with some caramel sweetness lingering. Refreshing, although the sharp hop bite and full malt flavor seen a bit like two competing radios at high volume. One or the other turned down a bit would be nice.
4 out of 5 stars.
Sweet aroma, crisp taste. Refreshing and crisp but not much malt presence.
4 out of 5 stars.
California common lager from Iowa. Slight sweetness followed by moderate malt flavor. Slight corn meal taste. No real hop presence. Nice, but not overly exciting.
4 out of 5 stars.
No real aroma. No real hop flavor. Maybe it tastes like nectarines.
4 out of 5 stars.
Wheat IPA. Clean, a little sharp hop flavor, not much noticeable wheat flavor.
4 out of 5 stars.
Nice dark malt aroma. Taste is a bit cofee-like with a moderate hop flavor coming in. Minor aftertaste of dark malt.
4 out of 5 Stars.
Slight hop aroma. Moderate hop bite and malt taste. Light hop aftertaste.
4 out of 5 Stars.
Nice clean aroma with a hint of raspberries. Slight edge of bourbon flavor that gets replaced by dark malt, and then a nice raspberry flavor comes in. Overall very balanced 3-way tug-of-war going on between bourbon, dark malt, and raspberries. You can feel the alcohol heart in the aftertaste, slightly lingering in the back of the throat. I think I would like it more of there were less bourbon presence, and it was just the dark malt and raspberries commingling.
Bottled 10/06/15, drank 11/17/15.
4 out of 5 stars.