Nice refreshing full flavor, moderate aftertaste.
4 out of 5 Stars.
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51 North Pecan Turtle Trifle
Initial metal taste, but smooth sweet flavor comes in nicely and leaves you with a sweet caramel flavor.
4 out of 5 Stars.
Oskar Blues Dale’s Pale Ale
No aroma other than maybe an old nasty beer smell. Luckily after further sniffs, the clouds parted some and there was a hint of fresh hop sweetness. Flavor is a bit edgy with some hop sweetness overlayed with some harshness. Aftertaste is a bit harsh them fades off to a moderate hoppy maltiness. Not bad, but a bit too much harshness hiding here and there to make it too enjoyable. Says it was canned on 03/08/13, which makes it only 2.5 weeks old. Nothing about it tastes fresh, though.
After letting this warm slightly from the ice cold state, flavor actually mellowed a lot and new flavors came out with a nice maltiness. Bumped it up a half rating.
4 out of 5 Stars.
Wychwood Bah Humbug
Super sweet smell. Very wet flavor, not bitter at all. Almost a Belgian yeast flavor. No real aftertaste, smooth.
4 out of 5 Stars.
Rogue Santa’s Private Reserve
Slight sweet aroma with an alcohol hint. Clean taste with moderate hop bite, fades out and replaced with malt aftertaste.
4 out of 5 Stars.
Beau’s Lug Tread
Light lager-like aroma. Sweet taste that has a clean malty nutty-like flavor. Leaves little aftertaste other than that nut/malt flavor. Flavor comes out a bit more as it warms, may have started too cold. Says packaged on 12 11 13 at 10:37, but I’m drinking it on December 8th. Ymmv. Batch 3341.
4 out of 5 Stars.
Schmohz Hopknocker
Very sweet aroma, almost like bourbon. Strong sweet flavor with a high alcohol bite with some hop sweetness. Follows with a strong malt taste which fades slowly into a high alcohol sweetness.
4 out of 5 Stars.
Odd Side Ales Black Citra Not so Pale Ale
Sweet, dark, and dry aroma. Sweet dark malt taste immediately followed by a rotated malt clean taste. Fades out fairly quickly and just gives you hints of malt to linger.
4 out of 5 Stars.
Flying Monkeys Smashbomb Atomic IPA
Dry aroma with a minor hint of hops. Taste has a moderate hop bite followed quickly by sweetness. Good balance of hops and malt comes in then fades out slowly. Leaves the mouth with a nice balanced flavor with hops winning out slightly. Not anything Canadian I’ve had before, actually has a unique strong flavor with nice hoppiness.
4 out of 5 Stars.
Two Beers Evolutionary
No real aroma. Nice mildly sweet hop flavor. Leaves you with a nice light hoppiness that fades out quickly and cleanly. Nice thick looking, unfiltered beer.
4 out of 5 Stars.
