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Well they have certainly made a huge effort with the packaging here. 300 ml bottle (as opposed to 330), with the paper striped cap, and raised lettering and flat sides on the glass. Quite the production, probably added $2 to the price of the beer!...
Second in the 25th anniversary series. Collaboration with Gigantic. I do like a Mezcal barrel. I've come to learn that. Tangerine colored pour (appropriately enough) with a modest white head. Retention a little below average. Nose and tastes do...
Nice pop, good gun smoke. For the record, I've never seen a single second of Game of Thrones, and frankly have no interest. Back to beer. Very vivid golden color with initially a bubbly, wispy head. The head fades but still leaves lots of thin lace...
Finch's beers have been in Atlanta for a few weeks now but because I am SICK TO DEATH of the can hysteria which has been obscuring the infinitely more important factor of the beer in the container, I have been actively avoiding sampling these as a...
I'm a big fan of lemongrass in all kinds of contexts and beer is no exception. I like the crisp, fruity element that it can bring. Of course it is a tricky thing to deal with since the balance can easily be upset by using too much, but ultimately I...
12 oz single from Mac's, Atlanta, GA as part of their mixed sixer. The second time I've had this, the other occasion being on draught at The Wild Wing Cafe on Hilton Head Island, SC. There was definitely a danger of me not giving this beer a fair...
12 oz single, thanks to Kevin for the chance to try this beer. Pour is a strange, hazed and cloudy pour with a butterscotch color. This is a sweet, grainy, musty beer which frankly is pretty unimpressive. Some notes of cardboard and a mixture of...
12 oz bottle, typical Tyranena presentation. Bottom line is that this is not a very good beer. The appearance is odd. It has a macro feel about it in as much as it comes with a huge number of small bubbles clinging to the inside of the glass. It...
12oz single, Hop City, Atlanta, GA, USA. Clear, honey golden pour with a decent frothy head. Nose has some acidic malts, but not much else. Tastes are very neutral to me. High level of carbonation gives a mineral like, sodium hydrogencarbonate...
Simplicity on the pour with a nice, orange body hat sits underneath the white head. Some lace, but not much to speak of and the head fades rather quickly. Nose has plenty of grain character but the threat of extra hop presence also wafts into the...
12 oz single from Hop City, Atlanta, GA, USA. OK, not really what I'm looking for in a label, and a quick visit to the website and seeing this is contract brewed, immediately makes me realize that this 100% about marketing and very little about the...
12oz bottle from Hop City, Atlanta, GA, USA as a single. A lovely, golden body with perfect clarity and some excellent wispy, fine lace. Bone-white colored head. Carbonation is medium. Good color, and the fact that the name includes the word...
Thanks go out to Jim for the chance to crack this one. 12 oz bottle. Mmmmm, strange. An alarming, crystal clear pour with a macro like color and a carbonation to match. Looks "ultra" filtered! Nose and tastes reveal soft malts and some grainy...
64 oz growler from Bruisn' Ales. Thanks J & J. Opens with an encouraging release of gas with a loud "pphhtt"! Crystal clear, light golden pour with a very nice head. Some decent lace as well. Carbonation is on the high side, but completely in line...
16oz "pint" at Taco Mac, Douglasville, GA, USA. I REALLY wanted to like this since at 3.9% this kind of beer is just about impossible to find in the US. Unfortunately it was DIRE. Appearance was just the usual, nasty macro, ho head, no lace, watery...
$3.99 (I think) from Hop City, Atlanta, GA, USA. 22oz bottle. Bought this specifically to quench a thirst at the beginning of an Atlanta summer. Pour is bright with a touch of haze and exhibits a definite, dark golden color. It looks substantial...
More marketing nonsense from the big guys. I saw this maybe two summers ago on Hilton Head Island on draft at Mellow Mushroom. At the time I avoided it thinking that it was just another nasty, macro product. A little investigation proved this to be...
$5.25 from Taco Mac, Marietta, GA, USA. 12oz bottle. Cloudy, lemon colored pour that has some chill haze - looks a little Hefe-like. Sweet, mild honey like tastes with little or no distinguishable, nose. Some pepper creeps into the finish. A really...
Taken from notes, Summer 2007. Drank a couple of pints of this at The Bear in Esher, Surrey with my good friend Dave - thanks Dave! Striking light colored pour that the name would suggest. Thin head. Another of the ever popular English "Golden...
22oz bomber from State Line Liquors purchased under the Sharktooth moniker. I think it was $4.99. Golden/Orange hazed and cloudy pour. Head and lace are unimpressive. Nose is a light lemon. Some noisy, and prickly carbonation. Quite bubbly in the...
12 oz single from Tower on Buford, Atlanta, GA, USA. Macro lager colored pour with a much better head retention and lace than the similar looking brew. Carbonation is not huge, but is persistent. A lot of malt character, quite sweet. Despite that...
=== Updated Review 06/08 === A bit better than a year ago - not much, but a bit. Same, darker than average oour and same dry finish, but this time with a little more of an IPA hop note. Still flat looking with no head, but at least there was some...
The funny thing about this beer is the fact that the brewery offers a Light version of this! Good Lord, anything lighter and we'll have water! Anyway, typically macro in so many ways, all the way from the piss weak color, the lack of aroma and the...
Not my favorite style, but the more I drink this type of beer, the more it grows on me. It seems to improve down each glass too. Very much a golden color with some initial head, but the head and lacing are gone soon. A lot of freshly mown hay and...
As others have a noted, a buttery, malt taste about this beer, with a definite thin feel in the mouth. However, there is a nice hop balance and a lightness that makes this very drinkable. Hops are small, and this definitely on the APA side of IPA,...
Pretty pale Pilsner type appearance with a small head that disappears to leave some decent lacing and some surface cream. Carbonation is good and "tops up" the surface head nicely. Some fruit acid type character or pepper in the aroma. Interesting...
Hazy, cloudy pour with a small head that left quickly. A lot of unidentified particles (yeast?) at the bottom of the glass. Amazingly strong aroma of apples, and an acidic taste led me to believe that this was more like a rustic English cider. In...
Slightly above average, light colored, easy drinking beer with a refreshing thirst quenching effect but little else to write home about. Standard macro lager looking pour but with a better head than usual, but unfortunately this disappears quickly....
Very deep golden color, with a little cloudiness in the pour. Good head, but this overshadowed by the exceptional amount of sticky lacing that is left on the glass - truly some of the most extensive lacing that I have seen. Sweet, sugary aromas and...
Six pack, twist top. An aggressive pour gave this a full two fingers of head, with large bubbles at the top and smaller ones as you look down through the head. The head itself was foamy in appearance but disappeared quickly to leave a very small...