We continue on through our the toughness of drinking and reviewing beers that we can't obtain in Ohio. It's a terrible job, but someone has to do it, and those terrible people who do this said terrible job are the terrible two known as Behind The Tap. Did I say terrible enough in that last sentence?
Capital has done some interesting stuff (see our reviews on Mutiny IPA, Lake House, and Island Wheat). Let's hope this one doesn't disappoint before the coup de grâce, do to speak, of the night/month (see our next review).
This pours a crystal clear amber with a small amount of stark white head, visible carbonation. The aroma on this is sweet, crisp nose of caramel and bread. The flavor, however, is faint. There is some earthiness that peeks its head in the middle, sandwiched by sweet malt on both sides. Almost a corn like flavor at times. Tastes like Stroh's or PBR, just another American Lager. Nothing too impressing with this. It's smooth drinking and the flavor doesn't linger long.
3/5 caps
-Nathan-
OK, now I'm scared. This doesn't seem to be promising. Well, let's see what happens.
The appearance is precisely as Nathan described. The aroma is all caramel and bread from the malts. It starts out earthy, there's a bright blast of oranges and citrus, and it's not nearly as bad as Nathan said. Wait, I spoke too soon. Taking a second sip, that orange has completely faded to sweet corn. The orange isn't even there anymore. What the heck?!?! Nathan said he also didn't have it in his until the second sip. The first sip is actually quite delightful, considering I'm not a huge fan of ambers. And then the strange corn earthiness takes over the rest of my portion. It's one of the strangest brews I've had. And I don't mean in the "too rare to live, too weird to die" kind of way. Huh, imagine that: I'm the one including the Hunter S. Thompson reference for a change.
It's not dreadful, but it's strange. I can't think of any other way to describe it.
3.2/5 caps
-Jennie
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