The pale yellow beer erupts with head to the point that, as you can see in this picture, the froth spilled over to make quite a mess on the table I just cleaned. Nevertheless, this is a pretty picture, and I'm happy to slap my logo on it. The aroma should be apples, right? Well, it is much too faint, and it is more lemon zest than apples, but I think I may smell a green apple in there with it.First sip is very sweet, and I would say it tastes more like a dutch apple pie than a crumble cake, but I suspect that comes down to texture more than taste. When it comes right down to it, if you liquefied both of them, could you really tell the difference? Well, I can't. But, this tastes good.
Tip-in is gentle carbonation tingle with cinnamon and apples on top of a very nice, crusty malt. The middle is smooth and sweet with sugar rising up with the apples covering most of what seems to be a citrus swell. The finish hits a bitterness pin before the sweetness turns to syrup (or possibly that sauce that the canned apples come in) before a cinnamon-apple trail off.
Bottom Line: These guys know their dessert beers, and this is a good one.
3.75/5
