Line Stepper
Mully's Brewery
- From:
- Mully's Brewery
- Maryland, United States
- Style:
- American Pale Ale
- ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3 | pDev: 3%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Mar 23, 2015
- Added:
- Sep 20, 2014
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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Hoppy pale ale? Malty IPA? We don't mind crossing lines. Now it's your duty to take that step, because toeing the line just isn't enough...
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by ThisWangsChung from Maryland
2.91/5 rDev -3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
2.91/5 rDev -3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
22 oz bottle into a wine glass.
Appearance: Pours a murky copper color. The head is two fingers high and off-white in shade. Retention is very good, and the stickiness of the texture leaves behind a nice ring of lacing. (3.5)
Smell: Ummm...where are the hops? I'm almost getting nothing but malts here. It doesn't even smell much like an amber ale - it's closer to a brown ale with its healthy nuttiness and caramel. As far as hops go...no citrus, no pine, no earth, no nothing. To its credit, the malt backbone is well defined. Part of me thinks this is an old bottle, but a bigger part of me remembers that this brewery just released this beer a few weeks ago. Fresh pale ales that smell like old ones are never a good thing! (2.5)
Taste: It's not utterly devoid of hops, but at the same time, they're entirely swallowed up by the toasted and caramel malt presence. The only hoppiness I pick up is a light bitterness on the front end. There is more to this beer's malt flavor other than obstructive and generic sweetness - sugar cookie, nuts, toffee, toasted bread, and (of course) caramel all come through. The malt presence is solid, now just ramp up the hop profile about 100%. (3)
Mouthfeel: Hops would have also helped cleanse the finish better. It has the slightly biting carbonation which doesn't really dry the finish as well as it should. It's rather sweet and even sugary on the back end, which turns it into a sipper rather than a drinker. (3)
Overall: They should have called this a amber ale, because that's exactly what it tastes like. I might have gone to town with the score, but then I remembered - it's a GOOD amber ale. Really, it is. It's just when hops are promised on the label, I expect some level of hoppiness. For that, I still have to give it a mediocre score. (3)
2.93/5: It crosses the line between over-malted and under-hopped quite well!
Oct 06, 2014Appearance: Pours a murky copper color. The head is two fingers high and off-white in shade. Retention is very good, and the stickiness of the texture leaves behind a nice ring of lacing. (3.5)
Smell: Ummm...where are the hops? I'm almost getting nothing but malts here. It doesn't even smell much like an amber ale - it's closer to a brown ale with its healthy nuttiness and caramel. As far as hops go...no citrus, no pine, no earth, no nothing. To its credit, the malt backbone is well defined. Part of me thinks this is an old bottle, but a bigger part of me remembers that this brewery just released this beer a few weeks ago. Fresh pale ales that smell like old ones are never a good thing! (2.5)
Taste: It's not utterly devoid of hops, but at the same time, they're entirely swallowed up by the toasted and caramel malt presence. The only hoppiness I pick up is a light bitterness on the front end. There is more to this beer's malt flavor other than obstructive and generic sweetness - sugar cookie, nuts, toffee, toasted bread, and (of course) caramel all come through. The malt presence is solid, now just ramp up the hop profile about 100%. (3)
Mouthfeel: Hops would have also helped cleanse the finish better. It has the slightly biting carbonation which doesn't really dry the finish as well as it should. It's rather sweet and even sugary on the back end, which turns it into a sipper rather than a drinker. (3)
Overall: They should have called this a amber ale, because that's exactly what it tastes like. I might have gone to town with the score, but then I remembered - it's a GOOD amber ale. Really, it is. It's just when hops are promised on the label, I expect some level of hoppiness. For that, I still have to give it a mediocre score. (3)
2.93/5: It crosses the line between over-malted and under-hopped quite well!
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