First Tracks
Commonwealth Brewing Company

From a can Look is very hazy light golden. Emphasis on very hazy. Smell is of honey, battery acid, and bandaids. Taste is very juicy and hoppy with extremely sweet aftertaste. Feel is very nice with a fluffy mouthfeel. Overall not impressed.

Had from can bought at Growler shop in Short Pump, VA March 2020

Pours a turbid yellow-orange. Aroma is mainly citrus with some dank tropical fruit. The flavor reveals additional grassiness with some peppery notes that I'm not digging. Mouthfeel is too green with a slight astringency. Not bad but not as good as I expected.

Really exceptional, with the perfect level of sweetness, zero green astringency, and wonderful doses of citrus and tropical fruit.

Murky, turbid, cidery OJ body with a heavy haze and light off-white head. Doesn’t really look like beer at all, and easily it’s worst quality.

Big, bold, and bright nose of dank greens, fresh-squeezed citrus juice, tropical fruit salad, fresh-cut grass, candied berries, light biscuit, juicy fruit gum, and white grapes. Maybe a little cedar and pine. Fantastic.

Taste profile is right in line, very juicy and a tad sweet (which I like), but it’s a fruit sweetness, not lactosey or boozy at all. Quite grassy, almost zero bitterness, and very smooth. No chalkiness or astringent greenery.

Feel is luscious, velvety and soft. Well carbonated.

Had on tap. Hazy bright yellow with a finger of white foam. Smells strongly of pineapple, mango, lemon, peach, and melon, and hazy hops. Taste adds some watermelon, passion fruit, and grapefruit to the fruit mixture, all swirling together in a matrix of haze.

 

L: Poured from a tallboy can to a snifter glass. Had a brownish-yellow color and a very cloudy consistency. There was a half inch of foamy, somewhat long-lasting head. Below average lacing.

S: A pretty good aroma of hops, a floral quality, malt, citrus fruit, and tropical fruit.

T: Tasted of a bit of malt (mostly in the finish), a fair amount of tropical fruit (passionfruit, in particular), a slightly grainy quality), a tinge of the floral quality (very fleeting), some hops (not too much, though), and a bit of citrus fruit (orange). A solid, focused, and balanced flavor. It has an odd quality to it, but still manages to work.

F: A good amount of carbonation with a smooth finish. Medium-bodied.

O: It's not overly unique, but this beer's quite solid. Worth a look.

 

 

I don't see a date on the bottom of the can.

Appearance: The beer has an opaque, light milky beige-yellow body. It has a short creamy textured head. There isn't much head retention but it leaves a sheet of thin foam that coats the entirety of the ring.

Aroma: It smells a bit like fresh hay and alcohol with a bit of cabbage.

Taste: It has a bit of an earthy root-like taste with some odd herbal taste that is off-putting. There is an odd chocolate flavor.

Mouthfeel: The label lists this as "8.2% Alc/Vol" and the beer does an excellent job of hiding the alcohol. Bitterness is kept low on the beer but there is just enough bite to keep it interesting. It has a light body with a thick texture.

Overall: The odd combinations of aromas and flavors in this beer make it one that I wouldn't recommend or want to try again. It is good enough that it is drinkable but the beer is not very fulfilling.