3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Barley aroma. Amber with hints of read, no head. Malt and grain flavor. Smooth and creamz, nice
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Light nose, dark brown color, fresh barley malt taste - light malt extract. Somewhat sugary too. Full body and a clean palette.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
UPDATED: FEB 22, 2003 traveling along a sea of creamy cherries...riding a raft of licorice root in a storm of raining cola drops..
Metallic cherry scrapings..licorice hail..smooth but thick but refreshingly not so thick..all at the same time
4.2 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Sweet, malty aroma almost toffee-like. Very smooth creaminess and a clean finsh.
4.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 19/20
I liked the appearance of this beer. It is more like a dark-brown lager to me. It has a toffee like taste and a very smooth creaminess.
2.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 1/5 OVERALL 12/20
This stuff tastes like aass. Sorry obvious joke. This has a nice caramel malty flavor, but dissappears in my mouth. It does seem to go well with heavy food.
3.9 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
UPDATED: JAN 6, 2003 Re-rate: Haven"t encountered the wateriness noted below in subsequent samples. Major boost in order
Beautiful garnet color with very nice dark fruit aroma framed with alcohol. Delicious bock flavors of heavitly carmelized malt. Comes up short, however. Much like ordering an ’Optimator-and-water’. Not bad, but watery palate reminds me that better dunkel bock is available.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
Malted milk nose with some winey malt. Fluffy off white head. Assertive malts w/o too much alcohol. Slightly sweet with a malted milk ball finish, good but not
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