4.1 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle.
Pours clear red chestnut with a small, creamy, beige film head. Aroma has toasted caramel, chocolate, plenty of plums and raisins and is light vinious. Medium carbonation, dry and creamy mouthfeel. Flavour is dry, lots of dark chocolate, hazel, dryness, light coffee, figs and biscuits. Light warming finish.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
A - Dark brown with a finger of frothy khaki-tan head. Fades fairly quickly.
S - Sweet caramel malts, brown sugar, caramelized malts, some dark fruit, dark caramel malts, toffee, English yeast, nuttiness, vanilla, and some booze.
T - Sweet caramel malts, brown sugar, caramelized sugars, raisins and other dark fruits, darker caramel malts, nuttiness, vanilla, English yeast, and some booze.
M - Medium-full bodied with moderate carbonation. Smooth with a sweet and warming finish.
D - Nice balanced old ale. A touch on the thin side.
4.2 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle. Pours clear brown colored with a nice off white head. Aromas of toffee, biscuit, molasses, dried fruits and cherries. Sweet and boozy flavor. Great.
4.5 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
Pours translucent hazelnut. Aroma bursting with ripe plum and apricot. Beautiful well balanced molasses and caramel up front that has a well balanced long finish.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
27th March 2011
Cloudy dark brown beer, residual pale tan head. Smooth palate, dry. Fresh malt, a little creamy. Trace amount of chocolate. A little dry wood. Whisper of hop before a dry finish. All right.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Sampled in the bomber. Aged two years. A really finely malted brew that is bubbly but so smooth. A really fine palate.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle from Pikkulintu, Helsinki. Colour is brown with small white head. Aroma and flavoirs are raisins, toffee and malta.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
2005 vintage, 750ml bottle pours a translucent, copper amber with one clump of white head. Nice nose, oxidized, light leather, orange, mint, brown sugar. Flavor is minty, brown sugar, orange, toffee. Medium bodied, lightly sweet finish.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 15/20
75 cl bottle @ Olutravintola Pikkulintu. Rated on 4.12.2010
Aroma is rather sweet with lots of malt, some ripe fruits, caramel and toffee. Flavour is sweet with way too much grainy malt, caramel, ripe fruits and hints of biscuits. Very smooth and nice palate. Too sweet for me.
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle with friends. Poured a murky brown red color. Aromas of cherry, cocoa, sugars, creamy malts, nice hop bite at the end. Other tasting notes of plum, spicy yeasts, roasted malt, and candy sugar. Excellent.
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