4.5 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
0.65l bottle @ The Bishops Arms (Vasagatan), Stockholm. Pours a light clouded orangish body and a small slowly fading and nicely lacing just off-white head. The aroma is so complex and nice; pine, citrus, caramel, cortex, kiwi, melon, strawberries, salt, apricot and some nice mild hints of alcohol. It has a average to lively carbonation level with a nice slick and light oily mouthfeel. Flavors are also so perfectly packed together that it’s hard to tear them apart. Still, I’m gonna try: Lots of hops mixed and blended with pine, peaches, green grapes, kiwi, melon, cortex, branches and it’s leaving the mouth really bitter and dry. A beer yule just fall completely in love with. Halleyulea!
4.4 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 17/20
I let this bottle warm a bit out of the fridge and then poured aggressively to get a huge, off-white, thick, foamy, fluffy, billowy head that slowly subsides and some lace. Color is a very slightly hazy, orange amber with a few slow bubble trails. Aroma is hugely hop, citrus, malt, oak, vanilla, resin. Flavor’s pretty much like nose with the citrus/hop on top with bittersweetness right under followed by those other things. Body is full with hop points and slightly soft carbonation. Finish is like flavor giving way to resin, very long, and has some alcoholic warmth. Well crafted beer, but too much hop for me.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Sampled at SBWF. Stockholm, September 29th, 2011.
Creamy sweet aroma with big malt notes. Hops in the background that present itself in flavours of grapefruit, peaches and caramel. The body is special and quite enjoyable in this beer, it’s very sparkling. Flavours in the taste of caramel and toffee with a big bitterness. I have a feeling this bottle was quite old.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle. Clear golden body with a medium white head. Aroma is fruity hops, mango, pineapple, caramel. Flavor is hops, pine, pineapple, grapefruit, caramel. Nice lacings. Medium carbonated. Tasty.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
Serving: 22 oz. bottle from LeopoldStoch. Thanks Brandon! It pours a hazy gold with a small, soapy head. The nose is full of resinous hops. The flavor is pine, resin, light caramel notes, and some bread. Medium bodied with virtually no carbonation. It may be a tad faded but it’s still pretty tasty.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle 660ml @ home
Pours cloudy deep golden with a off-white head. Aroma has notes of malt, caramel and pine. Taste is medium sweet and medium bitter. Body is medium to full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bomber (8,5% ABV). A clear medium to dark blonde beer, with a large, frothy/fizzy, lightly lacing, mostly lasting white head.The aroma is lightly to moderately malty (caramel, toasted grain), moderately hoppy (grapefruit. apricot, pine), with notes of toffee and alcohol. The flavor is moderately to heavily sweet, lightly to moderately acidic, moderately bitter. Medium to full body, oily/syrupy texture, lively carebonation, very long finish with heavy bitterness, moderately alcoholic. First of all, this beer is pretty good in every field, without being spectacular in any. Unbalanced but tasty, abrasive but very perfumey. Prototypical Westcoast DIPA, straightforward and with some flaws, but very tasty, I have to admit.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle. Pours orange with a fluffy white head. Floral and citric hoppy aroma with some toffee malts. The flavor has floral, citric, and earthy hops, with toffee sweet malty notes. A little bit on the old side for an IPA, but still pretty good. Hopefully I’ll have the chance to re-rate this at a fresher point. As it stands right now, at about 6 months it still drinks pretty good.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bomber. Not the outstanding brew that I was expecting. Advertised as being ’Super Hopped’, but I found the hoppiness and the bitterness to be quite tame.Has all of the charactoristics of a good Double India Pale Ale and is well balanced. No bitter punch at the end. Possible that I had a bad bottle as I did not find this until mid-October.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Hazy amber with a finger of puffy white head that retreated quickly, leaving small rings of lacing. Hoppy aroma - grapefruit lemon and orange with hints of caramel malt. Taste of citrus fruits, pine and apricot giving way to caramel malts, honey and a hint of earthiness. Very smooth. My bottle had a couple months of age on it but very little of the hop profile has faded.
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