4.3 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
Looks fantastic. Big puffy tan head, doesn’t want to disperse. Very deep copper/amber colour. Slightly hazy when held up to the light. Aroma is simply fantastic. Very floral, some sweetness, then pepper, reminiscent of celery. Don’t call me crazy, but from a distance the aroma is ripe almost like ripening strawberries. Wow! The flavour is very complex, VERY complex. This a serious hop attack! Gorgeous. There’s some ginger, I’m sure there’s almost nuances of peat flowing through it, roasted malts, peat smoke almost. Some caramel. Treacle. This beer could certainly be aged if so desired, but I’m afraid life is a bit too short on this occasion. I’m sure there’s sweet malt in there, I just can’t get past the hops. Palate is great, soft, lush and creamy. Wonderful beer. I’m seriously digging these guys. They are kings of beer.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Draft at Blue monk. Sherry colored pour. Rich maltiness, almost barley wine like. Toffee notes. Good dose of hops. Big bitterness. Pretty tasty. Strong and boozy. Aggressive on the palate
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
bottled, rbesg 08 grand tasting. reddish amber with a minimal beige head; aroma of caramel and nutmeg; decent hints of honey and rye with some grassy bitterness; reasonably good
2.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 5/20
My first beer from this brewery and I am not at all impressed. +++ Sampled from a 16.9 oz brown bottle this beer poured a murky dark brown color with a small creamy tan head that left minimal lacing. The aroma was pleasantly funky and bready with notes of sour caramel, faint molasses, cherry and licorice. The flavor was bitter and astringent with elements of wood, earth, must, bread, funk, chalk, bubblegum. leather, tobacco and smoke. For all the complexity there was a pervading offness almost rancidness that totally spoiled what seemed to have the potential to be a decent brew. I wonder if some sort of infection was present. Long finish. fairly full bodied. Some promise here but I ended up dumping it.
3.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
500 ml. bottle. Served at cellar temperature. Pours a medium, tiny bubbled, lasting ivory head, with attractive lacing, over a hazy dark amber (SRM 13) body....nose is heavy toffee/caramel, treacle, brown sugar, lighter citrus, pine.....taste is toffee/caramel, dried fruits including golden raisin, fig, cherry, finishing with a medium, lingering, light pineapple, citrus and resin hop bitterness....mouth feel thick, alcohol hidden, carbonation makes a very creamy sensation. This is definitely an American Barley Wine in style. It has 80+ IBU’s per the label, but is nicely balanced between the malt and hop backbones. It has good complexity. BJCP 7/3/15/4/8
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Tasting@de Molen
Cloudy dark amber, beige head. Nice barley wine aroma! Taste has dried fruits, medium sweet and medium bitter. Rather dry. Bit too dry and bitter this one. Carbo could have been a little less as well.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Aroma is nice and hoppy. Pine, floral, and some molasses. Pours red with a frothy medium head. Taste is great. Good hop forward pine notes, some molasses in the mouth and finishes with a notetaker pilsner yeast. Great drink.
3.4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Ruby body, off white body. Dried fruit, grapes, cake, bit sandy. Taste disappoints, with dead hops and sharp, astringent bitterness. Too old, probably. (At the De Molen tasting)
3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Sampler at de molen, just over the thy date.
Lovely aroma. Thin white head. Very bitter aftertaste. Nice beer
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
50cl bottle.
Pours a clear dark amber with a big white head.
Smells amazing of ripe fruits, pine needs, and lots of hops.
Tastes odd; something like smoked peat, lots of bitterness, grass -- like a "sideways" bitterness though. It does grow on you, and then the medium sweetness comes in, with plenty of caramel flavor.
Syrupy texture. Medium body. Soft carbonation. Finishes dry.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
500 mL bottle shared by Butters at the 17th Richmond Ratebeer Gathering, 1/28/12. Pours a clear amber color with a thin off-white head that fades quickly. Aroma of toffee, earth, salt, herbal and citrus hops, toasted malts. The taste is sunflower seeds, citrus, toffee, caramel and brown sugar. Full bodied, low carbonation, lingering bitterness.
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