3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottled. Dark brown colour with a medium off-white head, average lasting and nice lacing. Aroma is toasty, caramel and buttery. Flavor is light caramel, red fruits are also present, chocolate and toffee. Short and dry final. Medium carbonated with medium to high body.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottled. Rubyish brown colour with a mediumsized foamy off-white head, which leaves some lace. Aroma is sweet caramel malts, mild nutty notes, some syrup as well as mild alcohol and some mild spicy/yeasty notes. Flavour is sweet malts, some mild floral and ripe fruity notes along with some nutty and syrupy notes.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Dark burgundy brown with lots of yeast sediment in suspension, topped by a creamy tan head that lasts for a while leaving a thin lace. Sweet and sour aromas, with shy cranberry coming trough. Medium body, a slightly bit of sourness hits first with candied fruit and caramel following. Not a long finish, but enjoyable and very easy drinking. Nothing memorable but well done.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 13/20
Decent taste. Very holiday tasting will keep you warm during the winter. Decent beer.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
In short: A fruity, roasted, spicy and strangely tart dark ale. Approximate amalgam of stuff. Meh.
How: Bottle 500ml. Consumed approximately 10 months after bottling date, 4 years before expiration date
The look: Opaque dark purple-brown body topped by a medium beige head
In long: Nose has some red berries, a bit of chocolate, a bit of cardboard, tart tropical fruits. Taste has tart red fruits, roasted nuts, lemony acidity, roasted oats, some burnt caramel, burnt paper, a mild-medium spiciness. Body is a bit light and there a few too many little hard bubbles. This wasn’t a bad beer per say, but it wasn’t a fun beer to drink in a way that is hard to put into words. It was here and there and felt amateurish. One of those beer that feels like someone poured 3 different beers in your glass. Drinkable but not good, this is a beer I didn’t need to drink, from now on I will drink less by only drinking high quality beers, and if there is one thing you can count on me doing every day of my life, it is to plan on cutting down on my drinking tomorrow.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
On tap at Man in the Moon, Stockholm, December 2011.
Dark brown with a small tan head. Rather sourish aroma and taste. Malt, licorice, dark chocolate and nuts. Also some notes of smoke and spices. Drinkable but a little to thin.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
My Bottom Line :
Toasted bread crusts, chocolate and berries are bothered by pickled undertones and tartness in this ever-so-slightly flawed brew.
Further Personal Perceptions :
-A creamy layer of foam covers the ruby-hued brown.
-Best-before date says it should last till 2014...
-The ample carbonation and healthy sugars (not lean, but not heavy either) make for a pleasant mouthfeel.
-Spiciness from the specialty malts gets overshadowed by the rising, misplaced tartness.
-Those malt flavors could truly be pleasant.
Bottle.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
500ml bottle, batch 315, dark mahogany color, with a big pillowy beige head, mild brown chocolate, cocoa powder, faint sweet, vinous fruity nose, with some brownie, light dark dried raisin, fig, date notes, and some mild molasses, yeasty, brown sugar accents in the aroma follows through on a meddium-bodied palate with a light sweet acidic, vinous, fruity, chocolatey, cocoa powder, mild coffeeish, dark dried fruit character of raisins, figs, dates, with a faint cappuccino, soft chewy roasted, toasted, caramel, biscuit malt, molasses, brown sugar undertone, leading towards a brown chocolate, sweet maltiness, vinous fruitiness finish.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle from last year. Nice head with good duration. Color is close to black. Aroma and taste are roast malt, caramel, nuts, fruity notes and hops.
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 8/20
Color lleugerament fosc. Notes de torrat, xocolata i especies en nas. Agradable i fàcil de beure. Lleugera. Potser li falta un punt de contundència.
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