3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Dark brown with medium brown head. Sweet aroma with notes of hops, grapefruit and caramel. Sweet flavor with hops, caramel and chocolate notes. Ends bitter.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle from Barleywine, Copenhagen. Dark brown with lasting white head. Mainly hops in the aroma. Very malty balanced. Dark fruits, caramel & toffee. Good lacings. Very warm with a medium body & a good hoppy dry finish! Nice!
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bright ruby brown with a huge head that froths up high and falls down fast. Sounds like falling snow. Interesting aroma - charred, plummy, woody, brown sugary with canned tomato. Not terribly cohesive but it’s interesting. Full body with a big warming alcohol splash. Chocolately body with lots of burntness though it’s not very acrid thankfully. Some plummy, fruity depths, again, more interesting than cohesive. I’m sure with this much alcohol this beer would wear thin quickly.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
(Bottle) Pours a mahogany body with a small beige head. Aroma of molasses, grapefruit, pine, and roastiness. Flavor of spicy hops, herbs, dark fruits, and brown sugar.
4.5 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 19/20
Bottle at RBESG 2007. Ruby colour with lasting beige head. Intense grapefruit aroma. Awesome malt in mouth. One of the beers of the day.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle. Pours dark brown color with a small off-white head. Malty hoppy aroma with some spicy hints. Sweet malty spicy hoppy bitter flavor. Long warming malty hoppy finish.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
(22oz bottle) Large, rocky beige head atop cola black body. Aroma is moderately sweet, herbal, some grapefruit, caramel, dark chocolate. Taste is sweet, plum/raisin, herbal, chocolate, vinous, floral/grapefruit, caramel. Low carbonation, sticky full body. A hodgepodge of flavors, the net effect of which is a whole that’s less than the sum of its parts.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle at Helene’s. Dark brown (almost black) - offwhite head. Sharpness, bured, roasted, berries, dark bread, ryebread, sharp hoppy, licorice, caramel. Light alcho-burn.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle, 22oz. A dark brown beer with a reddish hue. Sweetish, roasted aroma with dried fruits and beef stock as well. Quite sweet on the palate, with beef stock, hops and pine, finishing with a lasting flavor that has a coffee-bitter twist. Maybe a bit thin body. I love the flavor combo this beer shows, and it went very well with figs and vanilla ice cream. (071228)
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
22oz bottle @Tampa Wkly Gathering–shared by gunhaver/Geiger, pours an offwhite head with brown color. Aroma is dark malt-chocolate/caramel, dark fruit. Taste is dark malt-chocolate/caramel, dark fruit, some hops in the background. Occasional.
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