3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle 375ml.
[ Vintage 2007 ]. Clear medium amber color with virtually none head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, wood, tobbaco, oxidide malt, moderate to heavy alcohol. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a long duration, wood, alcohol. Body is medium to full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20100602]
Earlier Rating: 9/22/2009 Total Score: 3.9
Bottle 500ml. [ Vintage 2005 ].
Clear medium orange amber color with a small, fizzy, virtually none lacing, fully diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, caramel, berry, raisin, plum, wood, alcohol. Flavor is heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium to full, texture is syrupy - oily, carbonation is flat flat, finish feel is moderate to light heavy alcohlic. [20090321]
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottled - vintage 2005. A red amber beer with no head. The aroma has notes of oxidation, over ripe fruits, spices, and Sherry. The flavor is very sweet with strong notes of over ripe fruits, Sherry, and caramel sauce as well as medium notes of alcohol and light notes of spices, leading to a sweet finish where the notes of alcohol, caramel, and oxidation lasts for a long time. Thanks Mike for this treat for my birthday.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
37.5 cL bottle, gold. Pours hazy orange with a diminished off-white head. Dense, roasted and spiced aroma. Sweet, dense oxidised malty and roasted. Distinct solid hoppy and oxidised flavoured. Sweet and sticky caramelish flavoured. Dense and syrupy. Solid sweet caramelish base flavoured. Lovely but clearly demanding!
4.3 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
UPDATED: OCT 11, 2010 Bottle 50 cl. Courtesy of Ungstrup. Vintage 2005. Clear amber golden with absolutely no head. Intense aroma of overripe fruit and honey - almost mead-like in character with the alcohol already showing in the nose. Very full-bodied, completely flat, intense accents of nuts, caramel flower pollen and overripe fruit - perhaps a little licorice also. No bitterness but a warming alcohol finish. 8/3/8/5/17=4.1 220309
Bottle 50 cl. RBESG Rome 2010. Clear, amber golden with no head whatsoever. I didn’t find the aroma all that enticing at first - almost rotten actually - but with a little time the beer really opened up revealing pleasant and VERY oxidizid Sherry notes, wood and sweet tobacco. Very full-bodied, completely flat with a massive alcohol - like vintage Sake. Lots of oxidized woody flavours and sweet - almost sticky - caramel. Very warming alcohol in the finish. Amazingly sophisticated. 020610
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottled (2nd CS/ES Beer Gathering, thanks S.V.!). Deep copper colour with no head at all. Aroma is malty, fruity and a bunch of raisins/plum along with sweet wooden notes as well as some chocolate and alcohol. Flavour is cherries, chocoalte, mild raisins, some toasted notes as well as toffee and mild plum. Wellbalanced and nice!
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottled. Deep ruby, no head. Aroma of madeira as well as soy sauce, like SA Triple Bock. Very sweet and hugely full bodied with viscous mouthfeel. Very intense. Meady menthe, intensely warming sherry. Faint notes of coffee. On some sort of edge between overly sweet and fantastic. This beer certainly grabs your attention.
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
Bottle. Pours a dark amber color with no head. Has a sweetish malty dark fruit and caramel aroma with hints of candy sugar. Sweetish malty caramel, chocolate and dark fruit flavor. Has a sweetish malty caramel finish with hints of dark fruit in the aftertaste.
4 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Entered to celebrate my # 5200th Rating. Thanks Ryan. Pours clear dark amber with small bubbles on top. Complex nose and flavor. Raisin, Prune, plum, caramel and toffee. Oily, vinous, syrupy and sticky. Light warmth. A true sipper.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
UPDATED: NOV 21, 2012
2012-11-20, vintage 2009, shared at La Fine Mousse, Paris, 14% ABV, 5-4-6-3-11=29
Unrecognizable beer, with sweet flavor, but without the good and rich malt flavor that was expected; insted it has a vegetables note, mostly in the aroma.
2010-08-21, vintage 2006, 7-4-8-3-15=37
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Reddish amber color; flat. Nice malt aroma, fruity, with just a touch of oxidisation and alcohol. The flavor is extremely sweet, malty, very rich; there is just a light oxidisation, a mellow feeling, with a touch of sweet nuts, toffee and raisins; in the final there is some wood, Very pleasant, with medium complexity. The final is sweet, caramelly, quite short, but also corto (Spanish). It doesn’t reach the richness and complexity of the Silver and Copper.
2010-06-04, vintage 2007, RBESG 2010, bottle at Bir&Fud, Rome, 8-4-8-4-17=41
Dark copper-amber color, hazy and flat. Mellow malt and caramel aroma, sherry. Sweet malt flavor, rich, with light oxidization, resins. No bitterness. Excellent.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
(500ml “gold” bottle, 2006 vintage) Pours a clear golden amber body with a spare off-white head. Aroma of honey, butterscotch, oxidation notes, vinous, and raisins. Flavor of caramel, raisins, butterscotch, toffee, and honey.
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