3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Sample from bottle at the Only Cafe Spring Beer Fest. Pours a murky orangey brown with small off-white head. Aroma is mostly dark fruit and wheat. Flavour is dates, grains and light spiciness. Modest bitterness in finish. Interesting
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
UPDATED: APR 25, 2012 [4328-20120310] Bottle. Lightly toasted malt aroma. Hazy, dark brown amber body with a very quick foamy off-yellow head. Malty grain flavour has a lingering leafy maple note. Medium-full body. Tasty enough, drinkable. (7/3/6/3/13) 3.2
Overheard: "I’m giving Polly Pocket an operation because her head fell off."
(c/o tuqueboy, w/ him, jerc)
[4361B-20120329] Bottle. Light smoky leather buckle aroma. Dark red body with a medium-lasting creamy tan head. Lightly toasted fruity roast flavour. Medium body. Fair. (7/3/7/3/13) 3.3
(Beaulo @ Volo, Toronto, ON)
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle at craig’s. Hazy amber with a white head. Aroma of Belgian yeast, ripe fruits, sweet fruits, leaning towards banana or bubblegum but not quite. Similar taste, nice fruity yeast notes, figs. Slightly sweet. Decent
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
bottle at The Danish Invasion tasting ...deep brown ... thin white lacing ... soft sweet toffee malts nose ... sweet roast ... some dates ... little fruityness ... little yeast ... definite date tones ... mellow
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Pours a dark brown with an off white top and a little lacing. Aroma is brown sugar, raisin, dark malts and wheat. Taste is dry wheat and raisin. Not bad beer, although no where near the $17 price tag.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
@ BEAULO , bottle 750ml
Aroma herbal, date fruit, slightly medicinal dry notes.
Appearance hazed dark amber with medium top. Rocky sparse lace. 3+
Flavor and Palate : As in aroma , character felt bit flat. Dark hints , dry mid with thinner walls. Thin sugary hints on top end. Rather forgettable.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
2012-03-10. Very dark brown large foamy brown head fades fast. Sweet aroma, sugary, fruity character, like raisins or dates, presumably the latter. Flavour is similar, sweet sugary malt base. Fruity character. Average plus bodied palate. Bit boozier than preferred, it might have been better served slightly colder. Pretty decent. Bottle shared by Tuqueboy
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
600ml bottle, batch 1826, no 1505, dark amber-brown color, with a bubbly beige head, but falls quickly, light spicy stewed apple, yeasty nose, with a sweet toasted, caramel, biscuity malt, dried raisin, date accent, and some apple pie, fruitcake, cookie dough, faint brown sugar cane notes in the aroma follows through on a medium-bodied palate with a sweet spicy, datey, stewed apple, dried raisin yeasty, cookie dough, light fruitcake character, with a mild toasted, caramelized, biscuity, bready malt, faint brown candi sugar, toffee, soft oatmeal cookies with dates flavours, with a subtle, flowery citrus orange peel hop undertone, leading towards a spicy, fruity yeastiness, mild sweet date, faint lingering citrus lemon peel, leafy hop bitterness finish.
3.5 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Pours hazy brown with off-white head. Aroma is ... interesting, to say the least -- three-part figs, alcohol and dark sugar. Taste is interesting as well : the dates are much more obvious, but so is the cane sugar, to a point where the beer has a strong feel of rhum, without being liquorous at all. Finish is rather long, but smooth, and the hops, while doing their job, are certainly not at the front. All in all -- an interesting brew that I wouldn’t necessarily be looking to try again, and that has absolutely nothing to do with the price, which is extremely high but can probably be explained by the price of the raw ingredients.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
In bottle, from the brewery.
Has a nice nutty brown ale type of robe, hinting on the richness to follow. Has an aroma of light alcohol hiding behind dates (initially I though of figs) and a floral bouquet or something fresh and intriguing.
Low carbonation makes the neck not stay for long. Does look tasty though with it’s off-white caramel looking neck.
Ends on a lightly bitter short finish.
Nice experiment, I like the results. though not as tasty as the wild oats greener future ones, still worth it.
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