3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20 FatPhil (6205) - Tallinn, ESTONIA - NOV 21, 2011
330ml bottle (Maatilatori, Helsinki)
6 Initially dusty and fruity - sweet syrupy fleshy fruits.
4 Rich orange, huge firly persistent off-white head.
6 Simple sweet malty body, hint of wholemeal toast, plenty of bitterness. Alas some hints of liver and metals.
3 Thin palate, fizzy carbonation. Finish bitter and resiny.
12 Good for its strength, but lacking the succulence of prior ones.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20 bierkoning (8099) - La Tropica, NETHERLANDS - NOV 14, 2011
Bottle from Tbone, thanks! Orange color, pours an immense head. Grapefruit and herbal notes in the aroma. Sharp citric oily hopbitter flavor. Thin. Long oily herbal hopbitter finish. Good!
3.4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 14/20 mile (1447) - Helsinki, FINLAND - SEP 1, 2011
Bottle. Light amber, hazy, small to average and mostly diminishing head. Moderate, malty and sweetish aroma, tropical fruitiness, some grapefruit hoppyness, faint caramel. Body is light to medium, malty and sweetish flavor, tropical fruitiness and grapefruit hoppyness, faint caramel. Finish is average, malty and lightly sweetish, some fruitiness and sharp grapefruit – piney hoppyness. Nice one but body is too thin - also in the finish hoppyness gets bit harsh/sharp.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20 Miksu (4012) - Jyväskylä, FINLAND - SEP 1, 2011
0.33 l bottle, thanks hanniku! Hazy amber color. Citrus peel aroma. Dry bitter, nutty and slightly yeasty flavor with citrus. Strong long palate numbing bitterness.
2.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 8/20 madmitch76 (6173) - , Essex, ENGLAND - AUG 20, 2011
30th July 2011>br>ChrisOs ’Donkey Dork Lord’ Pre-GBBF Tasting. Very hazy gold beer with good off white head. Mild hops, not that much fruit at all but some bitterness. Doesn’t work for me.
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20 fonefan (24928) - VestJylland, DENMARK - AUG 10, 2011
Bottle 330ml. @ chriso s Pre-GBBF Shindig 2011.
Unclear medium orange yellow colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is light to moderate malty, moderate hoppy, citrus, passions fruit - kiwi, peach. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20110730]
3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 13/20 KyotoLefty (3752) - Kyoto, JAPAN - AUG 8, 2011
Bottle at Chriso’s Pre-GBBF Shindig, 2011.
Cloudy brown-orange color. Fruity, juicy, estery nose. Flavor of sweet orange, grains. Dry, hoppy, with nice sweet malt and good balance.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20 oh6gdx (16000) - Vasa, FINLAND - AUG 8, 2011
Bottled@The Chriso Pre-GBBF Shindig 2011 "Donkey Dork Lord Edition". Goldeny amber colour with a small head. Aroma is wood, fruits, some floral notes as well as mild hayish notes. Flavour is fruits, wheat, some herbs and mild floral notes.
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 13/20 rosenbergh (3486) - Helsinki, FINLAND - AUG 6, 2011
330 ml bottle. Finland.
Hazy golden colour with big fluffy off-white head.
Exotic fruity hoppy aroma with mild sulphur notes.
Flavour is mildly bitter fruity hoppy. Thin. Some mild bitterness in aftertaste.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20 Scopey (1659) - Croydon, Greater London, ENGLAND - JUL 31, 2011
Bottle at chriso’s Pre-GBBF Shindig ’11. It pours orange-yellow, with a thin foamy white head and moderate carbonation. The nose is orange, marmalade, apricot and some cheesy hop. The taste is lemon-lime, soap, weird spiciness, astringent and wood with a bitter finish. Thin as hell. No thanks.
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