3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Dark brown pour, thin, sparse creamy light brown head.
Aroma is mostly roasted grainy beer.
Flavor adds some sweet, rich coffee with fruit hints. Flavor is better than the aroma, but I wish it was a little richer, especially since it is Bells.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
12 oz bottle. Another great brew from Vince. Pours black with a thick foamy head that forms from a hard pour and quickly fades to a ring. Aroma of chocolate, dark rye bread, and some roasty smokey malt. The flavor is more dark rye bread with some bitterness from the roasted grains, no alcohol taste at all. The body is fullish with some help from the rye but not as full as I would have thought, mild carbonation and a thick smooth mouth feel. This is an interesting beer, I don’t remember having anything quite like it. The rye adds a nice dimension to the body and flavor. Thanks again Vince.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Stoutesque in a stout-like fashion with stoutish elements and stoutful presence carrying for a stoutment for mankind. Hell, I did enjoy this, but can say with all honesty that I was doing that thing with my head that dogs do when they seem confused, tilting it from side to side and furrowing my brow. Also can’t recal who sent this in trade - shadey? Okay, let me piss off everybody with a lame rating and bad ending ....
(DID like it, that CAN be said)
3.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
(Sample Date: 11/7/2009 Source:Once Apon a Vine - Northside) 12 oz bottle. Roast and chocolate up front in nose with coffee and caramelized sugar in the background. Clear almost black with small dark tan head. Roast and chocolate in flavor with some spicy (rye) notes and almost a hint of woodiness. Lots of chocolate toffee flavor especially in the finish. Finish is medium sweet with a light spicy bitter finish. Excellent.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
12oz - 7235 - Aroma is roasted malts and big rye with small coffee and hops. Pours black quickly fading brown head and decent lacing. Flavor matches aroma with a weird back of the throat stickiness. Palate is dry and creamy. Different and tasty.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle. Pours dark red brown-black with tan head. Aroma is bitter coffee, caramel, and rye. Flavor is coffee, rye, molasses, caramel, and very dry.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
12oz bottle pours black with almost no head. Aromas of roasted almost burnt malt and coffee. Flavor is nice roasted malts and bitter sweet chocolate as well. Dark roasted malts comes through as well also just touch of coffee/chocolate... Palate is smooth and creamy. Medium bodied. Amazingly drinkable. Would work well as an everyday stout.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
12 oz bottle batch 9370 thanks 17thfloor for sharing. Pours nearly black with a small but creamy light tan head. Aroma is super heavy rye, surprisingly smoky and a bit peaty, roasted nuts, some chocolate and coffee beans. Flavor again, very smoky some and roasted nut forward. Dark chocolate and bits of dark fruit come out towards the middle and give way to a strangely boring finish, lightly bitter coffee and roasty. Medium to full body and a light fizzy carbonation. Sadly flat in the finish and all around alright. Not bad, just decent.
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