3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
UPDATED: MAR 9, 2003 (15%)Malt, yeast, citrus aroma. Deep amber, fluffy head, lots of floaties. Almost like a mild single malt scotch! Quite strong, of course, a most interesting beer!
3.3 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Ive had this at 55 degrees for over 2 years...dont know how old it was when i got it...it pours a clear orangish amber color with a thin head that quickly dissappears completely.. and has a quite nice woody malt aroma with some nicely defined bourbon, caramel, vanilla, and candied fruil notes ..very impressive aroma indeed!
Prickly carbination greets the tongue, followed by slightly torched caramel flavors...turning slightly to show alcoholic shadows..solid sweetness...oxidized sugarcane...Definite caramelly malt flavors..Alcohol dominated palate, right above the slightly astringent feeling....but, better than i expeceted, not as good as i had hoped..obviously.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
UPDATED: APR 29, 2003 I tend to like the bigger beers and this onw with a 15% abv was big. The high alcohol was too obvious though and the brew very sweet overall. Not one to quaffe but one as an after dinner liquor only. A specialty brew.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
15% version. Nice orange color. The commercial description is right-on. Strong up-front sweet malt, dark brown sugar/molasses giving way to a lasting alcohol burn in the finish. I like it, very warming. A substitute for a whisky or cognac perhaps.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
A copper colored beer with a small off-white head. The aroma is strong with notes of alcohol, caramel, toffee, and malt. The flavor is very sweet with strong notes of caramel and toffee, as well as lots of alcohol, that gives a lot of warmth in the mouth and throat, the end is dry and sticky.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Very clear, dark honey-amber coloured; slim white rim. Quite sweet and caramelly nose, alcohol only comes in at the end. Nose is very fleeting, poorly developed. Sweet, nutty taste, caramel-covered cookies with nuts, something like a liquid Milky-Way bar, but inarguably finer – with an incense-like flavour. There’s alcohol in the taste – no doubt, but it’s especially the MF that gets a numbing shock… Slick, oily and burning. Alcohol disguises the body fullness. Long syrupy aftertaste. It’s still a sipping beer, but I have the strange impression it’s more refined than the 15% original – if that one really attained this value in the bottle as on paper.
3.3 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 11/20
No head on a medium amber hazy body. Poured very thick & lightly syrupy w/ thick alcohol legs on the glass. Soventy hairspray alcohol aroma @ first whiff, followed by a corn sugary sweet aroma. Vanilla as it warms, then some winey and woody notes; hints of scotch whiskey; very oaky woody when it warms. Well balanced w/ a hop bitterness in the finish into the aftertaste which is highly bitter. Alcohol, whiskey, woody flavors, very little fruitiness, dry finish but malt flavored mid palate. Not much depth overall. Very full bodied & smooth with some alcohol burn in the mouth as it leaves. I’m not sure exactly what to think of this beer! I’m not 100% sure I like it a whole lot. It’s complexities are low for a bigger beer and seems more like watered down whiskey to me.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
This brew pours a small head of quickly diminishing small fizzy bubbles. It had a light orange brown color. The aroma contained notes of malt, hops and a discernable alcohol content of medium strength. It had a stong alcohol flavor that was very over powering the other flavors. It was smooth yet burned as it went down. Truely a devilish brew!
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