3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Hazed brown pour with frothy tan head. Sweet caramel malt and a hinto abv. Sweet malt, abv, and some bitter. Medium bodied with good carbonation.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
22 oz. bottle shared by birchstick- thanks, Jon! 2011 edition. Pours a hazy amber with a small eggshell white head. Aroma of vanilla, brown sugar, wood, peat, overripe plums, and earth. Flavor of bourbon, berries, vanilla, toasted sugar, peat, plum, and earth. The flavor is a little sweeter in a sugary way, while the nose is a little fruitier. Medium-bodied, with moderate carbonation. A little messy but not bad.
1.1 AROMA 2/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 2/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 3/20
In short: An uber-sweet mess with moldy and rot flavors. Atrocious.
How: Bottle 22oz. Consumed almost exactly one year after the beer release (assuming only one batch was made). Bottle sent to me as a bonus from jleblanc, thanks Jeff
The look: Dark burgundy body topped by a small beige head
In long: Nose is very sweet malts with a bit of an old garbage aroma, honest, like when you pull you garbage bag from the bin and there is garbage juice under the bag. Taste is grossly sweet, oily toffee, liquefied caramel, rotting vegetables, wet wood, moldy fruits. The alcohol was very well hidden but that’s about the only positive thing I can say about this mess of a beer. This was either an awful beer or I got a bad bottle. I’m not much of a religious person but I believe in god-awful.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle shared at the RBWG in Austin. Red brown pour with an off-white head. Aroma is a little smoke, sweet, light cocoa, and wood. Taste is a little spicy, candy sugar, chocolate, dark fruit, and toasted malt.
4.8 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 19/20
aroma, ohhh so sweet smoky malt scotch aley, color, beautiful amber hue, taste, wow, awesome Iam smiling thinking about it, somkey malt sweetness on the front, mellowing and smoke picking up on the backend, overall Thank you Lushawn, this is one of the best beers ive ever had, I love it! its enough to take my mind of the fact that sam adams is not brewing thier Scotch ale. but that is another story!
3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle shared by alexsdad06. Poured hazy orange amber color with a minimal frothy off-white head that was mostly lasting with fair lacing. Moderate to heavy malt, cherry wood aroma. Medium body with smooth texture and flat carbonation. Medium to heavy sweet flavor with a bourbon cherry sweet finish of moderate to long duration. Very enjoyable brew
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
22 oz. bottle, sent from gn0sis (thanks Eric), split many ways, pours an orangey dark amber with a small beige head. Aroma is intensely peaty and firey, with some caramel malt in the background, lots of booze and sort of a paint thinner / nail polish quality. Flavour is boozy with fire and smoke, bourbon barrels upfront, more subdued caramel malt, some vanilla and intense alcohol. The booze overpowers and surprisingly the body is quite thin. Medium complexity with a burning finish. Overwhelming, but mildly enjoyable in a small amount - it doesn’t seem so expertly made, more like an experiment that just came out the way it did that the brewer decided to release.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
bottle thanks to exiled. poured amber with a white head. aroma was bourbon, toffee, and vanilla with the flavor have pretty much the same profile as the nose. light body with low carbonation.
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Bottle shared at the 6th annual Richmond Industry Gathering, 11/27/11. Pours a slightly hazy amber color with a thin creamy head. Decent head retention. Aroma of bourbon, toffee, earthy notes. The taste is toffee, bourbon and citrus hops. Full bodied. Dominated by the bourbon.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 9/20
Bottle… Pours murky brown with a small, creamy, off-white head. Good retention. The aroma offers an odd blend of brown sugar, wet toasted oak, singed plastic and burnt marshmallow. Full-bodied with a milky mouthfeel and gentle carbonation. The overly sweet flavor provides burnt caramel, raw oak and sourmash acidity. Finishes sweet and woody with a sourmash send-off. Seems watered-down. Bottle courtesy of growler!
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