3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
First beer at the Bottleworks Cellar Tasting for Seattle Beer Week. Pours murky brown with a slight white head. Smell is slightly tart and funky, bit of Belgium going on. Taste is complex, prune and Belgium funk, bit of chocolate. Ok.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle. [thanks after4ever]
Pours ruby red with a small, creamy off-white film head. Aroma has lots of raisins, dark chocolate, esters, light roasted, light vinious. Medium carbonation, dry and very creamy mouthfeel. Light grainy. Flavour has lots of raisins, hazelnuts, dark chocolate, light vinious. Very elegant, soft, sweet, fruity and still fresh. Great.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
Champagne style pop of the plastic cork from this almost seven year old bottle followed by a slow eruption of tan froth. Pours a hazy brown color with tan foam. Great aromas of sweet spicy caramel, port wine, belgian yeast, toffee, dark raisons. Light bodied with average co2. Most excellent toasted caramel, sweet spicy yeast, rich dark raison flavors with a warming finish--aging very gracefully i would say
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
The beer pours a dark amber color with an off-white head. Nice and malty with a rich caramel and toffee character. Lots of rich, ripe, dark fruit notes to it as well as some chocolate. A mild booze aroma as well. The flavor has tons of sweet toffee, caramel, and brown sugar in addition to all the fruit notes. A touch of port flavor and booze.
4.3 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
In short: A exemplary decadent, fruity complex Belgian strong ale.
How: Bottle 750ml. Consumed when almost 5 year of age. Sent to me by after4ever, thanks a lot Tom
The look: Dark mahogany-ruby body topped by a small beige head
In long: Nose is vibrant with dark fruits and fresh herbal notes. This 5 year old beer smells more fresh than most fresh Belgian Strongs I’ve had. Taste is a dense mix of fresh dark fruits, raisins, toffee, tobacco leafs, banana cake, bread crust, wood. The beer is slightly vinous. The alcohol is mostly well hidden except for a little bite in the finish. Body is full, rich, luscious but carbonation is a little too prickly. Amazingly the beer does not feel sweet, something about the wood and tobacco dry the beer out. Somehow even the best American ABTs (and this is one of the better one) never quite get it right like the Belgian ABTs. But I really enjoyed it for what it is, an American take on the style. Kick-ass beer. Totally unexpected masterpiece. It sucks that I only had one bottle. Now that my Imagination is all gone I’m thinking I should become an accountant.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Dark pour. Head does not last. Aroma is deep. Dark fruit, earthy and vinous. Sweet. Flavor is big and rich. Definitely some chocolate in there, but it’s subtle. I think there is a little cherry. It’s sweet, but not cloying. Probably sounds like I’m copying what the last few reviews said, but this is what it tastes like. It’s quite good. I’m kinda sad that I will most likely not sample this again. It has held up well, but I think I should have opened it a year ago.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Dark brown, sweet brown sugar mossy aroma, earthy cherry and oxidized wood. Caramely finish with more toasted wood.
4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Very nice domestic quad. Not overly fruity. Not overly sweet. Not overly spicey. Well rounded and balanced.
4.3 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle. Pours a dark copper with a tan head. Chewy with a nice raisin character vinous and slick with caramel body. Light chocolate malt accents and char. Great brew i thought.
4.3 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
Bottle… C&P’sLYFO Throwdown… This beer rocks!... Deep, dark, roasted caramel-color with a small, fizzy, khaki head. The nose isn’t all that complex; just an ample, malty, caramel bomb... and I love caramel malt. Full-bodied with a velvety mouthfeel and fizzy carbonation. The flavor is all about caramel; and, again, I do love me some caramel. There’s also a vinous suggestion of port. Sweet, but not overly so. Caramely finish with a hint of acidity at the wee end. Bottle shipped all the way to Vero Beach from Seattle by after4ever! * * Video = http://homepage.mac.com/maltajo/RATEBEER/iMovieThe
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