4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
750 ml. bottle- Pours hazy dark ruby red with a dense creamy tan head. The aroma is tart and acidic, dark fruits, brown sugar and spicy. The taste is malty, brown sugar, tart and tangy, caramel. Body is full, carbonation is medium high, finish lingers long after the swallow. Overall this is good, massively complex, I liked it.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle shared by cptnspeed1...thanks Brad! - Pours ruby brown with a thin tan head. Lightly sour caramel on the nose, a sharp booziness, light bread, and butterscotch. Taste is the same, with some nutty caramel and light yeasty bread. Smooth and slick, with nice carbonation.
3.7 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Lots of cocoa and toast on the nose, raisins, dates, figs and nutmeg, pepper. Biting burnt taste up front, but lots of raisin on the finish. A little sweet, a lot malty.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle. The color is deep red, dark for style, beige colored head. The smell is fruit, tart, malts, pie, cherry, vinegar, and wine like. The taste is definite tart, malts, fruity, pie like, and interesting.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Deep brown in color with a large beige head. Aroma is of chocolate, leather, prune, raisin, and caramel with a light sour cherry smell. Taste is tart cherry, earth, leather, chocolate, leaves and roasted malts.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
bottled, pours a dark amber color with creamy foam, sour bready fruit and malt aroma, flavors of malty bread and prune danish
1.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 1/10 PALATE 1/5 OVERALL 1/20
Very nice dark brownish red appearance. Looks like very dark wine. Smells of plum and alcohol. Tastes of raisin, burned bread. Slightly watery but a full, complex character.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
750 ml bottle 10/2/12 (Binny’s Downers Grove)-42° in English pint-Pours a dark brown with a big tight off white head. Aroma of malt, toffee, cocoa, and brown sugar. Taste of the same with a little malt and hops. This medium to full bodied brew is well balanced and goes down easy.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Very interesting, highly complex brew. There are a lot of different layers going on: sour apple cider, alcohol, toasted caramel malts, toffee sweetness. It is an onslaught of flavors but they are difficult to perceive.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Poured from a 750 ml bottle. The aroma is banana, stone fruits, raisin, hot alcohol notes. The flavor is chocolate, toffee, fruity, tart, wine notes, very rich. This may have some brettanomyces. Very interesting, I enjoyed the rustic character of this.
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