3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
750 ml caged and corked bottle, Batch 2011-2, best by 4-2012. Served in a chalice, the beer pours a reddish/brown color with a half inch light tan head. Head retention and lacing are both good. Aroma is nice, it smells like dark fruit, peppery spice, cinnamon, cloves, molasses and some caramel. The brew tastes mostly just like the aroma, it tastes like dark fruit (raisins, grapes), cinnamon, peppery spice, bready and caramel malt, candy sugar, cloves, and molasses. Mouthfeel/body is medium, it’s a bit slick and creamy with moderate/high carbonation. I think it’s a good overall brew, I’d certainly buy it again. $9.99 a bottle.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Pours dark brown/red. Aroma is fig, caramel, clove and yeast. Taste is spicy with clove and cinnamon coming through giving way to plum/fig/raisin at the end. . Palate is medium and chalky with a spicy dry finish.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
S: Interesting: toffee sweetness, coffee bitterness - all toasted goodness
A: Very dark brown, ruby when held up in the light. Full frothy head that dissipates slowly
T: Follows the nose - very spicy and well balanced
P: Medium body with fizzy carbonation
O: Great intersting
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Deep amber with a medium tan head. Aroma of molasses, spices, candi sugar, yeast and caramel. Taste was nice and spicy with molasses, dark fruit, fruity yeast and candi sugar. Decent dubbel.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle. Pours dark amber and hazy with a tight soapy khaki head that settles to a thin film and some spotty lacing. Aroma has a sweet candied sugar scent with some nice spice scents as well it has a good yeast in the finish. Taste has yeast and spice with the sweetness and roasted malt showing in the finish with anise and raisin and a faint coffee finish. Palate is medium and chalky with a spicy dry finish. Very enjoyable!
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Will pour a five+ finger cream head that fades slowly and leaving no lace. Almost clear brown/amber color, some yeast left in bottle. Good carbonation and medium bodied. Slight molasses nose, and flavor is molasses, caramel and bready. Higher ABV is hidden. Batch 2011-1 best by Apr 2012, $9.99 for a caged & corked 750ml bottle from Julio’s Liquors Westborough, Ma.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
750ml bottle from letspour.com. Deep red-brown pour. Aroma is belgian yeast and spice. Tastes are cocoa, yeast, brown sugar, sweet candy malts, vegetal and pumpkin spice. Finishes lightly dry. Decent sipper.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Dark amber color, medium sized head. Unique aroma, lots of celery salt comes through at first but fades as the beer opens up. There are some dark cherry aromas as well. Dry, peppery yeast esters with some subtle cocoa and a little cinnamon spice in the finish. Solid stuff.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Pour out of 750 mL bottle, thanks to Jay for the pour! Pour is orange red with white head, aroma has notes of big cinnamon, anise, big caramel and nutty notes, touch of pepper, clove notes. Taste is cinnamon, slight anise, hints of caramel, toffee and nuts, earth, some slight metallic notes, finishing fairly cinnamon forward. Interesting, but so much cinnamon.
3.5 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
750ml bottle poured into a snifter. Pours a dark ruby color with about a finger of rapidly diminishing head. Aroma of caramel with clove and baking spices. I get just a small hint of banana. Taste is light sweet. Caramel with some clove and spices. Medium bodied with sticky yet somewhat thin texture. Lively carbonation and a long finish. Overall, not bad. Nothing to seek out but I’ll enjoy this one.
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