3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle 33cl. @ DOE Tasting, Fox & Hounds, Holstebro.
Clear dark brown color with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, hay, roasted, cramel, coffee, moderate to heavy hoppy, graoefruit, moderate yeasty, Belgium yeast. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft, finish feel is light alcoholic. [20100126]
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottled. A very dark red-brown beer with a nice, but collapsing brown head. The aroma alcohol, berries, roastes malt, and a bit of iodine. The flavor is very sweet with strong notes of roasted malt as well as medium notes of cocoa beans, wood, iodine, and alcohol, leading to a dry roasted finish.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle 33 cl. Pours a dark reddish brown with a beige head. Aroma of roasted malts and citrusy hops. Solid body, lots of roasted malts and vanilla, fruit and spicy hops with quite some malt bitterness. Fruity and spicy. Lovely. 161209
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
33 cL bottle. Pours dark brown with a redish glare and huge tan head. Aroma is roasted malt and solid hoppy. Dark chocolate and hoppy fruity flavoured. Light spiced note. Ends dry and spiced. Smooth roasted and bitter into a dry and lingering slight spiced finish.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Cask@SBWF2009. Rubyish black colour, small brown head. Aroma is grass, fruits, roast and also some mild notes of earth. Flavour is grass, fruits, some floral notes as well as mild berries. Also some smoked notes lurking in the background.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask at Stockholm Beer Festival. Cloudy very dark brown. Licorice aroma. Mid-sweet with clean, rounded mouthfeel and medium body. Tarry licorice aroma - not much Belgian style about this Black Belgian Double IPA. Smoky, tarry and concetrated. Salty finish with San Diego style bitterness. Crazy BrewDog stuff as ever.
4.5 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
Cask at Stockholm Beer and Whisky 2009.
Pitch black coloured with a medium sized bieg head.
Roasted and hoppy aroma of dark chocolate and pine needles.
Roasted and hoppy flavour of pine needles, dark chocolate, grass, liquorice and grape fruits.
Dry roasted and hoppy finish.
Extreme, but fantastic.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle, 8.6%. Good hop aroma, slightly grassy, a little roasted barley. Almost black colour, red shine. Small stable light brown head. The flavour starts off with a good roasted note with a little barley bitterness. Then comes a good grassy hop flavour. Good.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Date: December 11, 2009
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, ORF
Appearance: clear dark brown, frothy beige head
Aroma: sweet dark roasted aroma, caramel sweetness, lots of dark roast, sweetness brings out a nice chocolate
Flavor: sweet caramel and chocolate flavor, lots of roasted, balancing earthyness, long bitter finish
Date: January 01, 2010
Mode: bottle
Words: Brusin Ales
Aroma: picking up a nice citrus character in the aroma along with the big roasted character
Flavor: flavor is strong roast with lots of bitter hops, citrus comes in with the caramel sweetness
Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 13/20
Rating: 3.3/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **+ /4
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle at Ørsted, Copenhagen
The color is almost black. The aroma mixes roasted malt and alpine cheese. Good chocolate flavor, good body, roasted malts; strong bitterness. Not much complexity, but good balance and power.
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