4.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20 SudsMcDuff (3361) - .....Manchester United.........., USA - JAN 4, 2012
Got as part of my Xmas gift from MA, thanks mommy! .. . Pours a deep amber maple .. medium foam, awesome lacing for such a high grav .. . fantastic whiffs of scotch and wood smoke, like a santa hat that has sat on top of a chimney .. . super smooth, and something i would drink a case of EasY!! if not for the steep price of almost $15 a bottle .. . definitely a case of peaty than smokey , but i fuckin dug it!!! . . . . Hmm.. That seems to be all you can say. When you were in that coma, did you feel your brain getting damaged?
4.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20 GBZ59 (314) - BARCELONA (Catalonia), SPAIN - MAY 28, 2012
Botella de 330ml. Copa de Vino. Saboreada en may´12. Color ámbar muy oscuro con espuma bronceada. Corona cremosa y persistente. El perfil aromático muestra maltas torrefactas dulces con trazos de frutos oscuros y toffee. Café dulce al primer sorbo seguido por un despiadado amargor seco que desborda los toques afrutados. Notas de brandy de crianza redondean un “calurososo” retrogusto. ¡Cuidado con el cigarrillo! Cuerpo pleno e intenso y carbonatación moderada.
330ml bottle. Oversized glass. Enjoyed on may´12. Very dark amber color. Tan colored head, lasting & creamy crown. Aromatic profile shows sweet roasted malts with hints of dark fruits & toffee notes. Sweet coffee at first sip, hints of plum. Ruthless dry bitter explosion overwhelms fruit flavor. Wood aged brandy notes round a hot aftertaste. Watch up your cigarette!! Full body, soft carbonation.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20 tool2scream (174) - San Diego, California, USA - MAY 23, 2012
This beer is one of the most orderly complex beers I’ve ever tried. The complexity is huge, and it just moves you through wonderful stages, giving you the full array of flavors the brewers were going for. I honestly find this to be one of the better beers I’ve tried in quite some time in terms of craft and execution. Whether you like it or not will largely depend on your palate and what you prefer, not the beer. The aroma is just as if you’d popped open a bottle of single-malt scotch. The flavors come in so nicely and move you from stage-to-stage. It opens with sweet, sticky barleywine malts with big flavors of raw sugar and bread. Then it moves into big Laphroig whiskey, with huge flavors of smoke and peat. From there, you get an earthy tone, where you taste a mossy, grassy quality from the hops and it ends with a smoke-laden hop character that builds and gets more astringent as it lingers. Holy cow. If you let it linger long enough, it turns back into "Sugar in the Raw." So much going on in this beer and it keeps evolving on you. Big props.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20 Kingi (26) - - MAY 12, 2012
Very strong aroma and taste, but not exactly tempting. A beer version of whiskey.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20 zacgillbanks (194) - Tyne & Wear, ENGLAND - MAY 11, 2012
Bottle from The Bottle in York. A Dark brown beer with smoky, leather, malt and slight hoppy flavours whisky, oak and more smoke on the finish.
4.9 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 20/20 Jump4HOPS (1) - Indiana, USA - MAY 8, 2012 does not count
I loved this beer..After taking a drink I had the urge to bite into a smoked flank of lamb. That said, it has a very smoky aftertaste. This smoky flavor is somewhat balanced by a slightly sweet taste. In the brewing video, they said they used shortbread cookies. In short, it was unlike any beer I have ever tasted, a collaborative beer warrants a distinct taste and Bitch Please offers you that.
3.5 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20 Ktwse (225) - SWEDEN - MAY 3, 2012
Wow... Well, without having read up about it, we picked out the Laphroig. Yes, it's that obvious... For better or worse. Pours a deep dark reddish brown with minimal tan head. Nose is dominated by smoky, light single-malt (i.e. Laphroig). Actually, can't make out anything else... Taste is a bit more balanced. The whisky is still dominant, especially in the long finish, but at least you get some bready malt, a hint of full hops in the start. Body is rich and full, creamy yet with a bitter touch. If you like Laphroig, that will cerrainly help... 33cl is too much, though.
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3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20 Errl (335) - Plano, Texas, USA - APR 22, 2012
12oz Bottle- Batch#96) Pour is a dark amber with an off white head..Nose is vanilla, wood, chared wet wood, Bandaid, peat...Taste is wet wood, chewy malts, band aid, smoke, scotch..Palate is warm with wood lingering..
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20 JoeM500 (1894) - Crown Point, Indiana, USA - APR 22, 2012
Bottle. Smoldering Campfire/burning grasspile aroma at first, but gives way to still-peaty but strange sweet smell. Foolishly, I see now that there was some sort of fudge added and that seems to be the off aroma and off flavor that i didn’t like. Peaty malt stayed throughout and some mish/mash of flavors appeared in the middle as it warmed. Some orange-chocolate notes and some hints of grassy bitterness. The whiskey barrel notes led me to expect strong alcohol at the finish but it was masked nicely- even at 11%+. Really everything I’ve come to expect from Brewdog, and nothing I’d expect from Three Floyds.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20 michael-pollack (4873) - King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, USA - APR 21, 2012
330ml Bottle: Got in trade from stobbe74; THANKS Soeren! Aroma of smoke, peat, malt, plastic, and leather. Poured deep amber/brown in color with a medium-sized, creamy, dense, rocky, tan head that lasted throughout. Clear. Sparkling. Very good lacing. Flavor is light to medium sweet and slightly bitter. Tastes of malt, smoke, smoked meat, smoked wood, slight peat, slight iodine, and some plastic. Medium body. Dry texture. Average carbonation. Malt, smoke, smoked meat, plastic, slight peat finish is slightly sweet and dry. 11.5%ABV is completely hidden throughout.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20 phaleslu (3534) - Saint Louis, Missouri, USA - APR 11, 2012
Bottle via trade- pretty sure this was from one of many with michael-pollack, so thanks again, Pollack! If not, thanks to whoever I forgot. Pours a deep, deep, but clear amber with an initially inch-thick off-white head that settles into a small uneven one that leaves a good deal of lace in the glass. Big peat out of the aroma, with caramel, charred oak, apples, fruitcake, and earth. Lots of peat and booze heat. Flavor doesn’t pack quite the same punch, but there’s a lot of peat and charred oak, especially late, caramel, wet grass and leaves, apples, brown sugar, and dates. Body seems a little thin initially but seems to get maltier as it warms. Modest carbonation and a peaty mouthfeel. Pretty interesting beer. Liked this a lot.
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