3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
On tap @ Bull and Bush poured a cloudy dark brown with a small lasting tan head. Aromas of mollasses, figs, dates, spice, milk chocolate and light vanilla. Palate was medium bodied and smooth. Flavors of cocoa, figs, dates, light molasses, spice, vanilla and a hint of coffee with a smooth malty bittersweet finish.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
12th October 2008
On tap at the brewpub. Cloudy chocolate brown beer. Low carbonation. A little fruity sourness at the start and then smooth chocolate malt with traces of banana. Dry and slightly sour finish.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
On tap at the brewpub. Pours dark reddish brown with a thick off-white head. Lots of chocolate raisins. This tastes like an Abbey Ale. It has a very nice medium thickness to the body. The flavor is sweet up front. It’s slightly acrid, similar to sulpher from match heads. Unique.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
smokey nose with a great maltiness that comes out nutty. dark brown red body with a nice grey lasting head. meaty, bloody, nutty, rusty flavors that i like. a floral sweetness is in the finish with a touch of chocolate coming up in this.
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3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Draft at the brewery. Mostly clear dark tawny brown body with a dark tan head. Nose is sweet dates, nutty raisin bread, and plum. Slick and oily texture, sweet raisin bread flavor is dominant. Little to no real yeast character, making it almost seem like a plum flavored old ale with a strange clove and berry flavor.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
draft- falling rock: pours an impressive opaque, shall we say... brown with a half inch thick orange/tan head. musty and raisin-like nose with sharp chocolate accents. malty flavors showing notes of raisin, chocolate, figs, and grapes. mouthfeel on the watery side and there’s a significant bitterness riding behind it all. the yeast gives it a nice belgian bubblegumness....quite chocolatey also...in a sharp raisinette kind of way...a little boozish at times as Well...i think the watery texture and the losing fight for complexity stanford in the way of being a winner here. that being said, its not a bad try, really.
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