3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Small serving during 11-30-07 tasting at the Lex-Larp Cellars as I joined joet and the Twin Cities crew. Thanks to Skyview for picking up a growler of this stuff. Nice, sweet, fruity, floral aroma of plums and cherries. Pours a hazy brown with a small amount of tan head. Very sweet, sugary, fruity flavors, including tangerine. Medium body. The growler had been opened a few days before. There was still some carbonation, but it was more flat than would have been ideal, making it hard for me to judge the palate effects in particular. Keep that in mind when looking at my rating and review.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
A rare treat from Skyview. Thanks! Vanilla, caramel malts, and some fruitiness. Nice and complex. Served a little cold. Clean palate, but very complex. Unique and quite good!
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
UPDATED: OCT 11, 2008 Another rare one from Skyview. From a growler. Dark brown and there is a thick, but short cream colored head on it. The aroma comes out as it warms, and has sweet, dark fruit and malt. Sweet flavor with malt and yeast, as well as port, plums, cherry, and some oak. Rich, thick palate.
--from a bottle, not as good. it tasted like a bock.
4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
I mean seriously... who does Skyview kill to get growlers of this stuff?! Dark brown color with a thin head. Slight roasty aroma. Sweet malt and caramel taste with some left over sugars. A slightly bitter finish, along with some nutiness. Very nice!
4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
On tap at the Great Dane Hilldale. A nice lookin deep brown beer with a hefty head with a good amount of cascading bubbles (without nitrogen!). Tastes of nuts and fruit,-very drinkable (how does Kirby do it?). Not a lot in the breadth of flavor though. Not very true to style, but a very fine beer nonetheless. Hat’s off to Kirby to try this elusvie style!
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
During a sneek preview - sampled at the brewery, fresh, directly from the aging tank just before the brewery started kegging this new brew. Pours an opaque dark cola brown brew with a decent off-white head that has excellent retention. The lacing is spotty at first but when the brew comes closer to proper serving temperature, the lacing sticks to the glass real well. Aroma of dark roasted black malt, some dark chocolate character, candi sugar and sweet molasses. Taste is full bodied, very little carbonation with flavors of dark roasted malt, candi sugar and some sweet toffee. Finish is extremely smooth, creamy with a sweet dark malt and chocolate aftertaste. Awesome! Brewery informed me that only 30 barrels were made and will be on draught only in Madison and a couple of Milwaukee accounts during November ’07.
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