3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Sampled at DLD2010. Thanks to the awesome person that brought this. Dark brown pour with tan head. Aroma of apples, booze, light saltiness. Wood and smoke apparent. Flavor is slick, boozy apple, chocolate, salt, oak, wood, kind of weird funkiness. Tart too. Slick mouthfeel. Pretty cool to try this one.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Brown pour with a thin head and lace. BB, apple, chocolate. Sour apple, light chocolate flavor. Foamy and thin. A very good beer.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Thanks to whoever supplied this at DLD 2010. Pours hazy reddish brown with small off-white head. Aromas of caramel, brown sugar, brandy, and a bit of yeast. Flavor of brandy, caramel, brown sugar, light malts, and finishes sour. The acidity didn’t really work for me. Glad to have tried it though.
3.9 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle: Poured a deep cloudy brown color ale with a super huge dirty brown color head with great retention and super good lacing. Aroma of funky yeast ester with some rich apple brandy notes is quite interesting. Taste is also a very nice mix between some light funky notes with light Brett touch with some subtle tart notes that are mix with some rich sweet malt with light vinous apple brandy notes in the finish. Very complex and somewhat far from the original porter recipe. Body is quite full with limited filtration and great carbonation with no apparent alcohol. Nicely done and outside of the standard brewing norms with some great complexity which makes me say that I can’t even pick-up all of the complexity.
3.5 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle shared by alexsdad06. Poured a dark reddish brown color with a large frothy light brown head that mostly lasted with excellent lacing. Moderate toasted malt, fruit and smoke wood aroma. Medium body with a smooth texture and flat carbonation. Medium to heavy toasted malt, sweet fruit and wood flavor with a medium to heavy sweet finish of moderate duration. My expectations where not met by an unbalanced beer.
1.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 2/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 4/20
I was salivating at the chance to try this bottle from, "hannont" but then I tried it and... Colour... dark garnet with a thick off white head. Nose... tart and rather like a sour beer. Palate.... WTF!! Something’s wrong here!! Tastes like what I would imagine Fire Chief would taste like with apple puree added to it! Bleh!! Yuck!!! Eeeeeew!!!!
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle shared by Josh. Thanks! Pours clear brown with tan head. Aroma is wood, sour apple, caramel, and brown sugar. Medium mouthfeel. Flavor follows the nose and has a sour taste dry finish to it. I have found that with the other SFTO beer I tried. Its pretty tasty.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
RBWG 2010. Pours dark brown with tan head. Aromas of brandy, lightly roasted malts and chocolate. Flavors of brandy, caramel, smoke, apples and some chocolate. Medium body with lively carbonation.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Batch 1. Poured a brown color with a beige head. Apples and vanilla with a sweet roasted malt. Light alcohol nose. Sweet roasted malt flavor. Apple finish. Lively CO2 on the tongue. Light side of a medium body.
4.3 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle, thanks to dchamela. Aroma full of caramel and a slight big of fruitiness. Flavor is more caramel apple. Delicious.
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