4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 16/20
750 ml bottle via trade with smith4498, thanks Jason. Poured a murky chocolate brown body with a large foamy light beige head. Aroma is very much like a barley wine, toffee, caramel, barrel aged molasses, vanilla extract, slight alcohol. Fuller carbonation with softer carbonation, a lingering aftertaste with a touch of bitterness and slight alcohol warming. Flavor of caramel, toffee, vanilla extract, alcohol, wax, rotting fruit, sweet. This is one good ass beer, Viva La CCB!!!
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Rich heavy pour. Aroma is sweet, lots of caramel malts ans fruit syrup sweetness and a light hop aspect. Flavor is very similar. Light citrus hops with loots of sweetness and some alcohol. Some raisin and caramel on the finish.
3.4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle with Pat, Matt, and some other chill heads. Pours murky purple brown color. Aromas of plum, grapes, roasty mollasses, candy sugar, pine. Hoppy amber notes up front followed by a sticky, grape filled, belgian ale. Some faint wood, maybe cedar?
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
UPDATED: MAY 16, 2012 Bottle with Vinny, Matt Capone, and others. Pours hazy amber with a tan, fuzzy ring of lacy head. Aroma of raisins, cherry, biscuity malts, maple syrup, and slight dry wood. Tastes like a raisiny, cherry bourbon. Slightly sour and boozy in the finish. Decent beer, but could benefit from some restraint.
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2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 10/20
bottle. pour is amber and no head very flat. had no carbination which was a bummer. very malty sweet with nice hop
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle at the TURD tasting. Pours amber brown with a beige head. Sweet and toasty malty aroma with floral hops. The flavor has toffee and caramel sweetness, toasted malts, and floral hops. Average.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle shared at Max’s for the turd tasting. Pours an amber body with small head. This beer seems a bit unbalanced and all over. Notes of grass, flowers, dark fruits, honey, wood and hops. Still not a bad beer but could benefit from a bit of refining.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Garnet with a white head. Vegetal, dark fruits, brown sugar, lots of sweetness. sweet cream finish, ugh.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle at MaxxDaddy’s tasting. Pours dark amber brown. Nose/taste of toffee, cherry wood, bready malt, caramel and orange peel. Medium body.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle shared at the NY Meet the TURD tasting; thanks yobdoog! Pours a dark amber with creamy beige head. Aroma is fairly one-dimensional of butterscotch. Boozy with lots of butterscotch. Cloying and syrupy. Apparently Imperial Amber = barley wine to induce diabetes.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
Dark brown pour with red tint. Earthy and grassy hop tones and malty sweetness. Barleywine?
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