3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Pours a clear and dark brown beer with an offwhite head. The aroma is malt, caramel, ginger and spices. The flavor follows the nose. The palate is sweetness and spices. Overall a beer just above average.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
500ml bottle from LCBO in Thunder Bay, ON pours a dark brown color with a 2 finger white head that leaves some thin spotty lacing on the glass. Aromas are of chocolate, mild spices and aromatic hops. Taste is chocolate malty sweetness with some roasted barley and light hoppy bitterness and some unidentified spices. A very well done brew and highly recommended.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
A clear dark brown almost black colored beer, with a thick beige head. The aroma of some sweet chocolate with ginger , malts and some spices. The taste of liquorice juice with some chocolate, spices with a bitter hops. The aftertaste is sweet of laurel with some long bitter notes.
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Pours copper with a beige head. ARoma is caramel, ginger, liquorish and spice. Flavour is caramel, ginger, liqorish, dry and light grass.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottled. Dark amber coloured. DNse light brown head. Aroma of light roast, sweetness, fruits and some cocoa. Favour of roast, sweetness, spice .Mium bodied. LIght roasted and sweet end.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Tasted this in The Esquire House, Glasgow (JDW) in November 2009. Cask, handpump dispense. Dark ruby in colour with a tight creamy white head. Interesting complex aroma of spices, with nutmeg, cinnamon sandalwood and lavender. Rich creamy mouthfeel and superb lacing. Dark malts give a rich Christmas cake base with molasses, green figs, and damsons. Spicy hop resins gives a slightly bitter aftertaste but this is short lived. Malt returns in the smooth winey finish with alcoholic sweet sherry notes and four spice. A heavy and complex traditional Old Ale - not for a major session though! Interesting history behind this beer.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Dark ruby with a lasting off-white head. Spicy aroma of ginger with a touch of cinnamon and some biscuit. Sweet spicy flavour with biscuit, caramel and brown sugar
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Bottle @ Early Winter Tasting, Odense, 2011. Pours ruby copper with a small white head. Ginger and spices. Caramel and mint. Medium bodied. One dimensional.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle. Dark brown with a small beige head. Aroma of ginger, dark sugars, other hard spices - perhaps cloves, cassia, aniseed. Maybe even some mint. Taste is sweet and deeply but gently spicy. Quite rich but refreshing.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
UPDATED: JUL 26, 2011 Bottle. Slightly chocolatey. Very dark. Light sweet. Light bitter. A bit of spice.
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