3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Tap (CWAF2012, Fri)
Simple smoky aroma, some milky grains too. Full smooth palate, sweetish, and plenty of biting smokiness. A touch drying, a little phenolic. Full flavoured for 4%, but still a bit watery.
1.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 2/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 4/20
Chemical orange with heavy collar. Penetrating smell of smoked bacon. Dry taste of charcoal with bitter after-taste. Funny beer but not my style, and after a while the taste gets really annoying. Just too much of it.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Pours a clear and amber beer with a white head. The aroma is malt, smoke and some caramel. The flavor follows the nose. The palate is sweetness with smoke. Overall this beer is below average.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Pours golden with a large white head. Aroma is malt, bacon and fruity notes. Flavour is malt, smoke, dry and fruity notes.
4.6 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 17/20
33 cl. Bottle @ home / purchased @ Hopduvel: A: golden sun / orange with a huge fluffy white head / S: bitter floral hops (very full & very lovely), slight sweet cheese, fruits & very light smoke / T: woody smoke, cheese, smoked grains, flowers, very floral bitterness, lingering in the finish, slight citrus sweetness / B: fizzy, light, touch grainy, lovely, very original & delicious (bottled on 22-Jun-2011)
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle from Nina’s. I chilled this a little in a vain attempt to calm it down a little. Pours a cloudy light golden brown colour with a huge white head. Aroma of smoked ham, caramel and grassy hops. Quite bitter with similar smoky flavours. Heavy carbonation and a full mouth-feel given the 4% abv. Not bad.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Clear light golden, huge huge white head. Impossible to poor this in one attempt! Very smoky aroma with a lot of hops as well. Taste is smoke, hops, ash. Good carbo, bit dry and bitter.
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
On tap at Bangers and Lace. Pours a clear golden orange with a near white head that dissipates nearly completely. Aroma has a nice light smokiness with a bit of backing light grapefruit. Flavor also begins with a nice smoke note with backing grain and light fruit.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
chiara buona schiuma discreta persistenza naso leggermente affucato malto lieve non molto amara
3.3 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle at home in London. Pours clear gold with an explosive white head. You know the type of head I mean, you pour and it’s instantly foam and just keeps growing, and growing, and growing. So that’s how it is. Once this foam subsides I’m greeted with a classic, smokey aroma of ham and minerals. Taste is a little bit of a let-down. It’s lightly sweet with some muted malt character. None of that brown sugar ham I was expecting. Some earthy bitterness. Light bodied with explosive carbonation in the mouth. Some more decent smoke comes through in the finish, some grains and earth. Something is obviously sub-optimal here, but the aroma alone keeps it pretty decent.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
33 cl. bottle. Muddy-orange colour with a huge white head that very slow collapses to a fat cap. Fruity and smoky aroma with notes of orange, apricots and hints of ham and bacon. Light sweet, slightly smoky taste with notes of citrus, grapefruit and dried apricots. Medium body with a thin texture Bitter finish with a long duration. I am impressed by this beer, only 4 % abv. still so tasty!
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