4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20Pours a dark copper with a foamy two finger tan head that lingers. Aroma is of caramel, ripe fruits, raisins, some earthy hops, toffee, and some cinnamon. Taste is of caramel malts, toasted bread, dark fruits, raisins, some earthy pine and citrus, toffee/bread pudding, and some spices including cinnamon and maybe some nutmeg. Has a medium-full body with a creamy, buttery mouthfeel and a semi dry, semi bitter finish. overall, a very tasty and complex winter seasonal.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle [12oz] shared with HogTownHarry, jercraigs & mabel -- c/o j&m. Pours a deep orange-amber with a small diminishing frothy beige head. Aroma of spice and malt, that’s all I get. Flavour of spice and malt along with some leafy hops. Average bodied. It was fine, that’s it.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Draft: Poured a copper orange with a tan off white head. Aroma is fruity with some spice. Taste is sweet with fruit and nice spice tongue feel.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
2013-05-24. Mahogany red brown body, small beige head looks nice. 3++ Pleasant Aroma, modest malt, dark fruit, dusty malt, muted spice. Flavour is similar, dryish malt, dark fruit, light spice. Average bodied palate, modest carbonation. Just okay. Bottle via trade with Ferris
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3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
12oz bottle shared by jercraigs & mabel with me and blankboy. Slightly hazy amber. Taste and aroma are anise roast, dry floral bitterness, eehhhh. Light body and carbonation, dry earthy bitter medium finish. Whatever. Shut up - am drunk.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottle. Pours a reddish brown color with off-white head. Caramel, malty, slight alcohol aromas. Caramel, malty, spice flavors. Tastes like a malty barleywine. Not my favorite Deschutes offering.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
An amber brown beer with an average frothy white head. Aroma is malty with notes of caramel and dried fruits. Flavor is also malty and caramel, hoppy, slightly roasted. Dry finish. Good beer
3.9 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
A nice beer but it didn’t taste like an ale. It was overly malty for an ale but still a nice beer.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Malty toffee aroma. Deep murky copper color. Pretty full bodied. Has a slight berry bitterness to it which is rounded off by the malts - finishing with the alcohol coming through.
4.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
smells of sweet fruit and malts with some brown sugar it pours an extremly dark brown with nice root beer colored head color is a deep red when held up to light mmmm tastes like toffee, malts caramel with a wee bitter after taste coated in brown sugar all around sharp smooth beer
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Pours a clear, dark, amber color with a caramel—colored head that has an orangish hue. Aromas are comprised of an earthiness and brown sugar. Creamy, smooth mouthfeel. Toasty, butterscotch, and toffee flavor with a piney bitterness at the finish. Average to slightly above average.
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