2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
355 ml bottle bought through Systembolaget. Pours dark brownish red with a creamy offwhite head that slowly dissipates without leaving much trace on the glass. Smell is sweet and malty with sweet dark bread, caraway, orange zest, cereal, black tea, burnt caramel and hints of grass, wet leaves and unboiled green vegetables. Taste is sweet, tiny bitter, tiny sour, tiny metallic and malty with dark bread, orange zest, burnt caramel, caraway, liquorice root, lemon juice, prunes, grass, dried pineapple and hints of wet leaves and wet soil. Mouthfeel is smooth, tiny tart and light to medium bodied. Finish is tiny sweet, bitter and tiny metallic with dark bread, caraway, liquorice root and orange zest.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Ar: Fruity hops, passIonfruit, pineapple, resin, citric, grapefruit, sweet malts, fruit candy.
Ap: hazy copper/Amber colour, small beige head.
F: grapefruit, pine, citric, no real tropical fruits, rather bitter.
M: Soft bubbles, full bodied considering ABV.
T: Good session beer.
2.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
UPDATED: APR 20, 2012 Bottle. Very cloudy red/amber colour with an off-white head. Fruity aroma with citrus, caramel & toffee. Flavor of citrus, oranges, caramel, lighty toasted bread. Very light carbonation. Light to medium bitterness. A bit like a decent homebrew.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle 50 cl. Pours a hazy reddish amber with an off-white head. Odd herbal aroma - imagine a vitamin jar. Medium-bodied, sweetish caramel, fruity berry-like and a dry and bitter finish. Decent alright if the hop profile is not exactly crisp. 100312
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle at Nya Tröls.
Clear orange-red coloured with a small off-white head.
Fruity aroma of caramel, grass and hops with notes of liquorice and ascorbic acid.
Fruity flavour of hops, caramel and grass.
Hoppy finish.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
(Draught) Pours dark red with a pale nougat coloured head. The aroma holds strawberry jam up front. Rather hoppy with mild pine and citrus. Nice malt toast with a hint of cookie dough. Clean nose. The flavour is light sweet and medium bitter with notes of toast, citrus, pine and mild fruits. The mouthfeel is soft and a bit creamy with a medium carbonation. Citric and piny finish. Near medium bodied.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle (BB 2012-01-03).
Muddy reddish brown with a very short and hard to build slightly yellowed head.
Slightly roasted caramel aroma with some acidity, chocolate, dark bread, grapefruit and some flowers.
Taste is also a bit acidic ashy sour with with some roasty caramel, grapefruit, orange zest, dry red berries (lingon?), coffee grounds and a quite hefty and long dry piney bitterness.
Medium body with soft tickling bubbles.
Too bad I realized just now it was as old as it was.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Draft @ SBWF2011. Pours a reddish brown color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty caramel aroma with hoppy grapefruit hints. Fruity malty hoppy grapefruit flavor with hints of caramel. Has a fruity malty hoppy bitter caramel finish.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle thx to Markus cons 2011-10-10 Göteborg
AR: tropical fruits, curry, roasted malt, grape fruit
AP: ruby colored body, 1 cm thight big bubbly frothy cream beige head
F: apricot, grape fruit bitteness, mango chutney, citrus punch, fruity and bitter finish, wee bubbly thickling carbonation, medium sweet full body
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Sample at SBWF 2011.
Hazy reddish/brown with a small head. The aroma was hoppy with fruit and some hay and malt. The taste was about the same, quite good.
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