4.6 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 19/20
Bomber, huge thanks to beddachedda for this amazing tick. Next year, me arse will be at Eclipse Day, mark my words. Phenomenal aroma of all kinds of iced and -bald amazingness. Huge chocolate, coffee, roast, sweet toffee, amazing whiskey, dark fruit, and oak. The flavor is great too. Very sweet, but stops just short of being too much so. Smooth balanced malt base of caramel, toffee, candied dates, chocolate, oak, and Elijah. Damn this is good. Fairly full-bodied and very slick on the mouthfeel with lower carbonation. Crazy, crazy good beer. One of the best Eclipses - and beers - I’ve ever ticked.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
bottle thanks dan!! did as part of the 2011 horizontal. pours very dark brown minimal head. not much barrel on the aroma found this one middle of the road and a little sweeter then others
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle #61 thanks to billshmeinke. Pours with a tan head that lasts decently well over a black hued body that is glass coating. Aromas are huge: brandy soaked dark fruits, tannin, pine, burnt brown sugar, maple, wood, vanillin, light smoke and molasses. Flavors of pine, tannin and bitterness. Intense flavors, smoke and dark chocolate. Tastes "rare" more than anything. Mocha and bitterness. Medium carbonation, very tannic with a fuller body. Tannins dry the mouth out quite a bit.
Interesting and good overall, but no where near the best of the Eclipse Series.
4.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
Bottle shared by Maltzilla at the pre-Huny tasting. Dark brown pour with no head. Coco puff nose. All kinds of caramel, dark roasted malts, rich chocolate, and mellow bourbon. Thick and juicy with good balance. Nice lacing.
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Diego, you are the effin man my friend! Black pour, tan head. Aroma of fudge, light bourbon, roast, some ash and good chocolate notes. Flavor is sweet and rich with the bourbon notes taking a background to the roast, cocoa, light coffee. Alcohol not even noticeable at all to speak of.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Very sweet, thick and viscous with all sorts of dark notes-Chocolate, roasted. The caramelised notes almost take on a fruity character if I had to call it something. Didn’t really get any Single barrel treatment coming through as I think they were overpowered by all the rest that was going on in this beer. Thanks for busting this one out Diego
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
22oz bottle, courtesy of our friends at 50/50. Popped at Sour Sunday. Pours an oily, dark chocolate-brown color; thin, light-tan head. Bitter chocolate and softly charred barrel in the aroma; restrained alcohol; nothing rough here. Layers of oily, dense and lightly charred dark chocolate; an oily maltiness permeates; slick, viscous imperial stout with a core, delicious roasted maltiness. Clean, tempered alcoholic warmth (this seemed more reserved, particularly barrel-wise, than many of the other versions I’ve sampled; more of a bitter chocolate and stern core warmth than layers of vanilla and bourbon, etc.). Really nicely handled overall, with soft edges. Review written with my elbows tucked in, so excuse the mess. Long finish, showing charred nuttiness and bitter chocolate.
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