 Skyview (2657), Papoose Jct., Minnesota, USA
Apr 29, 2008 On draught as guest beer at Dark Lord Days 2008. Pours a semi-clear coppery amber brew with a creamy beige head that has some good retention and spotty lacing. Aroma of caramel malt, some vanilla, raisin a touch of brown sugar and light spice. Taste is medium bodied, light carbonation with flavors of caramel malt, yeast, a touch of brown sugar and raisins with apples. Finish is semi-sweet with some raisin aftertaste at first and then a mild bitterness.
bb (1965), Martinez, California, USA
Apr 25, 2008 Draft. Bronze beer with a dark cream colored head. Low malt, caramel, light spice, dark fruit aroma. Caramel/toffee flavor with light yeast and light playdough components. medium bodied. Lingering malt, playdough, yeast, and raisin.
sliffy (1930), Columbus, Ohio, USA
May 8, 2008 DLD ’08: With the Compunction mystery finally solved... On cask: Pours a dark brown with an off white head. Aroma, dark fruits, caramel, notably prunes. Flavor, dark fruits, sweet malts, brown sugar, almost rich, some slight citrus, and some yeast.
Glouglouburp (1876), Montreal, Quebec, Canada
May 27, 2008 In short: Caramel and juicy and fruits abound in this sweet Belgian Ale. Good beer.
How: Tap at Dark-Lord-Day 2008
The look: Clear amber body with a long-lasting medium beige head
In long: Rather sweet beer with rich fruity caramel covering a fruit salad. A nice kind-of-oak flavour nicely complements the complex fruity notes of raisins, prunes and more. Carbonation is very lively, even a bit too aggressive. Short finish. I would have like something to dry it out a bit (hops, dusty yeast, something…) cause this could have been excellent. Very good nonetheless. They had the tap lines mixed-up at DLD 08 and for about two hours this was served to people ordering the Russian River Compunction. This Firestone Dubbel is a good beer but really not what I was expecting from the Compunction. I was relieved when I heard that this beer wasn’t the Compunction and the real Compunction was being served. I haven’t gone from hopeful to disappointed to hopeful again so quickly since the day my girlfriend told me “I think you friend Annie is hot, not that I wanna do a threesome with her, although maybe in the right circumstances…”.
JohnC (1718), Mission Viejo, California, USA
Jul 19, 2008 Thanks to ?moniesocal? for bringing this to Dr. Bill’s
Hazy brown w/ a nice head, very nice fruity aroma w/ a complex flavor that I caught some plum, date and other fruit in
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