 doubleo (626), San Diego, California, USA
May 5, 2008
On-tap at O’Brien’s a few weeks back. Smells malty sweet and slightly sour, like sour mash. Looks clearish red/brown, fluffy offwhite head, some lace. Tastes malty sweet, oatmeal, chocolatey but lighter than a stout. There is also a bit of booze flavor on the finish. Smooth, medium body with mellow carb. Tastey and better than Saucerful of Merkin for sure.
pint_size (910), Austin, Texas, USA
May 28, 2008 4-26-08 tap at DLD ’08 (one of the huge mixups of DLD ’08)
Amber brown in color with a super thin beige head. Tart and fruity flavor. Smell is light fruit. A hint on the creamy carbonated side. Drinkable. Not bad but the confusion between this and RR Compunction threw me off.
Glouglouburp (1829), 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…”.
BrianK (45), New Jersey, USA
May 8, 2008 This was a nice change of pace at DLD. Had a nice sweet fruitiness to it. It was also on the dry side. I’d drink this one again.
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.
msante79 (159), Illinois, USA
May 8, 2008 Sampled at DLD 08. Pours dark amber with thick tan head. Aroma is malt, raisens and brown suger. Flavor is sweet malt, brown suger, some figs or raisens and some chocolate. Wish I would have had the Russion River stuff but this wasn’t to bad.
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