 kujo9 (1042), North Ridgeville, Ohio, USA
Jan 11, 2008
12 zo bottle 12/14/07: Aged coppery brown body w/ reddish highlights w/ a thin, but lasting off white head. Malty! Bready, toasty, and has hints of chocolate. Freshly crushed malt aroma. Clean w/ a hint of alcohol. Clean flavor... Sweet malty, lightly raisiny, bready and toasty with a semi sweet finish. Clean, malty aftertaste. Warming m/f, lighter medium carbonation, slightly biting, but smooth after it warms. Fuller body. Very nice beer! Clean, malty, and well made.
RollinHard (480), Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Jul 3, 2008 Pours a dark reddish brown with a khaki colored head that fades to a small ring fairly quick. Aroma offers quite a bit with a predominantly caramel and toasty malt, slight raspberry, pear, sherry, wood, toffee, and something unmistakably German (the yeast?). Tastes sweet and malt driven with caramel toast, coffee, fruit-filled chocolate, slight dark fruit presence and the hops add subtle (for the region) bitterness making the finish earthy and flavorful. Medium bodied, but creamy and full feeling, it’s nice to have a good beer from this brewer again as the Leviathan and Poseidon were not to my liking. I like this.
waolsen (906), Littleton, Colorado, USA
Jul 2, 2008 2008 bottle. Thanks G man. dark pour with thin lasting head. nice hoppy aroma with dark fruit, chocolate, rich malts and coffee. medium body. easy to drink. very flavorful. slightly sour. coffee, chocolate, nice fruit and well hopped. very enjoyable.
pint_size (910), Austin, Texas, USA
Jun 1, 2008 5-4-08 bottle shared at tasting
Brown pour. Smell is roasted malt. Flavor is bitter and strange alcohol. Palate is average. Overall, ehh.
blankboy (2464), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
May 26, 2008 My bottle (22oz) shared at ’Rudolf’s May 2008 Tasting’ -- courtesy of gunhaver. Pour a very deep ruby with a large diminishing foamy tan head. Aroma’s roasty and a little smoky along with floral hops, dark fruit, a hint of chocolate and light sourness. Flavour’s malty, slightly roasty with some nuts, dark fruit and floral hops. This is oak aged done right, everything is well balanced. Dry finish. Medium bodied. A very good version of the style, I really enjoyed this.
KingpinIPA (789), Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
May 25, 2008 Brownish color. Smell of caramel, bread, malt and fruit, Taste of caramel, fruit, malt and candy raisins.
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