 sayravai (3000), Helsinki, Finland
May 21, 2008
(Bottled, 2007 vintage) Slightly hazy, deep ruby red with a smallish, tanned head, and lots of floating yeast. Lots of vinous, slightly sweet malt with dried fruit. Strongly toffee-malty, mildly roasty, very grainy flavor with some vinous berries. Quite full-bodied and thick palate with lowish carbonation. A full and thick barley wine with not too much sweetness, and less hops than expected.
nqualls (15), Tennessee, USA
Jul 20, 2008 Bought this beer at the Frugal MacDoogal’s Liquor store in Nashville. Very malty. Aroma and taste are chocolate and some licorice. Very well balanced beer.
CaryTheDude (114), Ripon, Wisconsin, USA
Jul 18, 2008 Oooh, ooh, oooh, awesome. Dug it big time. This one is just good old fashioned delicious, with one of sexiest looking pours in recent memory.
saxo (2061), Højbjerg, Aarhus, Denmark
Jul 16, 2008 Bottle. Nice head with good duration. Color is dark amber. Aroma and taste are sweet caramel, malt and fruits. Good long finish.
ChainGangGuy (1457), Kennesaw, Georgia, USA
Jul 16, 2008 Appearance: Pours an opaque, dark reddish-brown body with a scattered, off-white head.
Smell: Sweet-smelling, malty aroma with notes of toffee, roasted grains, ripe plums, and with a full, everpresent, evergreen pine scent.
Taste: Sweet maltiness tasting of toffee candy. Plum fruitiness. Slight roasty coffee and woody hints. Piney, resinous hop character and moderate bitterness which hits right about the time the warming alcohol does. Finishes that’s all at once bitter, sweet, warming, and that roasty touch that won’t go away.
Mouthfeel: Medium-full body. Medium carbonation.
Drinkability: Well, I will say it’s one of the better beers in the Flying Dog line-up.
BeerBaron617 (80), Novi, Michigan, USA
Jul 15, 2008 I hate to use obscenities, but FUCK this stuff is strong. Just poured into my proper beer glass, It pours a very dark amber with off white head. The aroma is of alcohol and death. Upon tasting, It’s almost like biting into pure licorice root, but with some alcohol bite. It says in the commercial description they had to age this down, well I think this bottle could have aged a bit longer. I got this as part of the canis major series, so i kinda wanted to try all of them within one week. Although far from being a bad beer, I think this is just a bit too strong for my liking.
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