4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
UPDATED: NOV 30, 2012 Tap at Roasthouse - pours caramel orange cloudy with medium diminishing white head. Big esters, dried fruit, dark bready malt, raisins and touch of strawberry (as noted). Taste is delicious, with lots bready goodness, malt and dark fruit, with clean finish. Medium lively palate. Very excellent. Approaching the Trappistes, but still some ways to go. (Reaffirmed rating with caged 750 mL bottle. Awesome.)
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
750 cc from Capone’s. Pours turbid dark brownish chestnut with minimal tan head. Nose is figgy fruit, tart black cherry, plum, and pear esters, oak, caramel malt. Tastes rich, fruity, with notes of apple, pear, tart cherry, and late funk, oak, caramel malt, an overall tart earthy fruity mouthfeel, and a lot of complexity. This one is stellar.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 18/20
Poured a cloudy amber color with a very thin white head. Aroma is banana, raisin, caramel, earthy, and pear. Taste is cherries, raisins, pineapple, caramel, pear, and a nice alcohol burn to finish it off.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
On tap half pint at Gilly's Craft Beer & Wine in Rockville, MD.
Cloudy, dark rusty brown with small khaki head and very good lacing.
Aroma of grape, raisin, plum, citrus, yeast, toffee and brown sugar.
Taste of plum, raisin, brown sugar, toffee, caramel and yeast.
Full body and medium/low carbonation.
---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle courtesy of Tommy from Flying Dog, thank you sir! Hazy brown color, smsll tan edge head. Aroma of slightly boozy plums, prunes, raisins, caramel. Taste is bittersweet figs and raisins, with some Christmas fruitcake on the side. Very nice!
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
75cl from Appellation Wines. Pours a cloudy dark brown with a decent head which does disappear quite quickly. The nose has Jamaica cake and demerara sugar. The taste has spicey ginger and this leads into ginger biscuits then a creamy finish. The palate has a really rich texture with a long persistent finish. Overall a really good beer which I’d describe as an Imperial Bitter.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Draft at Beer Run. Pours a hazy copper color with a thin creamy tan head. Good head retention. Aroma of brown sugar, stone fruits, chestnuts, faint herbal notes. The taste is bronze sugar, toffee, cherries, stone fruits, booze, lightly tart finish. Medium bodied.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
750ml, caged and corked bottle. Poured a deep amber color with a small sized off white head. Aromas of dark fruits, roast, caramel, and licorice. Tastes of chocolate, licorice, raisins, some bananas, and some burnt brown sugar.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Poured from a large bottle into a trumpet glass to drink. The beer had a rusted copper-brown color with a good-sized, foamy off-white head that had good retention, lacing and cling. Its aroma featured fruits, particularly cherry and some light raisin, with a nice caramel mix, along with some earthy and grainy hops. It had a sweet cherry and fruity flavor, with a lighter mix of caramel, and a somewhat bitter and sour grainy finish. The beer had a fairly wet body with a slight creamy, watery mouthfeel, and average fizz and life.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle. Pours dark brown with a medium, frothy light tan head, medium retention with light lacing. Aroma is cookie and spiced bread malt with raisins, dates, and figs, and a medium alcohol presence. Flavor is malt dominant with caramelized Belgian candi sugar, dark dried fruits, light hops and bitterness with a dry finish and alcohol warmth. Full body and medium carbonation.
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