3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Poured a deep mahogany/brown and absolutely headless. Hazelnut & toffee aroma with mild alcohol and maple syrup. A little sticky, a little dirty, mostly mid-bodied but a little on the thin side. Flavors find mild chocolate malts with a touch of bitterness to finish while the aftertaste was semi-sweet. I drank it and immediately forgot that RAYBOY was at the pub... so I had another.
<font size=-4>On tap at <a href=http://www.ratebeer.com/Places/ShowPlace.asp? Island Beer Company (Clybourn), Chicago, IL 60614<font size=-1>
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Dark brown color with a smaller tan head. Aromas of dark chocolate, caramel and touch of dough. Flavors start fairly sweet with caramel and nutty malt. Middle added chocolate and darker malts. Finish stays a bit on the sweet side with a black malt bitterness. The goat still lives!
3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
On tap at the Wrigleyville brewpub before a Cubs game. Pours dark reddish brown with a beige head that disappears without a trace. Aroma is roasty coffee and malt with a little chocolate. Flavor loses a little of the coffee. Thin bodied with an astringent roasty finish.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
CASK!!!! at goose ... I could feel the difference in mouth feel on this one to all there KEGS... so why there notdoing more CASK i just dont know ... Deep brown ... light roast light pale ale hop nose ... sweet roast ... light malt ...little tofee.. it just wasnt roast enough.
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
Draft at GI. Dark brown pour with an off white head. The first thing I smelled was a good bit of roast, followed by an odd charcoal aroma and some light chocolate. Flavor was quite toasty and lacked much of a body. Way too thin for me.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Brown. White head. Herbal hops in the nose. Malty chocolaty nose. Light body with a dry finish.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
On tap at clybourn. Dark brown almost opaque black with small beige head. Subtle smokey aroma with dry roasted malt. Flavor is smokey with some raspberry/raisin, prune, some roast, sweet, yeasty. Mediun to light body with light carbonation. Interesting, I don’t know if I am completely into but sessionable.
1.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 2/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 4/20
i was forewarned and drank it anyways. this was truly terrible. i don’t how they pulled it off but it tasted like the bottom of an ashtray. i couldn’t even finish half of it. i couldn’t believe how bad this tasted.
3.1 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 14/20
Draught at Goose Island Tavern, Chicago, Illinois. An okay porter that poured a rich brown colour and the aroma of caramel. It had well-balance flavours of spice, malt and hops though it was a bit too thin for me.
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