3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
(Bottle, Monk’s Café Wallingatan, Stockholm, 13 Dec 2011) Dark brown colour with frothy, beige head. Malty, fruity nose with dark bread, dark fruit, prunes, raisins and slightly spicy yeast aromas. Malty, fruity taste with notes of chocolate, caramel, dark fruit and a mild spicy bitterness in the finish. Medium body, slightly sweetish. Quite enjoyable.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
35,5 cl bottle @ O’Hara’s Freehouse. Rated on 22.01.2011
Aroma is somewhat malty with chocolate and some metallic notes. Flavour is also malty with semi‐dark chocolate, some coffee, hints of hay and metallic notes. Drinkable.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 13/20
12oz bottle poured into a shaker. Pours a dark brown with about a half finger of off-white head. Aroma of toffee and caramel. Taste is light sweet. Caramel and bready malt. Medium bodied with a somewhat thin texture. Lively carbonation and a long finish. Overall, not bad. I’d drink it again.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Location: 12 oz bottle from Colonial Wine and Spirits, 5/7/12
Aroma: The nose has some sweet malts, caramel, bread, a little roast, fruit, and nuts
Appearance: Pours a clear caramel-amber color with a foamy beige head and medium lace
Flavor: The taste is fairly sweet and malty as well, much like the nose, with a light earthy hop flavor
Palate: Medium bodied, with a slight stickiness, an easy drinkability, soft carbonation, and a light dryness
Overall Impression:
Overall, this beer is fine. Fine is really the only way to describe it. I didn’t love it or hate it. I’d drink it again, but not with any particular urgency.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Pours a light brown color with an off white head. Taste of bitter caramel and some toasted malts! Bit heavier than I was expecting!
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Amber with an off white head. Fuggles with grain maybe biscuit malt... taste with maltiness and a tang of rye.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle. Bready malt and dried fruit aroma. Amber color with minimal head. Slightly sweet dried fruit initially followed by a moderately strong rye bread malt flavor. Nicely blended. Love the rye flavor that comes out in this - a great beer.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
light for a winter ale but smooth, comfortable and has enough going on to keep you interested in cracking just another bottle.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottled 355ml. -Deep amber coloured, medium sized off-white head, mild caramel nutty nose. Moderate malty, caramel and bitter hops with light roasty notes. Pleasant soft hoppy finish. Not bad at all.
3.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Pours a clear brown color; nice white head; caramel aroma and taste; slight dry / bitter finish.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
It’s a very mild brew. Too mild for my taste. It’s not a bad beer per se. Just really not very flavorful of robust.
Aroma is very slight toffee and caramel. It’s over powered by a bread almost toasty scent.
Appearance isn’t much better than the aroma. It’s a muddy reddish brown hue. Slightly cloudy.
Taste falls in line with the aroma and appearance. Very low levels of sticky toffee and a bit of bread pudding maybe. Starts with a very mild and finishes that way. Maybe a bit of sweetness, but not much.
It starts kind of fizzy with a very small white head that dissipated quickly. Light bodied with a thin texture. The finish leaves you wanting (not more necessarily).
Overall, it’s drinkable and goes down easy but there’s not much to it. My least favorite of the usual Goose Island suspects. There are a lot better types of this beer around. I wouldn’t go back for more.
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