3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Half liter on tap at the Black Forest Inn in Minneapolis. Dark with a thin head. Aroma was light and malty. Taste was sweet malt, coffee, dark chocolate and a hint of cherries. Decent dark beer.
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle -- Far from one of my favourite styles, but here goes... Pours a deep browny red with a medium beige head with OK retention and a fair bit of lcaing. Aroma is sweet biscuit dough with a bit of roastedness and over-ripe fruit. Surprisingly watery palate. More roasted malt up front in the flavour, givng way to a fairly insipid sweetness. Actually very light and lacking in oomph. Has hints of depth and complexity but doesn’t follow through. Still not one of my favourite styles.
3.4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Pours a dark brown with a medium light tan head. Smells of roast and dark fruits mostly, some toasty caramel as well. It actually has a unique smell to it that I really enjoyed. The taste has a lot of dark malts, sugar, with the fruits being the most indistinct character of them all. Really short finish and the aftertaste is almost nonexistenet. It goes down easy and is pretty creamy. Not very exciting, but drinkable.
2.3 AROMA 2/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
brown body, very nice stable head, regular and bubbly, flavour is very weak, not distinctive, medium carbotantion, flavour is mild. alkmost no taste, the problem is that I can not feel the taste, you don’t rate what you don’;t feel,
poor brew, weak taste, not much
to say
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
UPDATED: DEC 15, 2007 Bottle: nice one, especially on a hot day like today. Well it’s quite sweet, quite malty, a bit too light bodied, some cocca powder, some roasty bitterness and smokey as well, good beer!
2.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
Black beer with a disapperaing head. Nothing overly spectacular here. Abit cordially and sweet for my tastes. Could be better integrated. Think Tooheys Old might even be better.
3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Fairly skunky aroma with toasty malt/bread notes and a light hint of fresh cut tobacco. The body is an amber/brown color and holds a lasting, bubbly tan head that is about a pinky thick. Mild cocoa, smoke, malt, dough and bread with only the sweeter flavors asserting themselves. Some faint caramel as well and again some very faint tobacco notes. FInish is fairly sweet with a cocoa/chocolate malt flavor. Decent enough.
3.1 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
Very dark brown/ruby with 2.5cm of frothy, light tan head. Nice pour. Aroma of toasty, biscuity malt, light skunk, light cocoa powder, and a light dose of crisp hops. Skunk disappears in the flavor. Mostly malt- toasty cookies, cocoa powder, and just a hint of noble hop in the finish. Skunk returns in the aftertaste. Medium body, just smoother than balanced. Easy drinking.
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