4.9 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 20/20
A fantastic brew! Unmatched even in Bavaria, and this is by a Swedish brewer!
4.5 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
Bouteille 33cl. 2007. Systembolaget. Sublime arôme malté/fruité. Belle couleur ambrée profond. Goût de malt caramélisé, levure fruitée, amertume discrète, houblons arômatiques. Excellente bière!
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 17/20
UPDATED: MAY 16, 2011 Bottle. Dark redbrown color. Creamy white head. Malt sweetness, butter and a tiny sourness in aroma. Malty, fruity taste with a small bitterness of dark chocolate in the aftertaste. Small tartness. 2011 bottle: Beautiful red-brown color, nice off white head. This beer is a homage to marzipan! It’s also fruity. Delicously "fat" texture. Swedens best beer?
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
UPDATED: JUN 18, 2008 33 cl bottle - Dark amber colored beer with a small beige head. Aroma is very nutty, actually some hazelnut feeling to it. Very strong roasted almond flavor to it, which surprisingly enough isn’t as common as it should be, specially considering how well it works with the enitre flavor.
4.2 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle, 2008 vintage, purchased at Systembolaget Karlstad in September 2008. My last review here wasn’t that serious, so I decided to rewrite it from scratch. Pours a deep ruby red color with a small, dying head. Amazing color anyway. Aroma is vinous; notes of port wine, dried fruits, toffee, liquorice, slightly nutty. Damn good aroma imho, very appetizing! Flavour is sweet, malty and vinous; dried fruits, toffee, port wine & (sweet) liquorice. Palate is filling, fullbodied, smooth, a bit oily even. Carbonation is soft. Overall a very nice sipper. I gave this 4.0 in September but this is even better than that! An amazing doppelbock, and overall one of the best Swedes all categories!
4.1 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
2003 bottled, with ram on label
Deep rich malty aroma, toasty, with raisins and prune, roasted grain, and brown sugar. Dark brown red hazy with off-white lacing head. Medium-thick oily body with medium-light carbonation. Sweet malty start, with raisin, licorice, alcohol. Warming. Nice dry bitterness and more licorice comes to finish. After is sweet-bitter, licorice, and oily. Nice doppelbock for sure.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
UPDATED: SEP 11, 2008 (50 cl bottle at Bishops Arms, Västra Hamngatan, Gothenburg on August 25) From 1999. Shady brown color, white head. Sweet raissin a bit vineous scent. Very smooth mouth feel. Sweet taste. Normal bitterness.
7/3/7/5/13=3.5
2000 version: (Bottle on RBESG 2006) Shady brown color, tan head. Sweet raissin Madeira like scent, also some grainy smell. Sweet raissin Madeira taste as well. Smooth mouth feel.
6/3/5/3/9 = 2.6
2005 version: (Bottle on RBESG 2006) Clear brown color, tan head. Sweet scent, a bit tame taste, perhaps sweet. Dry mouth feel.
5/2/5/3/10 = 2.5
Yet one more rating
(Draught at The Rover, Göteborg)
2007 version.
Clear dark red color, thick tan head. Malty, grainy smooth scent. Raissin, malt sweet taste. Smooth mouthfeel, medium bitterness.
7/4/7/3/13=3.4
New rating from March 25, 2008. (33 cl bottle at The Rover, Göteborg) 2003 vintage labeled 7.9% ABV.
Brewed 2002-01-18. Bottled 2003-04-24. BB 2004-04-24.
Shady brown color, smallish brown head. Raissins, port wine, alcohol, grainy scent. Raissin, alcohol, grainy, roasted taste. Coffee aftertaste. Chocolate as well. Smooth mouthfeel. Medium bitterness. Well aged I think.
8/3/9/4/17=4.1
New rerate
2007 against 2008
2007 at a 33 cl bottle 7.9% ABV purchased by me about 1 year ago at Systembolaget
2008 purchased by deft recently, 33 cl bottle at 7.9% ABV from Systembolaget
07 BB 05/08 - 08 BB 03/09
On September 11, 2008
07 rating - Clear dark reddish brown color, tan head. Sweet malty caramel scent, also roasted, raissins and metallic. Sweet caramel and toffee taste, roasted hints and also bready with raissins. Smooth mouthfeel, medium bitterenss. Very nice. Some dirt cellat moist earth tones.
8/4/7/4/15=3.8
08 rating - Clear dark reddish brown color, tan small head. Sweet malty and caramel sent, some alcohol. Sweet malty, bready and grainy, alcohol taste. Slight roasted aftertaste. Smooth mouthfeel, medium bitterness. A bit too young perhaps?
7/4/7/4/14=3.6
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
UPDATED: FEB 24, 2003 Bottled - 2002 vintage. Dark amber with no head. Dusty aroma. Hugely malty, dryish and full bodied. very firm and dense maltiness, rich and wonderful. Balanced toasty bitter finish. Perhaps not overlycomplex, but wonderfully flavourful. This beer keeps getting better for every year, but sadly also harder to find.
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