 pj1855 (158), Eagan, Minnesota, USA
| 4.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 9/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 18/20 |
Dec 20, 2008 Excellent beer. Need to let this one warm to room tempature to get the full flavor. Pours a reddish brown with an average light brown heard that quickly disappears. Great aroma of malts and spice. Smooth creamy mouthfeel with soft carbonation. Great mix of malts and spice with a little bit of a dry finish.
TAR (2097), Boulder Co., Colorado, USA
| 4.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 9/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
Nov 20, 2003 Clear cedar with crawling, patchy off-white froth. Vibrant nose laden with herbal tobacco, flowery hops, and gunpowder. Masterfully understated plummy esters, perfume, grape, lemon, dry chocolate, and musty books. Fully expansive carbonation as it hits the tongue, quickly turning creamy. Soft tartness to lead things off, met by hints of oxidation and distracting glassy flavors. Passion fruit notes with a delicate hint of melon refresh the palate. Lightly sweet, bready malts make a brief appearance and lend the much-needed sweetness, but are quickly overrun by the esters. Then come the beautifully lemony and flowery notes, countered by a plummy, herbal backdrop with just a touch of herbal hop bitterness and sparks of musty yeast. Finishes with a mild tingle, soft spiciness and very plummy with the musty yeast and gunpowder notes hanging on. If only the flavor could match the aroma, this would be perfect. It also needs more malt sweetness to match the herbal, phenolic elements. But this is undeniably complex for the style.
mwsf (360), San Francisco, California, USA
| 4.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 17/20 |
Mar 22, 2003 Tan with a nice head. Estery aroma with a slight yeasty funk. Bananas with lactic sourness and brett funk in back. Very nice undertones. Quite malty. Creamy. Maybe some oak. Nice beer.
Sigmund (2309), Hafrsfjord, Norway
| 4.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 9/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
Sep 4, 2005 750 ml bottle, corked "champagne" style. "Best before" date 23.03.2001! - brewed by De Smedt. Cloudy brown colour, large and lingering light tan head. Excellent vinous aroma, oak, red berries, leather. Pleasant oaky flavour with a nice acidity, vinous character. Notes of spices, well balanced hops. Very nice "cave beer".
karsten (241), odense, Denmark
| 4.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 5/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
May 31, 2002 Very fruity aroma. Great dark colour. Sweet and mild taste.
AndersR (194), Århus, Denmark
| 4.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 5/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 18/20 |
Jun 3, 2005 0.33 bottle. Hazy brown color with huge off-white head -so huge it slowly spilled out when bottle was opened and stood by itself a minute. Discrete spicy aroma with hints of yeast. Initially some sourness and bitterness, with a dry finish. No sweetness -imho a good thing ;-). In a blindtaste i would have taken this for an Oval!!?
Hansen (2357), Randers, Denmark
| 4.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 17/20 |
Jan 26, 2004 Dark beer with a big head. Malts and spice in the aroma. The flavor ends with a littel bit of banana.
harlequinn (2745), Tacoma, Washington, USA
| 4.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 3/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 18/20 |
Jun 4, 2004 Updated: Jun 6, 2004This one popped like a shotgun! The pour is a dark ruby-esque amber color, with a just a hint of head, clinging to the side of the glass. Aroma is very present with a bit of muskiness and slightly spicy. The mouthfeel is amazing, it is very alive in the mouth, almost undescribable. Unique in the sense that you just have to try it to understand what I am talking about. Lots of spiciness and pepper notes, if I could say almost starchy. I loved it!
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