 Radek Kliber (3926), Toronto (Can) Krotoszyn (Pol), Ontario, Canada
Mar 10, 2005 High liquor like nose, woody with bitter hops behind. Minimal head, thick juicy ale. Dried plums , cherries , nice long lasting velvety flavours . Very vintage in style.
BuckNaked (1204), Tempe, Arizona, USA
Mar 8, 2005 1999 Vintage courtesy of cornboy: Dark black body with a small dark tan head. Aroma is tart with notes of yeast(smells similar to de dolle), merlot, vinous grapes, cherry, chocolate, roasted malt. The taste is tart cherry, sour brett, wood, chocolate and roasted malt. Thick, oily body.
Jeppe (2638), Ølbutikken, Denmark
Mar 6, 2005 Vintage 2001.
Pitch black with a fine brown head. Penetrating lambic aroma with the characteristic tone of grapefruit and wood?!?!? I can’t believe this is a stout?! Heavy roasted flavor with dark fruit, soya, raisins and again that note of lambic. Extremely salty and almost undrinkable. This is just too weird, it doesn’t taste of infection, but I can’t believe it’s actually suppose to be like this?! I will have to try it again some day!
JFGrind (1346), Glenside, Pennsylvania, USA
Mar 2, 2005 1999 Vintage - One look at the label and knew I wanted to try this Imperial Stout in a classic English bottle. It was left over from the Philly RB Gathering and after a few sips I knew why. Worstershire aroma, blackest black body. Oak flavor may be the best thing I’m tasting. Flavor was a major turn off for me. Oily soy sauce flavor that was hard to swallow.
Probiere (992), Iowa, USA
Feb 28, 2005 1999 vintage. heavy tannic/anise nose. Lots of winey characteristics. Pity they don’t mesh well with the actual "beer" part of the beer. Distinct expreso/roast aftertaste, longloasting. Somewhat nasty immediate anise aftertaste. Sticky. Some fruit. Thank you cornboy! I just can’t dig it, though.
tiggmtl (4307), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Feb 27, 2005 Earthy, sour, musty and damp, corked aroma. Opaque heavy brown body with no head whatsover. Chalky, salty, earthy, corked soya sauce flavour is acidic with some dark fruitiness and a roasty finish. Still and heavy with very light carbonation. Somewhat sticky in the mouth. Bottle sampled with MartinT and Olivier.
rederic (1787), montréal, Quebec, Canada
Feb 22, 2005 2001 bottle, deep black color, without foam, aromas of black chocolate, burnt toast, dry fruits of raisin, plum,winey,oaky,corky in the nose. Light and thin in the palate, the flavors are reminiscent of burnt toast, black coffee, dark chocolate, oak, cork notes, with a long finish of hop bitterness and burnt malt
motelpogo (4394), Plzen, Czech Republic
Feb 13, 2005 2001 bottle, thanks duff. pretty dark. made a loud pop when it was opened. complex aroma of port, mudcake, chocolate cream and asphalt. plenty of burnt chocolate bitterness, woody port flavours and some curious rusty belgan style acidity. surprisingly thin texture, very warming, not much sign of sweetness which makes a nice change for an imperial. good stuff, i’m looking forward to cracking another ’01 bottle in a year or so
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