 MesandSim (5790), London, Greater London, England
Jul 29, 2007 A Mes rate:
33cl bottle from Odd Bins. Very attractive dark amber colour with a slight off white film. LOVE the smell. Pine and spruce fall out of the top of the glass but underneath there is lots of complexity. Estery, plenty of berries, sugar, malt, yeast, some bready notes and just a lick of vanillary alcohol. Ooh pithy cherries too. Lovely aroma. Flavour is not quite so complex but still pretty good. Spruce and pine is not usually my thing but it works really well here. The berries come at you thick and fast and pretty much any stemmed fruit I can think of seems to be in there. Alcohol is hidden really well until the finish but it comes in nice and soft and just adds a really pleasant warmth on the way down. There is just a very slight acrid sticky feel at the back of the palate that lets it down a little for me. Maybe it is just a touch too sweet but I like a lot of what these guys make and this one is very close to excellent.
mabel (2530), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Jul 29, 2007 [416-20070709] 330mL (By Dec-07). Sickly heavy forest resin base aroma with weird chocolate notes and light sickly licorice. Clear, dark brown amber body with a quick off-white bubbly head. Floral malt flavour with heavy grain. Medium-full body. Unpleasant, mildly offensive.
Fukito (604), Buenos Aires, Argentina
Jul 28, 2007 Bottle, July 2007. Clear, red-copper color with a nice, creamy white head. Aroma is herbal, spicy, piney very resinous and a bit sweet. Flavor is strong, malty, caramelly, profound toffeeish and a strange herbal-bitter ending. Mouthfeel is medium, filling and warmig. Nice, strange, traditional ale.
b33r (363), Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Jul 26, 2007 Light brown cloudy color and small head. Aroma was interesting, but flavor was strange- it may have been the pine. The beer was aged a few years so it may have lost something
robinvboyer (1419), Sturgeon Falls, Ontario, Canada
Jul 25, 2007 300ml bottle from an xmas gift pack.
pours a clear amber color. aroma is big on the pine with fruit in the back ground. Flavour is nice and piney with a good amount of fruity bitterness int he finish. I enjoyed this quite a bit.
flowerysong (25), USA
Jul 24, 2007 Appearance: Pours a clear reddish amber with two fingers of off-white head that quickly dissipates.
Smell: Spicy malt with a hint of pine and a lot of fruit notes.
Taste: Sweet and fruity up front, leading into a wonderful mix of malt, apples, caramel, and pine on an earthy background. Long soft finish.
Mouthfeel: Smooth and full with light carbonation.
Drinkability: An excellent strong ale with lots of depth.
tytoanderso (1382), St. Louis Park, Minnesota, USA
Jul 21, 2007 Bottle. Just the smallest hint of pine on the nose. Mostly sweet malt. pours a rich, viscous copper brown with some decent sticky lacing. Definitely a some pine on the palate, but not overwhelming at all. Slightly herbal and woody with sweet caramel notes throughout. Decent carbonation with a fairly rich sticky body.
MullMan (1080), Bloomfield, New Jersey, USA
Jul 19, 2007 tall creamy light tan head, dark auburn mostly clear body. aroma is dried berries, light spruce tips, and sweet fruity malt. flavor is kind of the same; a bit water but sweet malty and dry/fruity, with some more pine needles/spruce tips. not bitter like hop conifers though. finish is a bit more dry and bitter in an herbal kind of way. yes, a bit woody but more like sprig branches. would be fun to have on a camping trip.
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