 alobar (1015), Harleysville, Pennsylvania, USA
| 3.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 14/20 |
Apr 13, 2008 Pours a dark brown with a slightly tan head. Chocolate and coffee aroma and taste. No fruit apparent. More like a thin porter than anything else. Enjoyable.
bigguns22 (99), Maryland, USA
| 3.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 15/20 |
Apr 8, 2008 I like this beer one of the best I have had.black with a small off white to tan head.This smooth and complex beer is fruit with a smokey finsh.Good start to finsh I would love to find the cask version.
GG (1619), NorCal, California, USA
| 3.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 15/20 |
Mar 27, 2008 Another pretty decent beer from these guys. I’ve had a few from them that was WAY past their prime but this one and a best before date of June ’08, so we were good. An aroma of tart berries (underripe strawberries came to mind) with just a touch of roasted malts and wet dirt. Appearance pours out a dark brown, nearly black body with a thick creamy head. Mouthfeel had a minerally quality to it. Flavor had a nice combo of smoke, peat, fruit, and coffeeish malts. Not sure how much of this I could drink, but 1 bottle was just fine.
Carlus12 (361), London, Greater London, England
| 3.4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 13/20 |
Mar 22, 2008 Bottle courtesy of DownsouthGav. Pours black with red edges. Thin tan head. Aroma is dark fruits, hops, slight coffee. Taste is fruity, berries, smoky, creamy. A little rough round the edges but a nice beer.
robforbes (1085), Bremerton, Washington, USA
| 3.5 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 15/20 |
Mar 16, 2008 purchased at 99 bottles in federal way, washington.
pours black with a red tint when held up to the light, medium size khaki head, okay lacing.
smell is of sour fruit, some cocoa, a roastings in the back.
taste is of tart berry, some milk chocolate, hint of caramel, hint of vanilla, ends sweet & sour with a bit of bitterness in the back.
DownsouthGav (602), Greater London, England
| 3.5 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 3/5 | 13/20 |
Mar 15, 2008 Bottle. Chocolate. pours a pitch black beer with a small beige head. Coffee malty, chewy, coacoa, hops taste. Can’t really detect the elderberry. There’s also some smokiness like a rauchbier-lite. Interesting but somewhat unbalanced brew.
Sammy (3976), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| 3.8 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 17/20 |
Mar 13, 2008 What’s not to like? A fruity smooth stout with the aroma of its roasted barley, good stout like thickness, no coffee. And elderberries are as healthy as wine because they are blue, seriously.
DandyWolfFloyd (331), Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, USA
| 3.3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 5/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 15/20 |
Mar 9, 2008 Updated: Aug 11, 2008This is a really exciting brew. It’s aroma was very pleasant, with dark malt nose and some alcohols. It appearance is very dark, very nice, with a off-white collar. It’s flavor was very good berry spice with herbs, and dark malt. Its extremely smooth. It’s a real nice ale. This is about as strong as a session should be, but a nice connoisseur treat as well.
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