wilderthanyou (410), Guelph, Ontario, Canada Dec 5, 2007 Pours a motor oil brown with a thin brown head that quickly disappears into nothing. The aroma is like if you mixed a porter with some fieldberry jam, with some notes of roasted malts, and coffee, and then the aroma sort of rounds off with a fieldberry jam scent. Flavours again, are slightly porterish at first, but finishes on a sweet berry flavour. Tasty.!! SHIG (2012), Aviano, Italy Dec 5, 2007 Bottle: Poured a thick black and tan head. The aroma is dark malts and fruits. The taste is fruit and nuts with roastedness. Alldaydrinker (557), Norwood, Massachusetts, USA Dec 3, 2007 12 oz bottle Pours a dark brown colour with a medium frothy tan head. Nose of red fruits, cocoa, and light roasted malts. Initial taste of cream, roasted malts, berries, and cocoa. Moving into a tangy cocoa berry. Palate stopping chalky dry finish. Mild bitterness lingers. Medium body. Decent head retention and lacing of the glass. RaphaelN (195), Peterborough, Ontario, Canada Dec 1, 2007 Bottle shared with a friend.... Bacon! This beer dominates with a smokey bacon taste.Absolutely horrid taste, with a lasting aftertaste which is equally bad. Smell was of roast, peat, more bacon in the nose. Stay away for your own palate’s sake. jcwattsrugger (5223), Florida and, New Jersey, USA Nov 25, 2007 500ml bottle -pours a ? head and ? color. Aroma is chocolate, charcoal, grain. Taste is chocolate, charcoal. Grainy mouth feel. Juelze (889), Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA Nov 25, 2007 Pours a dark brown color with tan head. Aroma is of a light chocolate and fruit with a bit of roasted grain. Taste is chocolate, light smoke, roasted malt and light fruit (elderberries). Medium bodied and nice to the palate, this was a good beer. Petrucci914 (574), Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA Nov 24, 2007 Pours a dark brown with a red tinge. Aroma is of dark roasted oats and red wine. The flavor is of red wine with a smokiness to it. yespr (11645), Copenhagen O, Denmark Nov 20, 2007 33 cL bottle. Pours pitch black and with a dense light brown head. Spiced and dark roasted aroma. Roasted malt and mild chocolate smoothness in the initial flavour. A set of wineous notes and spices appear before the finish, a citric/fruity note of elderberries too - but if I didn’t know from the label that it contains elberberries I wouldn’t have guessed/sensed it. The finish itself holds a solid bitterness with a liqourice note. Nice, but lacks some more powerful flavours to be more interesting, subtle flavours are plentiful yet too vague.
|