 Raphael__N (157), Toronto, 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.
oteyj (298), Canterbury, New Hampshire, USA
Jul 31, 2008 Pours dark brown, almost black with one finger tan head. Aroma is ripe fruit, roasted malt, and spices which I can’t exactly pinpoint. Flavor is quite roasty- along the lines of something you would find in a porter with the herbs and spices slightly noticable. Palate is of average body and not overly think or thin- just in the middle. Interesting, but not outstanding.
lithy (107), Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Jul 31, 2008 Nice black pour with a creamy stout like light brown head that clings to the glass and sticks around for a while. Nice roasted aroma with some fruity sweetness that I can only guess are elderberries. Drinks nicely at room temperature. Has that distinctive taste of a very traditional style black ale much like New Belgium’s 1554. Slight roastiness, very smomoth with more nice sweetness in the middle. Not an overpowering berry flavor and the very dark fruit profile of the elderberries compliments the roasted malt nicely to create a smooth finish.
TheGrandMaster (1419), Auckland, New Zealand
Jul 25, 2008 Bottle (in NZ), pours black with a tringe of purple, with a thin bubbly beige head. The elderberry is there, but the aroma is mroe grape, with some toffee malt. Chocolate malt on the palate, licorice and grapes. The swallow is oily, before a pleasantly dry and ashy finish.
IrishBoy (2074), Bakersfield, California, USA
Jul 16, 2008 330ml bottle from Bottleworks BB Aug 09; Nose of coffee, locorice, berries, and a very slight background menthol note; extremely dark but transparent brown with a medium, glass-lacing tan head; flavor has locorice, slight berries, and coffee in the background; finish is very light menthol and bitterness. Unusual brew!
borisz (124), Netherlands
Jul 15, 2008 33CL Bottle, Dark color, medium head wich is fast gone. Berry taste.
Good beer.
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