SNIAT (120), Passaic, New Jersey, USA Nov 28, 2001 A malty heavyweight porter from Heavyweight. Only criticism is the perhaps a bit to much malt mkobes (2023), New York, USA Dec 20, 2003 Updated: Dec 26, 2006It was on tap. Nice deep, dark in color with a off white head. Very good beer. Really enjoyable. It has a warming feel to it. It warms you up. Fruity nose. beermatrix (1497), Twin Cities, Minnesota, USA Jun 24, 2003 Nice dark and thick, cloudy chestnut brown color with ruby red highlights, I recieved no head with a vigorous pour, puzzling, a small fizzing appeared like a cola and then fizzed away just as fast, leaves limpy fading stringy lace.
Smell is faint of sweet malts, somewhat toffeeish and some dark fruityness of plum and banana with a touch dark yeast and of alcohol warmness.
Taste is much more complex then what the smell gives, quick dark fruits hinting raisin, plums, and banana enter then fade, rounding into tons of sweetness of toffee and dark caramel malts, lots of malts, but with just the right balance of hop bitterness and dark yeasty hold into the middle right on through to the finish leaving lingering sweetness and warming senses from the 8.2 ABV. Me likey.
Feel is pretty full and creamy, getting syrupy close to to the middle where it hits the bittering mildness that finishes a bit lingering in sweet hold and leaves the mouth with a buttery tang. Quite nice.
Very good example of the style. DYCSoccer17 (2009), Davis, California, USA Jul 11, 2004 Yeasts, mustiness, grassy, grainy, sour nose. Fairly complex. Slightly hazy gorgeous garnet-mahogany color with a nice off-white head and nice lacing. Start is sour with raisin hints to start. Inky maltiness to finish. Smoke in the end as well. Pretty interesting and complex beer. I like this a lot. Nate (2212), Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA Aug 12, 2003 Deep malty aroma. Chocolate, red wine, plums, light fruity hops. Raisins & tannic yeasts. Huge foamy fluffy off-white lacing head. Copper brown clear. Med heavy watery body. Alcohol taste, sweet like homemade wine. Plums & raisins. Good level of hops giving some acidity and light bitterness. Finish is mild sweet raisins with light nutty bitter after. Enjoyable.
|