2.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Interesting but too sweet and a tad boozy. The beer pours a brownish purple and looks like a thick red wine. There was little head on my pours, and while I can kick up some bubbles if I try, there was never any real lacing. I don’t usually care about appearance, but this beer does not make for a terribly pretty glass. The aroma is almost there with sweet caramel, dark stone fruits and a hint of something else, possibly the fig juice. It’s a tad on the sweet side, but it’s still quite pleasing. The sweetness increases in the taste and gets a tad cloying. The feel is also fairly sticky. There isn’t enough hop bite to balance out the sweet malt.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Large bottle, thanks for sharing Waylo! Poured a dark brown with thin tan head that quickly dispersed. Earthy and herb with some slight fig notes. Malty but not complex, kind of like a thin barley wine. The spice notes are not overwhelming and things mellow towards the finsh.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Murky dark brown with a thin dissipating khaki head. Smells sweet, fruity, earthy. The flavor was much like that of an English barleywine. Smooth and malty with notes of earth, herbal mint, wood, fruity, toffee. Fig finally becomes noticeable in the finish oddly enough it is quite prevalent there with its signature tartness and earthy character. This was a lot better than I expected.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Fig flavor. Standard doppelbock. Maybe heavy handed on the fruitiness. Too sweet when warm. This needs to be appreciated a bit colder for balance.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Clear dark amber body, frothy tan head fades. Aroma of berry, fig, caramel, graham cracker, sweet juice, roast malt and cedar. Taste is smooth slick buttery caramel and fruit. Some alcohol is present through the nose in the finish. Earthy bitterness is balanced well by a brown sugar/toffee sweetness. Medium body, lively mouth coating carbonation.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle. Pours a ruby body with a thin off white head. Fruity malty esters, dates, plums, fig, dates, and cinnamon notes. Malty and chewy with a solid warming. Lighter fructose with a sweet warming. Wow, well done.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle: Almost Ruby in color, clear, moderately sized light beige head, frothy, spotty lacing. Bready nose, very slight dark pitted fruit. Smells like a Dubbel of sorts. Not as heavy, nor fruity as most Dubbels, but it does offer up some fig/date like flavors, as well as a mild breadiness. Body and mouthfeel are moderate, not quite up there for most Dubbels, let alone Strong Ales. Clean finish, figgy, a little bit of fruit skin as well. Lingering breadiness. Think of watered down Dubbel when drinking this. Flavorful, enjoyable, but could stand to be a bit heavier.
2.3 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 7/20
Tap @ The He’Brew Bash at the Blind Tiger NYC. I was fricking wasted by the end so some of these rates might be a bit odd. SMells like lettuce and cheese. Odd fruit. Sweet and slightly cringey. A very strange little number.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle. "Year Of The Fig" Pours murky, ruby-tinged brown with a short, beige head. Aroma is dark fruits (figs and raisins), earthy notes, sweet malt, candied fruit, caramel, light chocolate and dusty cocoa. Taste is rather sweet with more dark fruit notes, caramel, chocolate, light cocoa, candy, light earthy notes and soft spice. Body is creamy and chewy with medium carbonation and an over medium to medium-full palate. Ends with more sweet malts, cocoa, dark chocolate, figs and raisins, light plum, spicy notes, light earth, and caramel. Very nice stuff!
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle 22fl.oz.
Light unclear dark amber color with a average, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, dark caramel, burnt caramel, fruity, light to moderate hoppy, light alcohol. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20090913]
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