 Optigon (547), Bloomington, Indiana, USA
May 2, 2008
Pours deep amber with a fine, white head. Aroma is pleasantly hoppy with some darker fruit qualities. Dark fruit, caramel, and hoppy flavors. Strong hop bitterness. Light styrofoamy quality in there, but nothing overbearing.
rocbyter (636), Waterbury, Connecticut, USA
Sep 2, 2008 Strong and lightly fruity malt aroma. Clear amber color with a medium tan head. Malty taste getting sweet towards the finish. Light amount of hops are noticeable but mostly masked by the malt. Creamy palate until the end were it starts to lighten up.
Bockyhorsey (1968), Mesa, Arizona, USA
Sep 1, 2008 22oz bottle. Aroma of sweet fruits, fig. Red body with off white head. Fruit juice flavor that was too sweet and bitter for my palate.
Aubrey (2592), Denver, Colorado, USA
Aug 29, 2008 Murky burgundy; thin head. Full and rewarding on the tongue. Rich malt flavors filled with molasses and toffee, plus a cornucopia of fruit flavors (fig, apple, pear, raisin). Nice amount of earthy-grassy hops to boot. Another tasty He’Brew.
jcwattsrugger (3942), Florida and, New Jersey, USA
Aug 25, 2008 22oz bottle-pours a light tan head and copper/red color. The aroma after the initial burst, is mild sweet medium/dark malt, dark fruit. Taste is sweet medium/dark malt-caramel/chocolate, roasty, dark fruit-fig/raisin, secondary hops bitterness. Semi dry finish. Medium body. Good carbonation. Thanks to Joe-jwc215 for picking this out.
Heathen (508), Riverside, New Jersey, USA
Aug 23, 2008 THOUGHTS: A nice beer. I usually love He’brew beers, but this isn’t nearly as good as most of their offerings. Reminds me of a watery or at least lighter Raison D’etre. Actually probably a great beer, but a sorta weak He’brew at the same time.
TECHNICAL: Bottle. Poured a clear, dark red with a small tan head that fully diminished that left virtually no lacing. The aroma was raisin, apple, cherry and something else that must have been fig, along with some red wine, alcohol, moderate to heavy molasses and slight cereal malt. The initial flavor was light to moderately sweet and moderately acidic; while the finish was moderate to heavily sweet, lightly acidic and moderately bitter with an average duration. There was molasses, what must be fig, but also raisin, apple, cherry, alcohol and then some hops right at the end. The light to medium body was syrupy and sticky on the lips with fizzy carbonation and a metallic, light astringent and light to moderate alcoholic finish.
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