2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
Canned. Dark brown, rich head. Sweet, toasty and burnt. Medium-ful bodied with molasses, butter, coffee and salt. Medium bitterness. Boldly flavourful.
1.8 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
Sweet, simple dark bock.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Can (BB 09/2005)
Dark brown-ruby color, creamy brownish head, lace. Roasted malts, coffee and burnt sugar in the aroma. Roasted malty, suprisingly quite thin hiding alcohol well. Slightly bitter, roasted aftertaste. Average, clean bock (dobbelbock?) but not very interesting.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
dark brown colour, few head, caramel, too sweet, long aftertaste
2.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Very dark brown with a nice bubbly off white head that falls back to a thin lace. Out of the can it smelled quite tinny and unpleasant. After I left it for a few minutes though this seemed to dissipate leaving a nice sweet caramel and vanilla smell. Aroma has faint amounts of toasted malt as well. Flavour is better than I expected. Sweet roastiness with the tiniest hint of fruit. Barely perceptible hops. Quite thin-bodied, which was a surprise.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Thin bodied with bitter chocolate and burnt, metallic notes…Some bitterness…There are much better examples…
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Very malty aroma from this dark brownish beer with a huge white head that fades out fast to a reasonable one-finger height. Nothing is particularly memorable besides the slightly warming feeling of the alcohol kick at middle-mouth.(sweet ordinary caramelic malt) A very decent balance is part of the meeting, but the shadow of a complex beer isn't.
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
UPDATED: APR 6, 2008 2008-04-05. Dark brown body, modest head. Sweet generic malts in both aroma and flavour, does not show as much of the alcohol as it could have. Better than the Maibock and Premium by a large margin, but still just an average brew. Flavour is primarily sweet malt, and hints of sugar. Average palate. 6/3/6/3/12 - 3.0 Can from LCBO, shared with Mabel.
<P>July 2003. Can was not nearly as good as I remember the draft version being, but quite nice. Sweet maltiness, hinting at chocolate at times maybe? A steal at $1.95 (Can.)for a 500 mL can! 5/4/6/2/16 - 3.3
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