3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle from Zach. Mahogany, wood stain, broccoli, flour. Medium bodied, nutty, with a flavor of sweets, chalk, wood, malt. Simple, easy drinking, but decent.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
UPDATED: FEB 11, 2010 12 oz bottle. Pours brown with foamy, short lived, brown head. Aroma of nuts chocolate malt with hints of bread and molasses. Medium body, slightly crisp, some sore notes. Nutty, dark fruit and brown sugar flavor with some hints of citrusy hops. Medium finish is dominated by chocolate and sweet dark fruit. Some metallic notes throw off the impression at the end. Otherwise tasty (although very average), easy drinking brown.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Pours dark brown. Aroma is... unsurprisingly... nutty. With a hint of coffee maybe? Taste is semisweet, and nutty. Mouthfeel is a bit carbonated. Not bad, but nothing special.
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 11/20
Big, beefy maltiness in the beginning, finishes with a touch of hops to give it a little bite. Very well-balanced flavor, but the overall result is a bit uninteresting. Still tasty and easy to drink, but not really complex enough to sip slowly.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Dark brown pour with reddish tints, and a light tan head that dissipates somewhat rapidly. The aroma is hazelnut, chocolate, caramel, with hints of roasty coffee. Pretty typical. The flavor is lighter than the appearance would suggest- roasted barley, coffee, chocolate, and hints of nut prevail. Hop character is minimal, but vaguely noticeable. Like the flavor arrangement, the palate on this one is a bit thin and watery. The body itself is quite clean, finishing mostly clean, and semi chalky.
3.1 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Situation: oiling the gears for New Year’s Eve...
Glassware: Howard’s Pub pint...
Appearance: dark cola body allows a swiftly setting brown head; far more dark than the average brown...
Aroma: the buttery, nutty tones are tuned down, almost to a subtle whisper; crisp hops perhaps do the trick?
Palate: fizzy, provocative texture that peppers the teeth; medium-bodied and rich in effervescence; unlike a cola, short in retention and aftertaste...
Taste: the nuts are subdued (as in the aroma)--more of the browning malts seem to create a bedrock of solid flavor...
Overall: this fits the case well, as did the Cold Front--warms and reveals texture as the glass drains...nice ale-ish activity at the finish...however, nothing really sets this beer apart from its class or its competition...
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
12 ounce bottle courtesy of j12601. VOTE J12601 Newbie of the Year! Pours a copper tinted dark brown color with a thin creamy tan head. Decent head retention and lacing. Aroma of nuts, chocolate, hay, light strawberry and other fruits. Taste is chocolate, nuts, bitter leafy hops with a bit of a pineapple-citrus bite. Light coffee as well. Medium bodied.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle. Pours a very dark brown - I dove into this right after finishing the Gorges Smoked Porter, and other than the head being slightly lighter-colored, it looks pretty similar. The smell, however, is hardcore hazelnut. Even a little coffee bean in the back. Taste is the same, with a little peanut in the finish. Definite hazelnut, all the way through.
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