4.7 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 20/20
UPDATED: OCT 16, 2008 Cask pour at EBF 2008 - Night of the Barrels. This is the one example of barrel-aging that I think its truly profound and genius for its functionality. The American Oak gave me the illusion that I was eating a raspberry branch whole because the wood was so beautifully realized in the brew. All the sweet and none of the green. Just dynamite: I cannot stop thinking about this brew.
3.4 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Extreme Beer Fest 2/15/08: Dark red/brown, murky in appearance. I loved the aroma: raspberries, flowers--it smelled like a meadow. The taste didn’t quite live up to my expectations from the aroma though. Too much wood and not enough of the framboise and other flavors. Strong alcohol presence. It was ok.
3.9 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
EBF V NOTB. Looked like raspberry-tinged mud, in a good way. Aroma really nice with tart and sour raspberry, a complex, perfumy aspect, and wood. I felt the taste was too heavily dominated by the wood and didn’t allow all the other flavors exhibited by the aroma to fully shine. Still very tasty.
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 18/20
EBF NOTB. Deep red color. The aroma is of delicious raspberries and wood. The flavor was nice, I think the wood aging went better with this fruit beer than it did with many other beers from the evening. I think I got a piece of raspberry in my mouth while drinking.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle thanks to Eric and Brett Kuhnhenn. Bottle was a bit of a gusher. Reddish copper pour with a huge white head. Very strong raspberry note with a hint of alcohol. Reminds me of raspberry sherbet.
3.5 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cloudy amber body with reddish tint and a highly carbonated, large white head. The aroma is heavy with ripe raspberries, caramel and light esters. The flavor is caramel, raspberries, banana, slightly medicinal. Medium body is highly carbonated and slightly astringent.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Courtesy of the Kuhnhenn Bros.
Bottle: The aroma has lots of sweet raspberries with a hint of tartness. It pours a hazy reddish-orange with a large off-white head with great retention. The flavor contains lots of sweet raspberry with minimal tartness. The finish has sort of a faint woody bitterness.
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