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.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
2008 MBG Winter Fest, served from a oak cask: Brown with lots of ruby highlights, minimal head nor lace. The aroma is indeed raspberry along with clean oak, grassy, and just a beginning hint of Brettanomyces. The taste is acidic sourness and fruit with just a dash of pale and caramel malting. The finish is a touch woody and alcoholic. The mouth feel is sprite and a bit dry, warming. A good beer that should only get better once the funk takes hold.
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.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Draft. Pours a ruby brune body with a thin white lacing. Big fruity flavor of raspberries, medicinal cherry and loads of alcohol, maybe vodka-esk. Light oak but just very strong.
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.
3.4 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.
2.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
First sample at NOTB EBF 08. Pours a murky violet tinted brownish gray with prety much no head and a very low carbonation (served from a barrel!). Aroma is intenste raspberry puree but earthy as well with some tartness- not as sweet and enticing as NG Rasp Tart though, and has a wierd phenolic alcohol burn in the end that was off-setting. Flavor is at first sweet rasp then gets a bit tart and finishes astringent with tannin, alcohol burn and paint thinner. Way too boozy and fusely for me- I almost couldnt drink it. I believe they said this was 12+% abv.
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