 BeerLimey (1875), California, USA
Aug 31, 2005
Brilliant bright red appearance. Strong malty dark fruit (prune) aroma and notable spice. Well spiced bready malt palate, caramel, toffee and dark fruits. Fair bitterness in the finish.
boFNjackson (1012), Portland, Oregon, USA
Jul 4, 2009 Bottle... Poured a hazy amber/ruby color with a beige head. Musty aroma of spices, brown sugars, and malts. A little boozy but the sweet malts balanced nicely with dark fruit flavors, toffee, caramel and earthy hops.
anders37 (3951), Malmö, Sweden
May 25, 2009 Bottle. Vintage 2005. Pours an amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty piney hoppy aroma with some hints of caramel. Sweetish malty chocolate and caramel flavor with some hoppy bitter hints. Has a warming malty spicy chocolate and caramel finish with some hoppy hints in the aftertaste.
zathrus13 (1232), Mount Laurel, New Jersey, USA
May 2, 2009 Bottle. Pours Copper/amber, with an off white head. Aroma is caramel, malt, and toffee. Flavor is caramel, alcohol, and malt.
unclemike (761), Ft. Riley, Kansas, USA
Mar 24, 2009 Brilliant red-amber body with a crisp head that fades. Cotton candy aroma with an intense bubble gum quality and gorgeous malt touch--one of the vey best english strong ale bouquets. The flavor is of refined candy malt and alcohol--transfixed so it does not waver--extremely consistent throughout and well balanced with hop tone. A great english strong ale.
mwelsh13 (421), Maryland, USA
Feb 21, 2009 12 oz bottle pours medium copper brown with a slight tannish head. Bready nose with some smoke and toffee. Slight burnt coffee body. A bit dry and some sweetness with the medium body.
Tmoney99 (4203), Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Feb 18, 2009 Bottle shared by alexsdad.
Poured clear brown color with medium off-white fizzy head that mostly with good lacing. Medium roasted malt aroma with a hoppy tone. Medium to full body with a smoth texture. Medium to heavy flavor of roasted malt with a medium bittersweet finish of moderate duration.
Good interesting solid brew.
kitschy (159), Nebraska, USA
Feb 14, 2009 On tap at jolly roger tap room on valentine’s day. Cupid was good to us with this sweet, hoppy, roasted beer. Beautiful dark amber color, well-balanced beer with delightful hop finish. My favorite Christmas beer of the 2008 season.
captaincass (38), Everson, Washington, USA
Feb 4, 2009 smells and looks like a delicious winter ale. red and full. tastes way too sweet with a nice little hint of cloves. can definitely taste the booze in this one. no real trace of hops in this one.
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