4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 15/20
Color is muddy brown with a full tan froth that lingers. Pours a full, soft nectar with little residual effers. Aroma is of cooked malt. Flavors of sweet creamy biscuits and buttered toast. Has a warming sensation with a long finish. It’s like eating buttered pancakes with maple syrup. Definately drink it cold.
3.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Pours a dark cherry oak color with a short tan head. Hints of butterscotch/molasses with a quick bitter finish.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Deep clear chestnut brown, brief tan head. Peaty, earthy aromas with sweet caramel underlying it all. Faintly smoky character surrounds sweet caramel, with an earthy minerally element too. A little sweeter than something I could drink all night, but still a good beer with character.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Pours a dark brown that you can easily see through once held to light. Small off-white head. Apples, plum, and caramel in the aroma and flavor. Syrupy mouthfeel. Pretty solid.
2.4 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
Dark brown pour with a pervasive off-white head. Wanted to like this one..but the off color nearly (but not quite) foul smell knocked this one back a notch. Remarkably, the flavor was altogether different....pretty tasty...big sweet malt, mild smokiness as it warmed....big surprise. At $11 per sixer, this one rates as a big bust, but not nearly as bad as I wanted to rate it.
3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
UPDATED: JUN 29, 2006 This is the first time I have had this beer. Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a black color with a medium to large brown head. The aroma is sweet and has light malts and fruity hops with a hint of vinegar underneath. The flavor is rich with tangy and sour malts and ripe fruit - cherry and plum mostly. There is an odd undertaste that I can not quite identify but is rather pleasant. A bit of alcohol burn comes through on the finish. A nice beer I will have to try again.
3.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
12 oz. bottle. Pours a very deep reddish brown with a moderate mocha head that lasted through the entire glass. Light, pleasant aroma of malt and caramel. Flavor is definitely malty with caramel and prunes also present. Nice finish. I really enjoyed this one.
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
(12oz Bottles. 03/2006). Aromas of sweet, rotting fruits and molasses. Deep, dark amber. Flavor of molasses and rotten apricots. Full-bodied and almost cloying on the palate. Big, sweet finish that, yes, indeed, as described commercially, lingers. Syrupy. Like drinking black-strap.
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