2.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20Bottle. Bit of a gusher. Pours balck with huge dark tan coloured head. Bourban type aromas dominate. Plenty of alcohol, vanilla and a touch of smoke. Not too bad. Flavours let it down a bit. High carbonation makes it hard to get much. Perhaps some raosted sweetness and a alcohol on the finish. Carbonation is way to high for me. Not the best beer I had and certainly missing a bit of balance but hey at least they are doing something a little different.
3.5 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
pitch dark, large bubbly brown head. aromais roasted malts, loads of roast, smoke, sweet malts, dry. flavcor is roasted malts, caramel, smoked malts, cvelary notes.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
03-JUN-2012, bottle @Papsø tasting.
Black with light brown head.
Smokey nose.
Taste is smoke, roast, brett, tartness, bourbon.
Too carbonated.
Infected...?
Fine but messy.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottled. A pitch black beer with a huge but fast disappearing dark brown head. The aroma has notes of smoke, bourbon, roasted malt, and caramel. The flavor is sweet with notes of bacon, smoke, roasted malt, and bread, leading to a dry smokey finish.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
33 cl bottle. Pours pitch black with a huge, fizzy and tan head. Aroma is smoked and roasted dark malty. Solid roasted malty and smoked. Warming bourbon note too. Thick smoked and roasted to smooth bourbon dense malty finish.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle 33 cl. Courtesy of maneliquor. Pours an opaque pitch black with a lively if dissipating light brown head. Bourbon and peat in the nose. Medium body, violent carbonation, roast, peat, ink and iodine with an ashy roastiness. Malt bitter finish. Another interesting Moon Dog beer if somewhat out of control! 030612
4.4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
330ml bottle. This one pours all froth and bubbles. Thick and black in the glass with a deep tan head. Lots of peaty cigar smoke in the aroma, like an overflowing ashtray. The flavour takes your breathe away with a woodsmoke flavour that stays on the palate. Definitely a sipper.
1 AROMA 1/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 2/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 3/20
Pours black with a ridiculously large head, even after a gentle pour.
Nose shows peat, camp-fire smoke, charcoal. Very cigar-like. Way too much peat though, and the real problem is that there’s an enteric, blue-vein cheese character to it, which only seems to get stronger as you go.
The enteric character is not quite as noticeable in the flavours, but there’s still too much peat, smoke and booze.
Obviously there’s quality control issues here, and obviously not what the brewer intended. From what I’ve heard though this defect isn’t likely to be a one-off. I’d like to try an uninfected bottle in the future if I can find some, I’d been looking forward to this.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Tried several barrel aged beers now and they don’t always grab me too much, this one stood out, was interesting, and drinkable. Peat, alcohol, dark chocolate, coffee and more flavours, pretty good but probably couldn’t drink too many of them.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
Very intriguing beer from a brewer that I know little about. Very smokey and coffee malt taste. I look forward to sampling more beers from moon dog.
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