North Coast Anniversary X Ale

Formerly brewed at North Coast Brewing Company
Style: Old Ale
Fort Bragg, California USA

Serve in English pint, Snifter

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Bottle shared by Captain Cougar. Pours clear amber with little to no head. Aroma is heavy malt (toffee, nutty, caramel, cookie), heavy hops (floral, pine), and average esters (dried fruit) with notes of plum, dates, alcohol, port, and cardboard. Flavor is heavy malt (toffee, nutty, caramel, cookie), heavy hops (floral, pine), and average esters (dried fruit) with notes of plum, dates, and port. Full body, medium warmth and carbonation, light creaminess with a dry finish.

Big doughy caramel malt nose, lots of cookie dough, very oxidized, sherry notes and tobacco. Taste is light to moderately sweet, no real bitterness, but the oxidation has cut down on the apparent sweetness so it isn’t unbalanced. Lots of cola, some leather, sherry and toffee. Nice.

Sampled on 2/9/2010. This pours a medium brown color from the bottle. Medium sized white foamy head. The aroma is plums and brown sugar. A medium bodied . The malts are caramel, plums and prunes. The hops are earthy. Nice balance. Very smooth tasting. A touch of oxidation, but hey this beer is nearly 12 years old. Thanks for sharing Mike. Mouthfeel is full and round. Finish is clean and smooth. Aftertaste is slightly sweet.

North Coast Brewing Company--Anniversary X Ale--1998 25.6 oz. Bottle. 7.00% ABV. (4.75 / 5.0) Grand Cru--Aged in oak. Rich clear enticing red color. Fleeting wonderful aroma. Brutally rich balanced dry body. Not hoppy, but fleeting sweet fruit malt is big and balanced. WOW! 1/1/1999.

Bottle. Tofee colored beer with little head. Oxidized and past its prime, but aroma of caramel and light sherry. Toffee flavor with some dried fruit and sherry notes. Medium-light body. Oxidized notes linger with some caramel/toffee and a litle earthiness.

Thanks Aspidites, Poured hazy dark amber brown, oxidzed, dark fruit, caramel, little wood, little nutty.

Thanks to Aspidites. Pours dark murky brown with no head. Nose of dried fruit, caramel, toffee and some expected oxidation. Same in the flavor with the addition of a smooth sherry like influence. A bit sweet.

What? Really? Thanks after4ever! Seriously. I don’t want to stop sniffing it, just sitting with the glass, savoring the aroma. Heavy oak, mushroom, creme brulee, seems sharper than 7%. Unmoving sludgy muddy brown. Raspberry, light wood, much thinner in body than expected, still magical.

750ml corked and caged. Opened with a very faint sound of carbonation. Murky dark caramel brown that pours still, but will show a faint head with some swirling of the glass. Tons of oxidation going on here. Sweet tobacco leaf, slight port, some hints of cardboard, a bit of caramel, fig newton, wet leafs with a bit of booziness down low. A bit watery with really no carbonation, tons of tobacco, a bit of leather, wet cardboard, vanilla bean, some pepper and booze on the end. No idea what this beer was like fresh, but is deffinetly totally different I am sure. Completely oxidized and basically flat but I did enjoy it and happy to have been able to try it. Thanks Tom.

750, corked and baled. thanks, sprinkle! opens with the tiniest puff of sound, probably just the grind of cork on glass but there just might be some carb in there too. pours a dark murky ebony with caramel edges. no head or lacing. big cola, nuts, molasses, and mild spice on the nose. some tobacco and port as well. creamy medium body with not much carb at all. figs, tobacco, leaves, port, caramel, and a hint of cola on the mid palate. mild earthy toffee finish.