3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Tap @ Oggi’s Vista: Clear dark amber. Light sweet malt aroma. Sugar and toffee, and grapes. Flavor was very sweet. Toasted, thick caramel, light smoke. Full bodied and very warming.
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Mahogany pour, mostly lasting off-white head. Rich and chewy toasted malts are sweet and fruity (grapes, berries, caramel apple). Bitter on the palate, drying out immensely in fraction of seconds. Medium-full bodied, fair carbonation. Ridiculously hoppy imo which is too bad, because it has the great maltiness to make a fine malty barleywine or scotch ale, but this citric acidity is really too much.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
10.01.05 GABF Dark ruby brown. Medium bodied and sticky. Tons of dirt, earth, peat, whatever. Also leather and tobacco. Licorice. Pretty good.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 16/20
This beer was at PP Strong ale festival. It poured a deep brown color w/ reddish highlights, good head and thin lacing. Caramel and raisin sweetness, malt, hints of plum and wood on the nose. The flavor was the same w/ hints of grapefruit also. This beer was dry but aggressive, a full body and good effervescence.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
This beer was had on tap at Oggi’s Vista. It pours a dark mahogany color with absolutely no head and lacing. The aroma is very faint but sweet with chocolates, malt, pine, and licorice in the nose. Did i mention recently how I am not a big fan of licorice? Anyhow, this had a medium bodied flavor with a dark currant backbone followed by hints of grapefruit and lemon. This ends very dry, with little to no carbonation, Typical scotch ale flavor, grapefruity and banana-like...some appearance of that 9.6% as it warms. Solid but not all that exciting.
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 16/20
What kind of losers rated this beer bad...maybei just had a good batch. it poured a dark reddish chestnut color with a off white halo...nice malty, piney,. christmasy aroma leading to smooth, thick, and malty goodness with enough creaminess and maltiness to make me happy.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Clear garnet body. Aroma is medium sweet, caramel, some syrup, cherry, some alcohol. Taste is medium sweet, caramel, some roast, light scotch-alcohol warming. Medium-full body.
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 11/20
Dark Burgundy. Earthy, meaty, malt driven aroma with scents of syrup, apple, toasted malt and chocolate. Malts dominate and give a sweet, smoky, meaty, fruity feel with notes of caramel, chocolate, toasted bread and toffee. Well hidden alcohol but not very complex and a little on the sweet side.
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