4.3 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
750 ml bottle. beautiful dark black pour with decent head. Aromas of burnt chocolate and some coffee. Similar flavors with dark dried fruits: Raisins, prunes. Bitter dark chocolate finish. Very tasty.
4.3 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
Bottle@Home, brewed 11/12/2007. Such a wonderful complex and balanced beer. And what a shame this brewery is gone...
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 17/20
2007 bottle. Pours black with a latte coloured head. Milk, rum, raisin and chocolate notes in the aroma. The taste is vinous, almost berry-like. Slightly sour. Also some licorice, honey, chocolate and coffee bean notes. A bit dry. Very complex, unique and elegant beer.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle at Man in the Moon.
Lots of choclate, porter tartness on steroids, berries. Complex and vinous.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottled, 2007 vintage, thus aged for ~ 4 yr.
Black beer, thin tan head. Intense, dry fruit/red currant/sherry aroma of an aged beer. Some chocolate notes still remain, maybe a hint of vanilla. Some alcohol and dark syrup. Woody, slightly tart finish has plums and traces of chocolate and barley flakes. Strong, slightly alcoholic flavor with moderate acidity. I really enjoyed it.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
bottle... dark black beer, very dark for a porter, light tan head, a bit watery, mostly leaves a ring... smells pretty nice, I get a lot of the honey, char... the taste is charred, a salty note... a bit tough to drink a ton of but 6 ounces is good
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle thanks to Doodler. Pours black with a grayish brown head that dissipated to the edges. Aroma has a good amount of roasted malts with a backing sweet honey note and sweet chocolate with a hint of backing dark fruit. Flavor starts with roasted malts and a bit of sweet honey backed by some dark fruits. Real nice.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
15th May 2009
Copenhagen Beer Festival. Opaque black beer with a chocolate coloured head. Soft silky palate. Quite sour, pleasantly so - cherryish - appleish. Subtle smoky malt then back to a fruity - sourish finish which leaves a warming afterglow. Chocolate malt in the aftertaste. Well joined up porter.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Rating recreated from Jaksmart’s notes cause I lost my own. Elegant aroma with subtle roast, some sourness, sweet honey, vanilla, lots of malt, age, oak, chocolate and some oxidation. The age is very apparent, but not at all undesirable. Taste is sour. It doesn’t dominate but is the main thing to notice about this beer. The soy component and the roast has that sourness that is sometimes developed with age. Sweetness from the honey as well as bitterness from the roast. Clear soy component, coffee, sugar, chocolate. Nice and complex. I wouldn’t age this any more if I had a bottle (Oh, wait I do).
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