3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20In short: A heavy uber-malty copper beer that drinks relatively easy
How: Tap at Vermont Brewers Festival 2011
The look: Partly cloudy copper body topped by a beige ring of foam
In long: The malty nose is rather timid for a 12% monster. No alcohol fumes, no fruity esters, just a pure cereals nose. Taste is mostly about malts, lots of toffee, burnt caramel, tree bark, notes of tobacco, wooden hops, alcohol well hidden. Body is thick and a bit syrupy. Overall this was rather easy to drink for a 12% beer. Not bad at all, but not exciting either. This was my last beer of the festival and it was enough, I was starting to stagger heavily and the festival staff just didn’t believe me when I said it is because I never got used to the constant rotating of the Earth.
2.1 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
12oz bottle. Pours a deep brown color with a thick head. Aroma is caramel malt and boozey, with some hop presence. Taste had a deep malty flavor and overpoweringly boozy.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle poured a caramel brown in color with a little off white head. Aroma has licorice, brown sugar, vanilla, sweet perfume, and bitter floral hops. Mouth feel is medium with lower carbonation. Flavor has sweet malts, light chocolate, vanilla,light hops, medium bitterness, and some heat. Smooth for the strength and much enjoyed. Home run for otter creek!
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 16/20
Draught at Akkurat, Stockholm. Very dark brown beer with a small but lasting beige head. Malty fruity aroma, hazelnuts, caramel, raisins, prunes, chocolate, toffee, dades, roasted, chocolate, marcipan, cream, pears and grapes. Fruity flavor, dades, raisins, hazelnuts, hoppy bitterness, caramel, citrus, earthy, floral, toffee, some warming alcohol. Long nutty finish with marcipan, toffee, caramel, grapes and some earthy notes. Really good!
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
Poured from a 12 ounce bottle thanks to lukaduke. Pours a darker amber color with no head. Aroma has some caramel, roast, licorice, toasted nuts. Taste is sweet and a little musty. Alcohol comes through in the finish. Just a little burn.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
12 ounce bottle. Pours reddish brown with an average biege head. Aroma of malt, caramel, and fruit. Taste is caramel malt, dark fruit, spice, and alcohol. Decent, although on the sweet side.
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
bottle. light brown with minimal head. very boozy alt style. definitely a sipper. not my thing.
2.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 8/20
Bottle gifted by jayhawk73. Thanks Jeff.
The beer appears copper hued, displaying an inch and a half of dense, khaki colored head. Excellent lacing and retention. The aroma brings alcohol, malt, honey, fruity esters, spice. The flavor is sweet and strong, with prominent alcohol throughout. Fruity, boozy, raisins, dates, and just overbearing. These days, there are many fine examples of barleywine and strong ale, with high alcohol content gracefully integrated into the flavor profile. Unfortunately, this is not such a beer. It’s a bit harsh and way too sweet. This is a headache in the making. I think I’ll quit while I’m ahead. Not a repeat for me.
Serving type: bottle
Reviewed on: 12-06-2011
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle from Lukaduke, thanks Luke. Pours red with a little bit of head. Flavor is some hops, malts and a few other notes. I liked it but its nothing incredible. Overall a good beer.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
UPDATED: FEB 21, 2013 Dark auburn color, into a snifter, nice looking pour into a snifter..aroma of syrup, brown sugar, molasses, vanilla, and booze. Taste is cloyingly sweet, warming and has the 12 percent punch..this is an odd offering that just is kind of a mess...
3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle. I will be completely honest and say that the reason I didn’t crack this one earlier is that I wasn’t very excited about it. You could even say that I had been avoiding it. I mean a twelve percent beer from a brewery with some pretty mixed results in my book... Anyhow, it has been in the back of the fridge for a long time. Hell, the label fell off when I grabbed it off the shelf. At any rate, I entered this ready to cut my losses and chuck it if it didn’t hit a level of quality that I deemed necessary to kill off 12 liver points. Pour is nothing too exciting... It’s the color of a tarnished penny and supports very little head, has lots of yeast floated swimming around in the glass and has aromas of wet cardboard and a little bit of brown sugar. I didn’t think I had a cold, but now I’m wondering. First sip is much more pleasant than I expected. Kind if like a really big sugar bomb barley wine or something. Boozy, sugary and sticky with a heavy ABV kick as it goes down. I take back all of my earlier reservations and complaints. This is pretty good stuff. Kind of wishing I had had the forethought to buy a few more for the cellar. There is just a hint of oxidation, but I would love to have another one in a year or so.
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