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Pike Tandem Double Ale

Pike Tandem Double Ale - American Strong Ale

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 Percentile 
77
overall
Brewed by Pike Pub & Brewery
Style: American Strong Ale

Seattle, Washington USA

bottled
common

on tap
common

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 Ratings  Average  Score  Seasonal  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
1783.35/5.03.33/5.0Special7%28.3Snifter, Trappist glass
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Commercial Description:
Dark brown ale brewed with barley, 10% wheat, hops, plus coriander and candy sugar for complex rich flavor and a finish of tobacco and molasses. Formerly known as Imperial Bootleg Brown.
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 mj (4973), Colorado, USA
1.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/52/102/55/20
Feb 28, 2009    Updated: Mar 20, 2009
Caramel brown colored body, little to no head retention. Instant crystal malt nose overwhelms the senses and for an instant makes me nearly gag. Syrupy, oily, thin, disjointed malts seem like an afterthought... in fact the entire beer seems like a mish-mash let’s throw something together... wheat, coriander, candy sugar... they say molasses and tobacco but I only get wet cardboard (and I doubt this beer is heavily oxidized), soggy oat bran bread and an annoying strong amount of crystal-malt gingerbread cake. Vegetal nuts and coffee. Disgusting. Drain pour. This terrible beer is in my 4th %tile.


 spikester (602), Salem, Oregon, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/57/103/515/20
Feb 23, 2009  
Mahogany with a one finger light tan head. Good amount of lacings. Aroma is caramel and bready. Taste is caramel malt with a nice earthy bitter hop flavor. Mouthfeel is fine with medium carbonation. A bit of spice in the finish. Overall a decent brown with plenty of punch. A little on the sweet side for multiple beers.


 jkwalking05 (1483), Arlington, Texas, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/513/20
Feb 21, 2009  
Dark brown in color with a small off-white head. Aroma is of bubble gum, caramel and malt. taste is of brown sugar, toffee and roasted malt.


 RollinHard (748), Fort Worth, Texas, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/102/515/20
Feb 17, 2009  
Pours dark brown with orange highlights, and a very weak head that fades immediately. Aroma of brown sugar, cinnemon, banana, dessert bread. Simple and rather faint. Sweet and fruity taste of banana, caramel, cinnemon, clove and toast. Finishes with toast and dried dark fruit. Okay flavors, but totally empty texture. Watery body and prickly forced carbonation making things uncreamy. Filtering hurts this beer badly I’d say. Meh.


 rcasta (470), El Salvador
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/515/20
Feb 16, 2009  
en pike brewery con sici, parte de un sampler de siete birrias. pike’s market es increible, las patas de king crab inmensas. se come bien en seattle. es mas maltosa y con hoppiness. este es mi tipo de birria y seguramente de las mejores de pike.


 travita (1851), Frisco, Texas, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/512/20
Feb 12, 2009  
The smell is malts, fruitys, some roastiness, and caramel. The look is brownish with an ok biege head. The taste is roasty, toffee, fruits, sort of sweet. Sort of a weird beer could not figure what it has trying to be. Weak and flavors did not compliment each other.


 bleeng (587), Spring near Beersel, Texas, USA
2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/54/102/57/20
Feb 6, 2009  
Bomber. Hazy dark brown with small head. A sickly, stale, old hop nose I’m really beginning to hate. Taste of hops, pepper, spices, some malts. A bit alcoholic. Body is watery. What is this? A brown ale, a low grade double IPA. For me-a drain pour.


 BMan1113VR (2756), Los Angeles (and Dallas), Texas, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/55/103/514/20
Feb 5, 2009  
Small, light brown head that quickly fades over a hazy brown body. Okay lacing. Aroma is sweet with notes of bread, raisin, honey, donut and dark fruits. Taste is sweet malt, some cinnamon, and a donut flavor. Not very interesting. Watery mouthfeel and light carbonation. Would pass on it next time...



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