4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20 markwise (2696) - North of Tampa, Florida, USA - SEP 29, 2008
750 from Total Wine Clearwater, courtesy of JimmieG. It pours a clear amber-gold with a white pillowy head. Sugary bread, apple, and an almost berry sweetness come out in the aroma. The flavor is sweet with a sugary-bubble-gum-like finish. Excellent golden ale.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20 cmillward (496) - San Francisco, California, USA - SEP 25, 2008
Draft @ redlight redlight. Pours a golden with a cream head, tons of lacing on the glass. Spicy, malty sweet, with a faint aroma of grapes, some candi sugar on the nose. In flavor, spicy, some malty sweetness, a little alcohol and more candi sugar. Slightly drying finish, smooth, low carb in the mouth. Pretty tasty.
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20 RollinHard (950) - Fort Worth, Texas, USA - SEP 21, 2008
Pours gold, clearer than I think it should be, with a large, dissipating white head. Aroma is honey, hay, grass, metal, maybe a bit of yams, and spicy hops. Tastes fairly sweet with honey, and sugar, but there’s plenty of earth, hop spice. Finishes warming with a charonnay grapey flavor and a bit of grass bitterness. Medium bodied and fairly high carbonation, but not a creamy and "together" mouthfeel by any means. Pretty unremarkable and less complex than other better examples.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20 sirpsycho (393) - Murrysville, Pennsylvania, USA - SEP 21, 2008
Bottle at the Headkeeper (Greensburg). Pours a honey gold, nice wispy white head. Aroma is sweet fruit, caramel, a little yeasty. flavor is a full bodied combination of friuit, pineapple and peach and slight caramel. Alcohol is well hidden, making this an easy to drink 10.5%.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20 Nnudd (69) - Helsinge, DENMARK - SEP 20, 2008
Bottle. Pours hazy golden colour with a thin white head. Slightly malty aroma with a little alcohol. Sweet taste with well balanced malt and alcohol, spices and big ripe fruit. Again this is a typical belgian blond ale, but this one stands out, with it’s power from the alcohol. Nice carbonation and medium mouthfeel.
3.5 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20 ucusty (2618) - Wake Forest, North Carolina, USA - SEP 17, 2008
Hazy gold pour with a thin off white head. Bouquet aroma of strong pine, fruit, and spice. Carmel green apples, citrus, bananas, and alcohol spiciness for flavors. This has a hearty maltiness and the alcohol makes itself known. Acidic, slightly tart. Very complex and enjoyable.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20 digz (10) - São Paulo, BRAZIL - SEP 16, 2008
Esta realmente define bem uma strong ale, Um aroma muito bom, floral, um toque adocicado, um oque de damascos turcos, dai seu toque frutado. Ela na taça é imponente, belissima cor, um dourado escuro e opaco, baixa carnonatação, espuma abundante, ponto positivo da cerveja, boa duração e volume, melehor, excelentes. Achei uma cerveja boa, mas é deseqquilibrada no aspecto do alcool presente, achei muito forte a presença de alcool nela, sei que são 10,5% d ea abv, mas tem cervejas com maior ou igual valor cmais equilibradas, seu paladar e persistente, o gosto de alcool fica na boca. No geral é uma boa cerveja, para ser omada no inverno, ela realmente esquenta.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20 dirt55 (198) - Washington, USA - SEP 13, 2008
on tap, sweet golden/amber body with nice thick white head, sweet aroma of malt with a welcoming alcohol note, excellent fruit/yeast combo on the palate with strong malts, feels WAY too strong despite the lack of strong alcohol flavor, could get you in trouble
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