2.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 7/20
Ugh..this is awful. This is the second ESL I’ve had this week and I am picking up a theme....I don’t like them. Aroma was pretty strong (which saved this rating from the 1s) and smelled of honey, alcohol and sticky malt. Pour was a light thick gold with no head. Taste was obsurdly sweet...corn syrup, sugar, and honey with no alcohol burn and no hops to balance out this sugar water. It does hide the 9% exceptionally well as all European Strongs do. Blah. If the alcohol content is a selling point for the beer, I get skeptical. This beer had a carboard thing hanging off the neck with a big 9.0%.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
UPDATED: DEC 26, 2009 500 ml. Deep golden and clear with a medium sized head that lasts well. Aroma is honey, grain, and cream. Flavor is the same plus some slight alcohol and delicate bittering, grassy hops on the finish. Palate is nearly medium and smooth.
0.7 AROMA 1/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 1/10 PALATE 1/5 OVERALL 1/20
Bottle. Pours clear yellow, white head. Aroma is not appealing: corn syrup, alcohol, and malt. Not a good indicator of things to come. Flavor is corn, malt, alcohol (rubbing alcohol). The only thing going for this beer is its appearance. Drain pour.
1.9 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 6/20
Name: Ypac Stiprus Zaibo
Date: 09/02/2006
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting
clear golden yellow, scant white head, sweet candy malt aroma, sweet malt flavor, very little hops or bitterness
Aroma: 4/10; Appearance: 5/10; Flavor: 3/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 6/20
Rating: 1.9/5.0
Drinkability: 4/10
Score: 4
2.2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
.5 L bottle. Pours an orange color with a fizzy white head. Aroma is a bit fruity with something else unidentifiable. Upon tasting, this beer can bbe defined as a strange mix. Alcohol is extremely evident with a good biit of sweetness. This beer was worth a try but not a second purchase.
2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
Bottle. Pours an orange color with lots of fizzy bubbles that don’t leave a head or lacing after the die back. Aromas are sweet (apple juice/hard cider) with some fruit (pears, among others.) Flavor is extremely sweet and there is no effort to conceal the 9+% ABV. I think that if you mixed pear juice and acetone it would taste about like this.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottle from Belmont Party. Poured a clear golden color with an average frothy white head that diminished slowly with fair lacing. Moderate grassy hop and alcohol aroma. Medium body. Medium bittersweet flavor with a medium sweet finish of short duration. Drinkable high alcohol brew.
3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
Well, this isn’t too bad. The flavor is very strong but has a pleasant malt flavor. Don’t want to drink too much, because the alcohol tends to overpower it a bit, but it’s not bad.
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