4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Pretty good drink but I am a rogue fan. Think this will be a real god summer time hot weather drink.
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3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Gold pour with creamy white head. Aroma of sweet malt and earthy hops. Flavor is sweet malt, pepper, and a decent flat bitter. Medium bodied but a tad foamy.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Tasted in 2010 (backlog). Gold in color with a good sized off-white head. Aroma is of wood, malt and caramel. Taste is of whiskey, light vanilla, oak and malt.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Aroma is very subtle, with whiskey notes. Dark amber colored. Very sweet with whiskey notes along with the classic dead guy flavor.
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3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Poured a cloudy amber color with a huge and frothy white head. Aroma is tobacco, honey, oak, raisin, caramel, cereal, and faint licorice. Taste is raisin, honey, green wood, grass, with an almost red wine-like dry finish. Interesting, but I like the original better.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
22 oz bottle served in a St. Bernardus snifter.
A: The beer is hazy orange-amber in color. It poured into my snifter with a head barely thick enough to cover the ale that quickly died down to a thin partial film over the surface and a thin ring around the edge of the glass.
S: Moderately strong aromas of malts, whiskey and wood in the somewhat fruity nose. Interesting and complex, although not a perfect mix in my nose.
T: The flavor is better than the aroma, with a solid malt/barley base, beer is quite malty and notes of wood and whiskey from the barrel aging process. Hints of yeast, spicy and herbal hops, honey and dark fruits are also present in the taste.
M: On the high side of medium-bodied with a very good, low-moderate amount of carbonation. Quite smooth with nearly no alcohol harshness.
O: A rich and complex ale I enjoyed quite a bit despite having no particular fondness for whiskey. The whiskey barrel aging adds a good level of wood and whiskey to the aroma and flavor.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
From notes. 22oz bottle courtesy of Erik and Eva. Poured a cloudy brown with a slight foamy head. Aromas of malts and funky yeast. Strong alcohol, nice flavours of dark fruits, figs and raisins and slight, but noticeable sour notes.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Hazy amber/orange color; Medium slightly creamy body; Aroma of caramel malt, fruit, & hops; Flavor of sweet malt, oak, caramel, hops, and fruit; Slight alcohol at the finish; Nicely balanced; Overall, a little subdued - but nice take on the original.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
Tasted from the bottle @George and dragon, Barcelona,in June 2012.
Quite unusual, strange taste - almost-a-barleywine?..
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3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
UPDATED: DEC 28, 2012 Draft at Moriartys. Hazy brown pour. Not sure what I was expecting but this was not it. Getting a lot of funky sour notes. Like a flemish sour with some dark caramel malt flavors. Raisins. Whiskey oak barrel notes as well. Pungent brown sour. Only a handful of other reviews here are noting the sour element - so either this beer has turned or varies greatly keg to keg. Bizarre, but I am up for it!
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