3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle at the DISOB tasting, Den Haag. Poured a clear copper colour with a glass hugging white head. The aroma is rich and alcoholic. The flavour is big bitter and alcoholic. It’s sweet on the palate too and probably tastes like a 19th century Wild West elixir!
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle shared at the "Dean’s scared of beer tasting". Pours clear amber with no head. Aroma of caramel, overripe fruits, gravy, candy, butterscotch. Flavor is heavy sweet. Full bodied with soft carbonation.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle shared at the "Dean’s scared of beer tasting" 2008 vintage from my beer cellar.
No head of carbonation. Clear golden pour. Lovely brew. Very nice.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle @ ABCBeers, Dean’s scared of beer tasting. Vintage 2008. Hazy copper pour with floaties. Aroma of madeira, honey, alcohol, malty and loads of sugar. Flavor is very full, warming and ripe fruits. Loads of malts. Quite smooth brew, lovely aged.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
December 2009. Bottle. Aromas are malty and fruity. Color is amber with a thin white head. Flavors are light fruit, alcohol and malts. Good balance.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
A cleaner tasting Sami. Rounded, fruity, sweet, viscous. Very moreish. Highly drinkable for 14%.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle. Golden colour with a white head. Aroma is sweet, malt, sugar, alcohol. flavour is sweet, malt, sugar, alcohol, oxidation. Full body. Nice beer.
4.3 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
Really interesting beer. Pours a reddish brown with a creamy white head. Notes of yeast, malt, and dried fruit on the nose. Very complex flavor with lots of yeast and dried fruit notes. So much going on! Warming too with the 14% abv not overly boozy though, well hidden. Solid beer, I’ll definitely be having this one again.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle. Clear golden colour with just a hint of white head that quickly vanishes. Strong aroma of alcohol, vanilla, malt. Flavour is strong, dried fruit, vanilla, well masked alcohol. Well balanced and really good.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle at home.
Clear yellow, no head. Arome heavy malty (caramel, light fruit), alcohol. Flavor almost heavy sweet, some alcohol, well balanced by a medium bitterness. Full body, quite thin, lot’s of warming alcohol.
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