 vmilaxer29 (144), Virginia, USA
Dec 20, 2007 This be like Colt 45... it’ll get you f@#ed up, but unlike the Colt, at $5.50 a bottle "it’ll cost ya". A little too sweet for my liking, pours dark and amber with little head. Very sweet, and perhaps too "dessert-y" for my taste, but then again I’m not having it with dinner, I’m downing winter ales in my office, while my boss isn’t looking. Do I have a problem? Don’t worry about me.
fattibobatti (246), Tallahassee, Florida, USA
Dec 17, 2007 sampled. pours a clear amber with a thin white head. Aroma is at first overpowering fruit and alcohol combo but after a few mins breaks down into honey, dark fruit, oranges and alcohol. taste is powerful alcohol and candy, sweet sweet honey, caramel, figs. reminds me of a dessert wine in taste and smell. body isn’t syrupy but clings to the mouth. maybe its just the booze sticking around. i recommend sipping this powerful brew over some time.
robforbes (1083), Bremerton, Washington, USA
Dec 16, 2007 Updated: Dec 18, 2008old rateing:
6/3/8/4/16 - 3.7.
pour is a clear amber with little to no head, and good lacing.
smell is strong, alcohol, some spice, caramel, touch of fruit, malt, and grain.
taste is warm, thick, grain, spice, sweet, syrup, dark fruit, some caramel, and lots of malt.
overall this is very strong and gets better as it warms up.
popkow (107), New York, New York, USA
Dec 16, 2007 Bottled poor a small head that left a lightly cloudy particles behind. The color is amber but the malt is straw with average hops. The heavy alcohol taste peppers that palate with apple turning to vinegar on the palate.
MJGG (399), Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Dec 15, 2007 Updated: May 4, 2009Bouteille brune de 33 cl. Brassin de 2006. Nez dominé par un alcool puissant. Belle robe cuivrée sans aucune mousse. Peu effervescente. Goût d’alcool, de malt et de caramel. Arrière-goût d’alcool. Un bon digestif par un soir d’hiver.
highibus (421), Mill Creek, Washington, USA
Dec 15, 2007 12 oz bottle from Plaza Liquors. Shared with my neighbor. Wow, 14%, yet so smooth. Pours a deep thick mahogany with nice head. Smells of sweet esters and some alcohol. Very chewy, very viscous. Flavor is sweet malt and some biscuit. Very nice beer.
IEBAILI (123), San Diego, California, USA
Dec 13, 2007 Very pretty clear amber beer with small beige head. Smells nutty, toasty, alcoholic, warm, molasses, faintly smoky, tastes quite strong, sweet and almost brandy-like, some cola,a little bitter on the toung, lingering finish that’s too sweet for me. Aromas and flavors are attractive but in the end the alcohol and the sweetness are overwhelming. Not nearly good eneough to justify the price ($6 for 11.2oz.)
DruncanVeasey (2690), The Penguin’s Arms, Europe, Warwickshire, England
Dec 12, 2007 2007 version. On prising the cap, aromas surprisingly....well, beery, with an innocuous lagery yeastiness. Once it’s decanted, the nose really opens up with juicy orange fruit, liquorice, caramelised malt, Benelin and raisin. Froths up a bit from a height, but subsides into the headless stillness and clarity of strawberry jelly. Instantly numbing and narcotic. Slides down smoothly with the soothing wintery glow of a fortified wine. Puckeringly sweet and sherryish, but nowhere near cloying. The fruit keeps things from getting overly syrupy. Honeyed apricot and currant, liquorice, rich cakey malt, demerara and caramel to the fore. EKU 28 probably the nearest parallel. Insanely smooth, decadently malty sipper best shared. 330ml bottle from Inspire, Coventry.
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