 bitbucket (2031), Kirkland, Washington, USA
| 4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 3/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 17/20 |
Mar 29, 2007 2005 Bottle sampled in 2007. Pours a clear coppery amber with no head from a pretty cold pour. The aroma comes through the cold, with alcohol, raisins, toffee, apricots. The taste is like drinking sugar cookies and apricots that have been soaked in vodka. Warm and slightly spicy finish.
iowaherkeye (1851), Bakersfield, California, USA
| 3.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
Mar 29, 2007 11.2oz Bottled in 2006. So apparently I’ve never gotten around to rating this. We’re trying the freshest one I have. Pours a clear dirty orange with a minimal light yellowish head that lasts about 8 seconds. Big aroma of scorched caramel. There are also some juicy raisins, toffee, a bit of grain, and some salt. Taste is booze soaked raisins, lots of caramel and toffee, some lightly toasted grain, and lots of alcohol. For a moment there is also some lightly tart cherries. Very sweet. Alcohol almost burns the sinuses, but not quite. Light tingly carbonation with a thick syrupy body. Semidry finish. This would be a great digestif. However, one bottle is way too much for one person. Also, this is quite a bit better aged than fresh, which isn’t really news to anyone.
brianbuntz (49), Santa Monica, California, USA
| 3.4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 4/5 | 9/10 | 1/5 | 14/20 |
Mar 26, 2007 Pours a deep amber, almost brown. Quickly diminishing head. Boozy aroma with dark caramel and whiskey. Hint of citrus.
smhncabot (310), Cabot, Arkansas, USA
| 3.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 3/5 | 6/10 | 4/5 | 13/20 |
Mar 21, 2007 pours deep amber. aroma deep caramel, dark fruits, sherry, and alc. taste is what the aroma advertises and is very sweet. this isnt but jus overly sweet for me.
UselessGdTaste (363), Long Beach, California, USA
| 2.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 5/10 | 4/5 | 5/10 | 3/5 | 12/20 |
Mar 15, 2007 Oh my goodness this beer was sweet. I may as well have been eating rock candy. Now I know that it needs to have a lot of sugar to get to 14%, but at the cost of flavour? Come on. I guess it needs a good 10 years of age to make things tolerable.
kimcgolf (828), Dacula, Georgia, USA
| 2.8 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 2/5 | 5/10 | 2/5 | 13/20 |
Mar 13, 2007 I can sum this beer up in one word...SWEET. Unfortunately, that’s not "sweet" as a good thing, but "sweet" as in sugary, syrupy, sweet. The malty sweetness overwhelmed everything else in the aroma, and the 14% alcohol weighed in to make the taste and palate resemble drinking a carbonated syrup. To complete the disappointment, both the head and lacing were minimal as well.
All and all, a pretty crappy beer that I will pass on next time.
shadey (1496), Rochester, New York, USA
| 4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 18/20 |
Mar 10, 2007 2003 bottle consumed February 2007. At least three years old. Pour is a deep garnet with no head. Aroma is fruity and malty. A real mix of delicate scents. Flavor increases the number of complexities. Body is thick and heavy. This is a beautiful winter beer in the old world style.
shintriad (698), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| 3.5 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 13/20 |
Mar 10, 2007 Beauteous copper with zero head; thin pour. Medium-dry vineous notes betray the shock of sugar-sweetness that blasts your taste buds right away, with a cognac-like finish, maybe some orange rind. Impossible to notice the alcohol unless you pay close attention. Far too sweet for my tastes, but exotic and tasty, if lacking in nuance. Thin and a bit slick, very flat...perhaps it wasn’t aged right? I’ll encounter this again someday, I’m sure.
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