3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle. Medium high fluffy light brown head. hazy red body. Aroma of barley malt berries and bread. Relatively bitter salt and pepper flavor with grapefruit notes. Low carbonation. Long bitter aftertaste.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle. Pours a clear amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty hoppy aroma with some weak hints of caramel. Fruity malty bitter hoppy grapefruit flavor. Has a fruity malty hoppy bitter finish.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
2006 bottle purchased at Shorts (as a medical student, I was intrigued by its name :-) ). Pours a dark murky brown-red with a small tan head. Aroma of sweaty, grassy hops, caramel malt. Flavor of lots of caramel and toffee malts. Overall, quite malty as is to be expected from this aged beer, but it still is pretty good.
7/4/7/4/14 [3.6/5]
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle at ’08 DLD. Big sticky pine nose, some caramel and cereal malts. Moderately sweet, moderately bitter, lots of spruce and pine, some citrus, lots of toffee. Decent stuff.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottled. Deep bloodred ambery colour, thick creamy off-white to beige head. Aroma is sweet plum, some caramel malts, mild spices, red berries and fruits. Flavour is spices, floral and fruity hops along with some berries, spruce and also some sweet maltyness. Bitter, semidry palated finish. Interesting and rather drinkable.
3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bomber, purchased at the brewpub in August. A medium amber coloured body, with generous off-white head. A full mouthfeel. Complex malting, the aroma is malty, with a tad of hops. The taste includes orange. A long finish and pleasant aftertaste.
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Tasted 10/29/09. 750ml bottle. #254/780. Mildly hazy with a brown amber hue. Webbed off-white head. Aromas of hops and berries, with a touch melon and citrus. Bright nose! Rather full bodied with a nice bitterness. Lotta nice hop flavors. Dry bitter finish. Mildly yeasty and doughy; just enough to offset the bitter. Takes the edge off. Well done.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
courtesy of the Shorts tasting night group. early ’07 bottle.
bottle#575
pours golden-reddish haze with beige head.
Aroma is mainly of citrus hops, a big hoppy nose that is surprisingly strong for an ’07 bottle.
Flavor, lots of citrus, grapefruit and strong hoppy presence as well as a light bitter finish.
Malt profile is there with hints of caramel but remains overshadowed by a ton of hops.
Not bad, but my least favorite beer of this 13 beer serie.
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