Sonoran 100

Formerly brewed at Sonoran Brewing Company
Style: American Strong Ale
Phoenix, Arizona USA

i finally caved in and tried this at papago...bottle 401/1000.(i think, it’s kinda smudged) this is got to be the ugliest beer i’ve seen. dsnowden called it...murky brown with a weird greenish edge. scary aroma as well...like smoky multi vitamins. it nearly made me gag. after it settled for a bit the brown sugar/maple aromas starting coming out along with the smokiness, wood and alcohol. the flavor initially mirrors the aroma but soon it transforms into a strange mix of maple syrup, smoked bacon (not really smoked but with liquid smoke flavorings), teriyaki beef jerky, soy, wood and brown sugar. no carbonation and a little on the thick side. some may say full bodied or rich. lingering maple cured smoked bacon flavor won’t go away. definitely earns point for being unique....but, man is it strange...

The coolest bottle I have ever seen, bobo hooks me up again. Beer pours a murk brown, odd greenish hue around the edge, very ugly in fact. The aroma is everything I love in my dessert wines, Madiera and Sherry like aromas dominate, with some candied orange zest, the odd raisin and dried plum, the initial aroma yields to a more whisky like charecter, with notes of smoke, wood, leather and kiss of maple coming through. The aroma caused me to think that this was going to be a syrupy, perhaps disjointed mess. Boy was I wrong. The whisky side seems to dominate here, with a nice wodd component, bowing to a wisp of smoke and a touch of treacle. Alcohol is there, but only really begins to show itself on the very end of the taste, slightly warming all the way to the finish. Very impressive.

Aroma is toffee, caramel, smoke, alcohol. Taste is liquid smoke, caramel, toffee, vanilla, and oak. Easy going for 19%. Interesting brew. Good job.

(sample from irishboy)caramel color with no head.flavor and aroma are of liquid smoke,oak,caramel,and maple.alcohol is well hidden.

Bottle from cbkschubert; (bottle 157/1000) Like a 13th sake style; nose very sake like (cedar aged koshu) with oak, caramel, and smoke; translucent medium brown with absolutely no bubbles; flavor very much rice pastiness, male, and woody; alcohol absolutely covered!

Poured a clear dark amber color with no real head. The aroma had a smokey and doughy quality mixed into semi-sweet malt. There is a taste of alcohol which can be expected but not too much burn for almost 20%. The flavor was actually kind of on the bland side.

Thanks to Murray’s for the taste! Fantastic. Very oaky. The oak and maple really shine through. Incredibly drinkable for such a high alcohol beer. Hides the alcohol very well.

Date: 03/24/2007
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting

clear brown with watery edges, rich smokey maple wood aroma with light chocolate and fruit, dry maple flavor, lots of smoked bacon, light bitterness, some sweetness comes in the finish but is backed up by some bitterness,

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 13/20
Rating: 3.3/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: **+/4