4.6 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 19/20
Minibottle (handbottle) kindly shared by omhper on the bus back home from the Björntasting. Deep brown colour, no head. Big time raisin/plum as well as some caramel and alcohol in the aroma. Mild coffee and roasted malts as well. Flavour is rather much the same with liquorice being in a rather strong role. Some mild spicy burning notes as well. Cool enough the alcohol isn’t burning that much in this one.
4.5 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 19/20
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.
4.4 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
Tried from bottle at 2009 Stone Sour Fest. Sweet. Black color. Alcohol well hidden for almost 20%. Excellent! I love sweet!
4.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 17/20
Wow, Scott sure can brew some interesting beer. The 19.5% alcohol is masked by the maple sweetness. The sweetness is balanced not so much by hops but by a smokey flavor given to it by the toasted oak chips I believe. It is similar to Sam Adams Utopias or Triple Bock, but better. With as much alcohol as it has I think it will keep for years. Still a sipping beer like a cognac, not a gulping monster.
4.2 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle… O-Town Throwdown Part Tres... This beer rocks!… Murky burnt orange ale with no head. The nose is an intoxicating whirlwind of woodsy, smoky notes with a big whiskey blast. I’m picking up both Scotch and bourbon with a touch of diacetyl. The complex flavor is a swirl of essences; sweet whisky, wood, caramel, plum and molasses. Boozy and surprisingly well-bittered… despite all its malts and sugars, this brew actually leans toward the bitter side of balance. Full-bodied with a coarse, watery mouthfeel and no carbonation. Finishes alcoholic and dry. I’m going against the grain here, but I absolutely loved my sample. Thanks boboski!
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 17/20
[169/10120] Poured a clear, dark copper color with no head, poured still, decent legs. Aroma of maple, honey, vanilla, nuts, and caramel. Taste was sweeter, maple, brown sugar, caramel, nuts, with a drier smoke, oak, and a bit of roast, before finishing warm. Extremely chewy mouthfeel, thanks Steve.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle at Papsø’s - Thanks. Clear deep reddish/brown - no head. Sweetness, raisins, fruity, dried fruits, light alcoholic, light dryness, bitterness, vineous, high malty, caramel, light smokey, light wooden/oakey notes.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle At Cole’s Rare Beer Fest, January 2009. I think this varies from bottle to bottle - I know jerc and rudolf rated from a different bottle than my sample. Poured MURKY - thick, cloudy deep brown, smallish head - but I love non-clear beer - looked fantastic to me. Sweet, lightly smokey aroma, lushly nutty, not too boozy - really reminded me a lot of the Apis Jadwiga, definitely honey in there. The taste seemed drier, more alcohol-forward - buckwheat honey, seriously roasted malt, some balancing herbal bitterness, decidedly alcoholic, but to my palate very well balanced - quite warming. Thick, still mouthfeel, slightly alcohol-dry and astringent, with a long, sweet malty finish - sooooo good ("ham"? HAM? - you must have had a different bottle) ... only minor quibble, I’d like the herbal character to last a little longer, but I’d buy a bottle of this in a heartbeat.
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