Ofortuna (322), Grafton, Wisconsin, USA
| 4.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 9/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 17/20 | May 8, 2008 2006 bottle. Holy aroma! Like Christmas in a glass. Gingerbread, allspice, nutmeg, cinnamon and anise. Dark and very opaque in colour. Wonderful mouthfeel, very creamy and silky smooth.Very well executed. After drinking for awhile everything does become just slightly too much. Don’t know if I could drink this all night, but it’s certainly not intended as a session brew. Nice layers of complexity throughout. A great sipper and perfect after-dinner brew. WinoInTraining (104), Longmont, Colorado, USA
| 4.3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 9/10 | 5/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 17/20 | May 5, 2008 Dark as midnight on a moonless night. Seductive and layerd. Nose: coco, cherry, tootsie roll, tropical, oh yeah! Palate: deep and dark, cranberry/banana bread. Super layered. Integrated alcohol. Well done! joshwilfong (776), Cleveland, Ohio, USA
| 4.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 18/20 | May 4, 2008 pitch black with tan head. incredibly complex flavor of raisons, toffeee, caramal with some subtle alcohol complexity but very well tolerated. amazing beer austone (1036), Turku; Pori, Finland
| 4.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 9/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 17/20 | May 4, 2008 2006 bottle. Dark brown with thick and big head. Amazing lace. Nose is coconut, pineapple, cherry wine, calvados, slightly port vinous and alcoholic. Quite exotic. Flavor has dried fruits, ripe banana, port wine, almond, roasted malts and slight dash of hops. A bit of everything, but still somehow restrained. Strong, but warming alcohol. Bittersweet and tannic palate. Medium to full bodied, smooth enough carbonation. Sounds amazing, but overall a bit too alcoholic. So we’ll meet again in a couple of years, some sunny day. MaltOMeal (652), Land of Sugar, Texas, USA
| 4.7 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 9/10 | 5/5 | 9/10 | 5/5 | 19/20 | May 3, 2008 2006 bottle. Pours dark with huge tan head. Great lacing. The smell was of bread, vinous fruit and spices. Taste was of spices, bread, vinous and other dark fruit. Mouthfeel was medium and very smooth with slight carbonation and slight bitterness up front, but not at the finish. This was complex waves of flavors and mouthfeel that was luxurious to the senses. Fantastic! blutt59 (2091), Dallas, Texas, USA
| 4.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 17/20 | May 3, 2008 bottle, 2006 vintage, decent light brown head, very fruity with tastes of raisins, espresso and malty sugars, not overpowering plovmand (1603), Helsinge, Denmark
| 4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 9/10 | 4/5 | 17/20 | May 3, 2008 2006 bottle. Pours dark brown with nice pearly light brown head. In nose plenty of prunes and other dark fruits. I catch coffee and herbal stuff here too. Creamy smooth mouthfeel. Fantastic spicy taste of brown sugar mixed with dark fruits. End up with the warmth from the alcohol. mar (1800), Dallas, Texas, USA
| 3.8 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 5/5 | 6/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 | May 2, 2008 2006 bottle courtesy of Bhops. deep chocolate brown with a thin cream head. dried fruits, malts, alcohol and brown sugar on the nose. incredibly smooth and the flavors are all over the place from roasted malts to fruits.
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