3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Pours brown slight reddish color. Small head. Complex overall. The most noticeable (by me) aroma and flavor was apple. Crisp, medium to small body feel. Leaves a bitter-apple after tase. Nice beer over all.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
This beer was enjoyable but is quite complex...OK start that gets better and worse...? It is nice smelling and appears dark tan in the glass with some head, Enjoyable.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
The aroma has malt, brown sugar, fruit, and yeast. The appearance is hazy purple brown with a small head. The flavor is like the aroma with butter, toffee, and caramel. The palate is thin but ok for the style. I like this one!
3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Its got a real apple like flavor with a much need spices and tangy to make this a truly unique beer.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 12/20
500. Pours deep ebony, nearly to the black side of ebony at that. Big, thick, moussy, bubbly tan head. Dark fruits, dark malts, and caramel on the nose. Nice thick rich malt and peat attack and mid-palate, fair amount of caramel in there, too. Unfortunate that there’s a metallic twang on the finish--other than that, it’s a nice clean, semi-sweet finish. Not a bad beer, far from perfect, but eminently drinkable.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
UPDATED: SEP 29, 2006 Bottle. Aroma very sweet (too sweet) and monstrously fruity, malty with a little peat. Cherry, red berry, apple, light alcohol. Pours a deep red with a light brown, creamy/rocky head. Prominent lacing. Firm, solid malt foundation, ends with a little alcohol burn. Upon tasting, the various notes of fruit mingle and form something else entirely. Add a touch of acidity and a splash of sourness, mostly in the near-finish. This isn’t really a great example of style (too alcoholic, too sweet. way too malty, not dry or hoppy enough), and slightly hard to finish.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Pours a deep brown with tinges of cherry red. Frothy ivory head. Persistent lacing. Smells quite malty. Toffe and caramel, hints of plum. No hop aroma to speak of, which is odd.
Taste is very rich in toffe and dark fruit flavors. Raisin and spiced black currant. Quite fruity and quite sweet. Hops are impossible to pick out. Very sticky and rich. Not sure this is an ESB (not alot of bitter in this Extra Special Bitter) A decent enough ale though and a pretty good drinker.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 18/20
I picked this beer up at Harry’s (WholeFoods) Alpharetta. Wow, what a pour! Not what I expected. Rich dark and hazy malt with a tan fluffy head. ARoma of malt while in the pour. Glass aroma is all malt! It looks hazy thick like the muddy waters of the Thames but much darker. Slight alcohol, but wow nothing but rich malt. It tastes like a glass of malt extract. Not much bitterness to it, just enough to not make it sooo sweet. Very "old" feeling as it finishes. Get beer for this style.
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