3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
12 oz. bottle. This is dark brown with caramel highlights. A nice thick tan head lasts. A very sweet brown sugar and malt nose. The flavor hete is not demure. A big malt backbone and significant bitterness. It s quite sweet and the alcohol is noticeable. There is dark fruit. If there are subtleties they are buried by the taste bud assault. This is over done beyond measure. A few ounces is more than enough for me.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 14/20
Pours a thick dark brown, smells and tastes more like a barleywine than an ipa. Not a bad beer but more of a novelty. The flavor is exactly what one would expect from the alcohol content.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
This brew pours a dark copper-amber color with a medium light beige head that recedes steadily. Stringy lacing on the glass. Aroma of citrusy hops and malt. Rich and nearly syrupy body with a sweet malty character punctuated by citrus, hops and a bit of earth. The finish is moderately bitter hops with a lingering malt aftertaste. Blurs the line between an IIPA and a Barley Wine. Above average regardless.
3.4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Pour is a thick dark brown with a large tan head. Aroma is oily hops with some sugar and caramel malts. Flavor is more malty than hoppy. Some chewy caramel malts with molasses and maybe some vanilla toward the end. Alcohol is no problem, its there just not over the top. I agree with most raters on here that this is more of a barleywine than a IIPA.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle at Bishops Arms, Skövde. Amber beer with a nice beige head. Hoppy vinous aroma. Hop flavor but also wuite vinous and malty. More like a barley wine, than an IPA. Alchocol shows but is rather well hidden.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottled at Bishops Arms Skövde. Pours hb with a big brown head. Smells hoppy, abit nutty and alcohol. Tastes rich hoppy, alcohol, abit malty and abit sweet with a similar finish.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
If this is an IPA than Matt Berkowitz isn’t of the jewish race... and he most certainly is. Pretty good barley wine. Nice dark fruit notes.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle shared by nuplastikk...thanks Greg! - Reddish brown pour with a thin wispy tan head. Piney, grassy hops--pungent with a big malty base. The barley wine comparisons are apt here. The hop profile is grassy and piney as hell, but there’s a ton of malt here as well--nutty and dark bread. Pretty big and smooth...not terribly carbonated.
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