3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
From tap at Gingerman. Pours pitch black with a small tan head. Aroma is roasted dark malt and slight vanilla. Roasted, sweet and dark malty. Bitter and dark roasted. Smooth, dark roasted malt and slight liqourice. Dark malty and roasted into the finish.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottled@Monks Café Sveavägen, Stockholm. Quite much pitch black colour, small brown head. Aroma is liquorice, toasted malts, toffee and some mild ashyness as well. Flavour is quite similar. Yet being quite balanced.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottled at Monk’s Café Wallingatan, Stockholm.
Viscous black, no head. Aroma of licorice and molasses. Full bodied with clean mouthfeel and oily malt. Roasty coffee wrapped in plastic, dipped in oily molasses and powdered with sugars. Sem pear esters come through. Warming but sticky.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle at Monks Café, Wallingatan.
Pitch black coloured with a medium sized brown head.
Roasted aroma of cocoa powder, chocolate and dried fruits with notes of rye bread.
Sweet and roasted flavour of chocolate, dried fruits and rye bread with notes of hops.
Dry roasted finish.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle. Pours a black color with a small off-white head. Has a roasted malty chocolate aroma. Roasted malty chocolate flavor with some hints of licorice. Has a roasted malty chocolate finish.
4.3 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle at Monk’s Café, Wallingatan, 45 IBU
Black color, medium creamy head. The aroma shows initially a nice cheesy touch (blue cheese), then other components appear too: caramel, roasted malt, cookies. The mouthfeel is very smooth, it has a medium body strength, good caramel and chocolate flavor, light residual sweetness and correct bitterness. Overall, a well balanced beer with a few interesting sides.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Tap @ The Ginger Man, NYC. Nice head with good duration. Color is black. Aroma and taste are roast malt, notes of bacon, chocolate and hops.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
(Bottle) Pours a black body with a small brown head. Aroma of roastiness, wood, light smoke, and nuts. Flavor of chocolate, roasted malt, and hops.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Chocolatey, hoppy, kind of low on the abv, lacking fruitiness but has no shortage of roast - like the Wellington County.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Date: 07/20/2005
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting
black with ruby highlights, scant tan head, sweet chocolate and ripe fruit aroma, thin body, a bit tart, big roasted finish, ok I guess
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Date: 04/27/2007
Mode: bottle
Source: roadtrip
Score: 2.9 to 2.6
same thin tart roasted crap, I guess I was hoping the last bottle was not a good representation but I was wrong, some ripe fruit tries to save it but way too late, picks up a smokey character after a while, some dry dark chocolate shows,
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Date: 05/19/2007
Mode: bottle
Source: tasting
Score: 2.6 to 2.9
tartness is minimized and more body in its place, rich dry dark chocolate,
Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 11/20
Rating: 2.9/5.0
Drinkability: 5/10
Score: *4
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