2.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
GABF 2010. Pours hazy medium brown in color with a small off-white head. The aroma is decently smoky, not bacony but smoky, with nuts and slight spiciness. The flavor is unfortunately rather uninspiring - a standard brown ale really. Nutty malt and slight caramel, just a faint hint of smoke to it and really no bacon. Slight saltiness and a little bitterness as well. Medium-bodied with average carbonation. Overall, pretty average beer. Not as good as I hoped it would be.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
(Draught at Stockholm Beer Festival, 2 Oct 2010) Dark brownish amber colour with frothy, beige head. Malty, fruity nose with apricots, orange and hints of smoke. Malty, fruity taste with notes of dried fruit, apricots, caramel and hints of smoke. Gentle spicy bitterness in the finish. Medium body, fairly sweet. The bacon part is a bit toned down, but it’s still a nice and tasty beer.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Pours a light brown with a off white head. Aroma is caramel and malt. Flavor is buckwheat, bacon and hops. Not too much bacon, perhaps not enough bacon but the buckwheat sure is interesting.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Draft at the SBWF, 2010-10-08, Nacka
AR: creamy raspberry sorbe (don’t know if it’s tru or not but that what I wrote.
AP: hazy coppper with wee head
F: metallic (aluminium), light frutiness, fine bitterness, smoke, no bacon detected!
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Draught at SBWF 2010. It poured a hazy amber-mahogny liquid with a small dirty white head. It had a deep malty flavour with a hint of salt but I couldn’t taste any bacon. Decent brown ale.
2.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
Draught at Stockholm Beer Festival. Clear amber, small head. Caramelly nose. Sweet with clean, rounded mouthfeel and solid body. Salty caramel meets molasses. Fairly low bitterness. Feels rather lifeless.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Sampled at GABF! Truly disappointed by this one..slight twist on the old school Wendy’s commercial, "Where’s the Beef?" Absolutely no bacon in this beer. No salt, no smoke, no pork, no good. Chestnut pour with a small eggshell head. Aroma of roasted malt. Flavor similar...just lacks any type of complexity. Mild nuttiness and caramel...that’s all. Medium mouthfeel.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Keg Handpump at the White Horse, Parsons Green 06/08/2010
Some fruit aroma. Amber red coloured fruity and a little rich on the palate with a hint of dryness bitterness and bacon flavour in the finish.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Draught@The White Horse, Parsons Green. Amber colour, small off-white head. Aroma is fruits, some mild wood and smoke. Mild salty notes as well. Flavour is fruits, wood, some mild spices, smild toasted notes as well as some quite sweetish maltyness.
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
2010 North American Organic Beer Festival – Portland, OR
Brown in color, clear with a thin head. Light viscous sheen on the top of the beer. I am guessing from the bacon grease. Brown roasty malt flavor then this beer has just a little life after that. Not much going for it. The Bacon was very light. This beer just did not finish for me. I would say try again.
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