3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle. Reddish orange pour with a small creamy head. I can smell the booze. Caramel and malt dominates the flavor. Nice brew!
2.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
Bottled. Hazed orange with tan head. Aroma is fruity and very malt dominated. A really great nose on this one. Flavor is also complex, fruity and lightly bitter. Booze is big and bad in this beer and after it warms up watch out... You’ll be left with something o so unpleasant. I’d rather drink warm vodka (and I hate vodka). Keep it cold or else.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Pours a reddish brown color. Aroma is sweet like molasses! Taste is a bit like brown sugar with alcohol very present in after taste. Strong!
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
(bottle) Pours a light reddish-brown with a barely existent off-white head that rings around the snifter. Aroma is definitely a large dose of booze, and the 11.9% really shows up in a big way. Other aromas include booze-soaked candied prunes and raisins subjected to the same treatment. Dried strawberries and a certain spiciness (potentially cinnamon) is also present, but it takes some digging to get to. Pumpkin pie and butterscotch pudding. Light whiffs of bread from the yeast character, but it’s really tramped down by the alcohol here. Taste is full of dried cherries, raisins, candi sugar, sweet roll, and some cinnamon as well. Gets a bit medicinal and cloying over time. Mouthfeel is thick, carbonation is low, and this finishes obnoxiously dry and burns from the alcohol. This is really one mess of a beer.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
On tap at Weyerbacher. This was pretty nice, soft mouthfeel, moderate alcoholic character, grapey ripe fruitiness. Wanted to pick up some bottles of it to lay down, but they were only offering growlers at the time. Quite nice, would drink again.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
12 oz bottle from the Four Firkins. Pours a dark reddish/brown color with about a finger of white head. Sweet, dark fruit aromas. Rich flavors of dark fruits with a thick mouthfeel. Finish is a bit boozy but not overwhelming at all.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Decent quad. Has a funny bourbon sweetness on the nose, with plenty of dark fruits. Flavor is nice and smooth, but has a weird hoppiness and bitterness which doesn’t really fit the style. Finish has a strange smokiness, which is nice, but also surprising. Not bad.
2.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 2/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 10/20
Orange pour. Very good looking brew. Nose and taste is strong alcohol, banana, vanilla and sugar. Rated 5/20/04
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