Anniversary X Ale
North Coast Brewing Company in Fort Bragg, California, United States 🇺🇸
Traditional Beer - Old Ale Special Out of Production|
Score
6.85
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle courtesy of ygtbsm94, thank you once again. Port wine and vinegar. This one was a bit too old.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Rated May 2013. Woodshed 2.0. Big thanks to StFun for shipping me this. I have been wanting to try this for years and years. It pours with a mahogany colored body that’s fairly clear and supporting a tan head of foam. The aroma emits soft smooth agedness with wet tobacco, earthiness, sweet ripe yet muted cherry meat, wet leather and smooth sort of berry like sherry earthiness. The taste is similar with smoothness and a bit thin on the palate too. It softly delivers smooth muted cherry and ripe red apple esters as well as molasses covered wet tobacco to midway. Into the finish it gets to be a bit cherry somewhat oxidized oldness. I love how this has aged. Great experience.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
750ml bottle pours a translucent, deep ruby amber with very little, spitty white head. Nose is nice, caramel, brown sugar, a little cardboard, some oxidation, malty, apples, rum, coconut. Flavor is sweet, caramel, a little metallic, brown sugar, malty, a touch of orange. Medium bodied, slick finish.
bb (18337) reviewed Anniversary X Ale from North Coast Brewing Company 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Tofee colored beer with little head. Oxidized and past its prime, but aroma of caramel and light sherry. Toffee flavor with some dried fruit and sherry notes. Medium-light body. Oxidized notes linger with some caramel/toffee and a litle earthiness.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
This is another retired rarity that I got to enjoy at kp’s cellar party. White head that quickly slipped down into the murky brown below. Complex brown sugar caramel aroma. Lightly sweet compared to what the aroma had me prepared for, thinner than I anticipated as well. I think someone told me it was a barleywine. It’s very suitable as an Old Ale.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Deep ruby-red body, thin off-white head. The aroma opened with strong caramels, prune, and raisin, becoming oaky over a couple minutes. Toasty. Caramel, prunes, and breads dominated the flavor profile, muted woody notes and sulfuric tones were also present. Still carbonated, though a bit soft and past its prime. "Dead yeast and the dirty glass..." Not bad, but I didn’t like this as well as the other raters did.