6.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Sweet little 275ml bottle. Pours out a dark amber with no head this bad boy is flat. Nose is great like rich tawny port or even some earthy mead lots of pit fruit notes. Taste on the other hand is supper earthy old dead hops cardboard along with some pit fruit.

10

Amazing.

5.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle@Himmeriget, Copenhagen (29/07/2016) - Amber pour with almost no head. Aroma and taste is very sweet malty, rather oxidised, light vinegar, dried fruit, brown sugar, as it is now its just about OK, but would of loved to try this some years back.

4.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

2nd go. The first bottle was a big fail.

It pours a hazy orange w with no foam and, duh, no lacing.

Age has taken an obvious toll on the beer’s smell and I’m sure taste. Smell is of vinegar, which isn’t so bad, but there’s a chemical like aroma that is very off putting.

Taste IS better. Loaded with the vinegar sourness, gots some soy, and way way deep in the background, the slightest hint of what this may have tasted like. ..an Old Ale?

Light bodied with "some" carbonation.

I fully blame the crumbly cork for not protecting the contents. :^(

5.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Bottle sample at a tasting at Dancing Camel Florentin. Thanks zvikar. Bad cork, broke while opening the bottle. Hazy dark orange. Aroma of vinegar and fruits. Sourish flavor with vinegar, fruits and light sweetness. Medium-bodied, kinda flat. Didn’t age very well - infected. Still not that bad.

6.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle from Charleston Beer Exchange. It pours golden amber with pretty much no head. The nose is mellow, damp wood, mustiness, dull sourness, faint vinegar, peach, apricot, vanilla and coconut. The taste is smooth, earthy, wood, peach, apricot, nectarine, light sourness, wood, hay, spice and alcohol warmth towards the finish. Medium body and low carbonation. Easy-going stuff. I actually quite like the aged and sour aspect to this! Interesting and fun to try.

5

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Bottle, 275 ml, tasted with Luc Bourbonnière, savoured November 5 2009; eye: dark caramel, no effervescence, no head, no lacing; nose: Madeira, stale, light dark fruits, light molasses; mouth: thin, stale, Madeira, light molasses, light dark fruits, thin and watery finale in Madeira and molasses, not much carbonation, light body; overall: ordinary FRANÇAIS Bouteille, 275 ml, bue avec Luc Bourbonnière, savourée le 5 novembre 2009; œil : caramel foncé, pas d’effervescence, pas de mousse, pas de dentelle; nez : madère, éventée, léger fruits noirs, léger mélasse; bouche : mince, éventée, madère, léger mélasse, léger fruits noirs, finale mince et aqueuse en madère et mélasse, pas de carbonatation, corps léger; en résumé : ordinaire

7.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Large yeast deposit floating in the glass. If you can get past that, it’s quite good. Dark molasses pour. No head. Sweet taste. What you’d expect from the genre. Rated 4/18/10

5.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5

2001 vintage. An anemic brown ale with almost no head. In aroma, oxidized malt with a bit of soy sauce, dark fruits, not bad. In mouth, a rather lifeless and oxidized ale with notes of madera, licorice, and light molasses, very thin and tired. Tasted Nov. 5 2009 with GRM and Mike H.

7.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle 27,5 cl. Slightly hazy amber golden with a tiny, rough, off-white head. Aroma of fruit and caramel with a tart edge. Medium body, completely flat, notes of white wine and a whiff of Brett and perhaps a little wood. Warming alcohol in the finish, slightly leathery but no bitterness as such. Very interesting - and classic Gales. 120709