6.5

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5

Canned 01/31/20. Not a big fan. Dark brown, sliver of creamy brown foam. Smells of cinnamon mostly. Taste is heavy cinnamon, and a hint of raisin. Lactose adds smoothness but not overdone, at least. Cinnamon overpowers all complexity of Maduro. Pity.

6.5

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

355ml can bought at Vinmonopolet Langnes. Close to clear dark brown body, clingy lacing from a slowly diminishing beige head. Prominent cinnamon on the nose, doughy and lightly roasted. Flavour mix of spiced malts, dried fruits and suggestions of vanilla sweetness. The cinnamon-malty part lingers on to the ending. Pleasing to a certain degree. (Tromsø 14.07.2020).

8

CO 31/01/20;Quite convincing aroma for a brown ale clocking just at 5.5% abv;festive bread with sweet-tart raisins & mild cinnamon, toasted bread, sweet bread crust, mild oatmeal, hints of roasted malt associating at barley coffee, moderate sweetness

6.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Drukket på Bergstua. Mørkebrun. Lavt lysebrunt skum som forsvinner fort. Veldig beskjeden rosinaroma. Smaken fruktkake. Lett krydderpreg i avslutninga.

6.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Day 8 of our Florida trip due to the virus lockdown from at home. 12 fl. oz. can from Beer Republic. A darkest red brown in the glass, nearly two finger creamy beige head. Definitive cinnamon sugar cookies on the nose. Taste starts also with sugar sweet cinnamon, alcoholic raisin and Gewürzkuchen. Little bit sticky. Low malty to the end. Maybe getting heartburn after a second can ...

7.2

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

Can from Beer Republic, Breda, Netherlands, consumed at home Attenkirchen, sat outside at home Attenkirchen Saturday 11th April 2020, weather is glorious, however we are now into day 24 of CORVID-19 enforced lockdown, cooking sausages and potatoes in the wood oven and listening to Craig Charles Funk and Soul Show on 6Music. Pours dark brown with a tan coloured head. A little spice on the nose (cinammon) with chocolate and dried fruit, demerara sugar. In the mouth it's a decent brown with just a little twist with the aforementioned aromas displayed again here along with some maltiness, overall it's a little sweet, however it's pretty decent.

7.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 8

Brown ale with lactose (a rare adjunct in this style) flavoured with raisins, cinnamon and vanilla, from Florida's leading craft brewery, now under the CANarchy collective (along with Oskar Blues, Perrin and a few others). Medium thick, greyish beige, membrane-lacing, small-bubbled head, well retaining around the edge and dissipating into a greyish veil in the middle, over a lightly hazy, deep mahogany brown beer with ruby red glow. Very pungently 'desserty' aroma: pan-fried sweet apples covered in brown sugar and cinnamon powder the way my grandmother used to prepare them, raisin cake, red fruit crumble, vanilla as applied in a freshly baked muffins, hints of freshly ground nutmeg, cloves, brownies, ground pecan nuts, hard caramel, faint whiffs of iron, dry tree leaves, tea and acorn shells. Sweet onset but not in a cloying way and surrounded by a sourish edge, rather spritzy with fruity notes of cranberry, blackberry, pear and red apple, lively carbonated; smooth, slick mouthfeel, a tad metallic on its edges and a bit on the thin side for a brown ale, even at this ABV (strangely the announced lactose does little to add sweetness and even less to add creaminess - I guess it has been used sparsely). Very pecan nut-, cocoa powder-, Pumpernickel bread- and caramel-like middle though in a very smooth, somewhat resinous way; sweetish maltiness with a bittering toasty tail (though gently so), aromatized to a high degree by the cinnamon, again - combined with the fried red apple aspect - reminding me of my grandmother's kitchen... Raisins add a sourish hint in the end, while the vanilla remains noticeable, but less so than expected based on its more obvious presence orthonasally. Wet-toast-like bitterish finish sprinkled with cinnamon, but also with nutmeg- and clove-like hints; hops add a herbal, tea-ish late bitterness, but the raisin cake- and crumble-like effects remain firmly in place, aromatically suggesting sweetness while the actual flavour does end bitter, even a bit coffeeish. Hybridization is one of the key aspects in modern craft brewing, to the extent that traditional beer styles often get blurred; this one is very clearly influenced by the pastry stout hype, but acts out this influence in a proportionally subtle way, so that the whole beer does remain firmly rooted in the American brown ale tradition. I love a good Anglo-Saxon brown ale (American or English) every now and then but this old beer family got snowed under a bit by other styles in the past one or two decades, so I can accept this 'dessert' interpretation as a way to draw more attention to it from younger beer geeks. Expected a bit more creaminess, but it sure answers to all expectations, both on the general American brown ale level and the 'pastry' aspect, even if the vanilla could have (again) been a bit more outspoken for me.

7

12 fl.oz can. A clear dark reddish brown beer with a beige head. Aroma of raisins, cinnamon, dark red malt, caramel. Taste of dark Red malt, caramel, raisins, nuts. Nice!

8

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

Can from Systembolaget LIllänge. Cinnamon was really overpowering in the smell. Beautiful dark colour. Very easy drinking, sweet.

7.8

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Nearly opaque, thin beige head. Smells of malty dries fruit. Flavour is dried fruit, chocolate, coffee. Not lots of complex flavour but hefty flavour, and that's more than adequate. Lovely stuff, rich and smooth with a good hit to it.