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

Draught@Omnipollos Hatt. Hazy brown colour with a small foamy off-white head. Aroma is caramel, some toasted tones with mild sea buckthorn and a bit rye. Flavour is quite much folliwing that pattern, but ends up a bit out of balance. OK, but nothing to write home about.

6.5

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

On tap at MBCC Yellow Session. Pours a cloudy brown with small beige head. The aroma is rye, caramel, toasted grain. Slick body, raisin, caramel, rye, light dry finish, good.

6.5

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

Draught @ MBCC'18 [ Yellow Session ]. - Mikkeller Beer Celebration Copenhagen 2018, Øksnehallen, Halmtorvet 11, 1700 København V, Danmark. [ As BRUS / Põhjala Baltic Jammin ].Murky matt medium to dark amber colour with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, sweet malt, pale malt, caramel, spicy, dusty, rye, caraway (kommen). Flavor is moderate sweet with a long duration, herbal, spicy, caraway, dusty, caramel, rye - rye bread, light citric - seabuckthorn. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20180511] 7-2-7-3-14

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7.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 6.5

Imperial brown ale with rye, buckthornberries and caraway, tasted from tap at Omnipollo's Hatt, thanks Goedele for sharing! Densely creamy, pale yellowish white, stable, membrane-lacing head over a cloudy caramel brown beer with ruddy hue and some clouds of 'yeast milkiness'. Aroma of toffee, brownies, nutmeg-like spiciness and indeed subtle caraway seed, dry tree leaves, diluted coffee grounds, butterscotch candy, tea, dried figs, sweet summer flowers, nut shells and only very faint berry presence from the sea buckthorn. Sweetish onset, ripe pear and fig notes with a very subtle sourish note - in fact much more subtle than expected, since sea buckthornberries tend to be quite acidic and astringent; softly carbonated, creamy and slick mouthfeel. Hard caramel maltiness, only restrainedly sweetish, nutty with toasty bitterish edge matching well with the caraway spiciness, some herbal hop bitterishness merging with this combo as well, but the maltiness with nutty (or even nut shell) character remains predominant; the creaminess remains till the very end. I do not get the point of the sea buckthorn here: if any berries were used at all, their presence is very subtle and this would have been a perfectly fine imperial brown ale without them. The caraway, on the other hand, does add a pleasant, 'different' spiciness but the caramelly, creamy and nutty brown ale character remains the key factor here. Very enjoyable.

6.1

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

keg at mikkeller 2018 yellow.. murky brown.. Thin white tan lacing... Soft sweet toffee fruit nose.. Long sweet caramel toffee fruit

5.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

On tap at Omnipollos Hatt. A bit hazy dark brown with a small tan head. A bit tart with dark bread, caramel, grain and light berries. The body was on the light side. Drinkable but nothing special.

6.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5

Tap at BRUS. Murky brown colour, small beige head. Tartish caramalt, bready aroma. Medium-bodied. A bit watery for its abv. Bready notes, citric seabucketthorn, breadyness. Interesting but one shot only beer.

6.8

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

Tap@MBCC 2018 Yellow Session, Copenhagen - dark brown coloured pour with off-white head. Sweet and toasted malty with some notes of cereal, grain, dark bready malt, some caramel, medium body, malty finish.

6.9

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

Keg at MBCC 2018 Yellow (session Juan), 11/05/18. Rich mahogany brown with a decent beige cap. Nose is toffee crisp, nutty, fruit loaf. Taste comprises caramel, dried fruits, brown bread, toffee, ligt spice. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close. Ok.