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

330ml bottle as part of the innis and gunn xmas giftpack at the lcbo.
Amber pour, small white head. Typical innis aroma, butter, and caramel malts. I cant say im finding any rum or spice. The butter seems to die off and doesnt linger very much like past innis offerings. There is a quite sweet, and fruity finish, with a very light bitterness. But overall its pretty meh.

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

Bottle. Amber color. 7.4% on the label. Toffee, vanilla and rhum in the aroma. Malty sweet flavor with with toffee, rhum and vanilla. Just a bit of wood, but rhum dominates. Sweet, sticky, alcoholic, but mellow and well rounded.

Backlog

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

Not overly rum-like flavours, relatively tame for an innis & gunn beer. Smooth and well made though.

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

Bottle. Backlog rating from bottle collection and historic scoring. Source not recorded. No tasting notes kept, just rating.

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

Bottle at home, dark red brown beer, small head. Aroma is malt, fruit, wood. Taste is the same, metal, sweet, meh.

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

Pours dark amber from the bottle. The head is fizzy and rapidly deteriorates, soon vanishing entirely. The aroma is rum-ladened with hints of oak and vanilla - it is not, however, particularly strong. Taste is toffee sweet with a light rum kick going into the finish. Oak and vanilla round out the flavor. Palate is to the light side of medium, and a touch too thin for me. The barrel flavors are very nice, but still cannot make a great beer out of a mediocre one. Good.

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

330 ml clear bottle in cardboard box, from Vinmonopolet, Nettbutikken. BB date Sept. 2013. ABV is 7.4%. Cognac colour, slightly hazy. Small off-white head. Fairly nice sweetish aroma of spiced rum and oak, some vanilla. Nice medium sweet flavour, spiced rum, spiced stewed fruits, moderate oak and vanilla. Minimal hops, as in all Innis & Gunn beers, but here the spiciness to some degree compensates for the lack of hops. Probably the best I & G variety I’ve had so far

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

7.4% ABV: 330ml bottle. BBD Sep 15, poured into a Gordon badged thistle shaped glass at home on 6th Mar 15 during a Scottish tasting evening I had with myself. Looked lovely, clear toffee apple red/amber with a creamy head in colour and texture. Caramel and toffee nose, very malty in all aspects. I wanted to find Rum and spices but failed in the aroma. However both Rum and spices did appear in the taste, the flavour was a bit too sweet though, even for my sweet tooth, vanilla notes arriving mid-sip and adding to the sweetness, just when a hop bitterness might have calmed down the whole brew and helped to balance out the sweetness. I actually liked it a lot more than most beers I have had from these guys.