Nero's 1st Century Double Dark Malt Ale
Trader Joe's in Monrovia, California, United States 🇺🇸
Brewed at/by: Birra AmarcordBock - Doppelbock Regular Out of Production
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Score
6.15
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5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Thin palate. Bock aroma with caramel and a dy malt flavor with alcohol. Thin palate.
Tried
on 25 Mar 2013
at 20:28
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
500ml bottle from Trader Joes Bakersfield. Nose is ripe bananas, sweet caramel, and a hint of molasses. Clear redwood brown with a medium, heavy lacing, beige head. Flavor is slightly sweet with moderate molasses. Actually a good dopplebock for 1.99.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Feb 2013
at 22:02
6.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Banana and graham cracker nose, some plastic notes. Cloudy copper, thin head. Caramel dominated flavor with apple and berry accents. Not tart. A bit chemical. Light body, fizzy. Kind of cheap, but not awful.
Tried
on 01 Feb 2013
at 19:12
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cool 50cl swing top bottle pours a deep ruby red amber-ish sort of color with a thin tan head of foam. The aroma offers up raisin, spiced red apple wedges and some hazel nut like nuttiness. The taste is similar as it puts out a mix of raisins, cherries and spiced red apples as well as a bit of roasted malts and nuttiness. Interesting estery and also nearly astringent maltiness at times.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Jan 2013
at 20:41
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Pours deep amber into a snifter. Off-white head with medium retention recedes to mottle surface. Sour caramel and pit fruit aromas. Soft with dark caramel and sweet toffee upfront turning to pit fruit before the lasting stale malt finish.
Tried
on 02 Jan 2013
at 14:58
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Pours a dusty gold color under a tall, off-white head. The aroma is slightly sweet and floral. The flavor is sweet on the front with some bitterness towards the back. Maybe a hint anise in there.
Tried
on 30 Oct 2012
at 15:04
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
500 ml ceramic swing-top bottle from Trader Joe’s. Rich orange copper color topped by a medium sized foamy beige head. Caramel grainy toasted malt nose. Bittersweet dried fruit malt flavor. Herbal hops with notes of raisins and alcohol. Sweetish candi sugar prescence? Interesting and different.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Aug 2012
at 18:47
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Half liter swingtop from Trader Joe’s Glen Allen, VA. Pours a clear amber color with a large fizzy off-white head. Decent head retention. Aroma of floral notes, stone fruits, citrus and caramel. The taste is caramel malts, candied fruits and very faint hops. Medium bodied, a little one note and too sweet.
Tried
from Can
on 31 Jul 2012
at 21:58
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottle, pours a clear dark amber with a small off-white / beige head. Aroma of toasted nuts, caramel, vegetal notes, biscuity malts - very German smell. Flavour of bananas, clove, toasted nuts, toffee and some vegetal notes. Thin palate with not much complexity. Not too bad though.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Jun 2012
at 18:10
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
500ml corked bottle, Trader Joes action. Amber-tan, thin steady creaky off-white head. Sweet, nutty caramel aroma, cheap and unpleasant. Completely unspectacular, this tastes like a cheap Eastern European beer. Sweet malt tones, underlying pungent yeast tones, but pretty subdued. I feel like a jerk for paying 5 bucks for this Italian fraud.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Apr 2012
at 22:25