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

Bottle 33 cl. Pours amber with a slight haze and a tiny, rough off-white head. Aroma is not entirely pleasant, sort of like a very boozy and cheap Sherry without refinement. The body is surprisingly thin. As so often barrel-aging can take the body out of a solid beer and in this case replace it with a rather tart liquid with no distinct rum traces. What you have left is basically a severely infected Quad with a massive dose of booze at the end. Not horrible, but no real pleasure either. 220916

8.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5

330ml bottle from trade with Omhper! Many thanks. Pours a deep mahogany, good creamy tan head. Aroma is lovely dark quad fruits and syrupy rum. Taste is smooth, rich and absolutely delicious. Well-integrated rum with boozy dark fruits and chewy malts. Glad I didn’t share this!

7.2

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

Draught. Frothy off-white good mostly deminishing head. Amber colour. Moderate malty and hoppy aroma. moderate bitter flavior. Some yeastyfruity notes. Average moderate bitter finish. Creamy palate.

6.6

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

Hazy copper with a lasting off-white head. Sweet malty and fruity aroma with sugar, molasses and caramel. Sweet malty flavour with plenty caramel and dried fruit

7.6

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

Draft. A hazy red beer with a beige head. The aroma has notes of malt, over ripe fruits, alcohol, and rum. The flavor is sweet with notes of alcohol, over ripe fruits, raisins, rum, malt, and caramel, leading to a bitter finish.

7.1

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

Bottle on the 42nd floor thanks to Colin. It pours murky deep brown with a small+ beige head. The nose is rich, oily, sweet fruits, rummy action, fruit cake, brown bread, earth, wood and warming alcohol. The taste is rich, chewy, sweet, oily, boozy, rum, fruit cake, toast, quite juicy, warming alcohol and spice. Medium - full body and moderate carbonation. Chewy, fruit and warming. A rather impressive quad. A good sipper.

7.4

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

10th November 2015
Tower 42 Tasting 2. Thanks to Cloin. Light haze on this amber beer, small tan head. Palate is airy and smooth. Modest fine carbonation. Sweet malts, light caramel - cream. Mild rum and a trace of vanilla. Pleasant ripe fruits accentuated by returning rum. Smooth semi dry finish. Pleasantly well integrated.

7.8

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

Aroma: Malty sweet with dark berries. Flavour: Sweet dark berries and roasted malt with rum and an alcoholic warmth. A dry finish. Colour: Dark reddish brown with an offwhite head. From: Tap @ Fairbar Oct. 2015