Once Upon a Time, November 15th, 1901, KK
Pretty Things Beer and Ale Project in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Brewed at/by: Buzzards Bay BrewingTraditional Beer - Old Ale Regular Out of Production
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Score
7.48
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Once upon a time, on Friday, November 15th, 1901, an Edwardian brewer stepped into a London brewhouse and brewed a beer that confounds expectations many years later. An ale darker than most Porters that uses more hops than a modern IPA. Thanks once again to the talents of brewing historian, Ron Pattinson, we can reproduce this moment in time from the original brewday document. This ‘KK’ beer is brewed with several pale malts, brown malt, caramelized brewing sugars and two classic English hop varieties, Bramling Cross and Kent Goldings.
O.G. 1.075, 7.8% ABV.
O.G. 1.075, 7.8% ABV.
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6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Black with a small head. Aroma of hops, licorice, malt and spices. A difficult beer to describe. Drinkable but not outstanding in any way.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Mar 2011
at 13:02
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle 22fl.oz. @ home.Clear dark red brown color with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, fully lasting, beige brown head. Aroma is light heavy malty, caramel, chocolate, light heavy hoppy, citrus, grapefruit, orange - citrus. Flavor is heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, dark licorice - licorice (piller). Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20110314]
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Mar 2011
at 11:41
9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8
So I was in Boston in the morning, but had this beer in DC in the afternoon. Go figure. Some day I hope it will be available here legitimately. Greg billed this one as a black IPA, and it certainly had a nice hop profile, and of course the color was consistent. Overall a very solid beer.
Tried
on 06 Mar 2011
at 18:12
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pours a pretty solid black color with a good sized tan head that slowly recedes and sticks itself to the glass. Smells of earthy spicy hops up front. Slight mineral twinge in there as well as some sweet toffee. Taste is sweet with a touch of alcohol at the onset but that sweetness is quickly overrun with an herbal, earthy bitterness that survives throughout most of the tasting range. Some butterscotch drops by for a second then there is some chocolaty sweet roast that tries to find a voice. Leaves a long lingering tea/hop bitterness in the finish. Full body, resinous and creamy mouthfeel, crisp carbonation. This one is different for sure, the more I drank the better I thought it was. Decent brew, probably not something I would drink often, but nice to have tried it.
Tried
on 01 Mar 2011
at 16:08
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Black with a firm and lasting tan head. Aroma dominated by citrus notes like lime, along with caramel, molasses and bread crust. Dry roasted and licorice flavour with citrus notes and a very bitter finish
Tried
on 08 Feb 2011
at 10:37
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle @ Odense Tasting, Jan 2011. Pours black with a small creamy off white head. Nose is sweet and mildly roasted. Milky chocolate, vanilla and a bit of diacetyl. Medium and smooth palate.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Jan 2011
at 04:03
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle 65 cl. Pours a pitch black with a dense light brown head. Dark roast malt in the nose with some salty licorice as well. Medium body, very hard roasted malt, some vanilla, dark fruits and estery Belgian yeast accents – a rather sophisticated flavor profile. Very roasty bitter finish. 160111
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jan 2011
at 08:53
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
22 fl oz bottle. Pours dark brown to black with a small tan and dense creamy head. Aroma is overripe fruity and dark malty, slight chessy. Quite hoppy, fruity, malty and lingering. Bitter and crisp hoppy finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jan 2011
at 07:25
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
pitch dark smooth brown head sweet sugary aroma, fruity note as if there was wheat malts in it. Flavor is licorice, roasted stuff, spices, very concentrated good palate
Tried
on 16 Jan 2011
at 07:17
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottled. A very dark brown beer with a red shine under a dark brown head. The aroma has notes of roasted malt, wood, and berries. The flavor is sweet with strong notes of roasted malt combined with medium notes of wood, dextrose, and malt, leading to dry, woody, and bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jan 2011
at 07:11