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

Dark brown coloured body with a nice two centimetre tall tan head on top, but a fairly clear, cola-coloured bottom that even shows some amber at the very bottom. Aroma of rich coffee with a lot of earth and nuts, coffee, grain and biscuits with some pungent pitted fruits noticeable. Medium-bodied; Strong rich nuts and earthiness noticeable with the coffee and pitted fruits throughout and a great bitterness from the walnuts and earthy, rustic flavours, but the coffee is by far the strongest, and leaves a subdued bitterness, but nothing too pungent. Aftertaste is relatively straight-forward with some earthiness, a lot of nutty, rustic grainy and even biscuity flavours, but the nuts, coffee and grain are the strongest, in a good way. Overall, a very nice coffee brown that has slightly more pungency and complexity than you'd expect from a standard brown, but not so much that it's cloying or pungent. Nice to sample and well worth trying to find if you are somewhere down south that has this available! I sampled thsi 65 cL bottle, purchased from Brown Jug in Anchorage (Dimond Center), Alaska on 28-June-2021 for US$7,99 sampled in my hotel room on the day before my birthday, in Seward, Alaska on 29-June-2021.