5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle. Pours a clear reddish amber with white head. Nose is caramel, sweet malt and brown sugar. Taste is rather dry malt and brown sugar. Light bodied for a "strong ale."
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Aug 2010
at 11:44
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
bottle at the Tally tasting, pours light yellow with a medium white head. Aroma is all sweet peach. Flavor is very thin pale malts and wheat masked by a strong sweet peach jam flavor. Very one dimensional.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Aug 2010
at 07:12
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
@PilsnerPeters-22oz bottle-pours an off white head and brown color. Aroma is dark malt-chocolate, earthy. Taste is dark malt-chocolate, earthy, some hops bite.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jun 2010
at 08:15
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Thanks to Ibrew2or3@Tampa Wkly Gathering @BT-22oz bottle-pours an off white head and copper color. Aroma is spice, medium malt-sweet, yeast. Taste is spice, medium malt-sweet, yeast.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jun 2010
at 08:11
6.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle at Brickskeller. Clear golden, rapidly disappearing white head, solid lacing. Aroma of malt and black pepper. Taste is malt, bitter hops. Simple and straightforward.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jun 2010
at 05:16
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bonus bomber courtesy of ksurkin. It pours deep clear copper with weak micro white head. The aroma is wheat, coriander like spice, grains and apple fruitiness. It doesn’t seem to take long for the aroma to fade away to just spiciness and grainy malts. The taste pretends to be spicy hops but is really more wheat, coriander, yeasty spice and sweet apple fruitiness. The hops don’t seem to add up to the label statements.
Tried
on 29 May 2010
at 19:35
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Malty with a slight citrus bitterness to it. Enough hops to grab my attention but it strikes me as more of a barley wine than a DIPA. Still, it was a good beer from start to finish. Wouldn’t mind going another round with it.
Tried
on 28 May 2010
at 15:45
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle at Pilsner Pete’s RBSG. Pours mostly clear dark brown. Nose and taste of roasted malts, citrus, bitter hops and coffee grounds.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 May 2010
at 18:04
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Hazy orange coloured body with a copper glow and a very thin, fast-dying head. Aroma of strong aromatic peaches, a lot of caster sugar, oranges, a touch of malt and some offputting spices at the end. Medium-bodied; Assertive fresh peaches at first with some malt and sugars following behind. Aftertaste shows some chocolate and perhaps nutty bitterness coming right after the main sweet and fruity flavours - odd indeed. Overall, a good beer in the nose, but the execution isn’t flawless and it has an overwhelming chocolate and malt character that doesn’t show well to me, especially in this category. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Total Wine in McLean, Virginia on 15-April-2010, sampled at home in Washington on 06-May-2010.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 May 2010
at 23:39
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Slightly hazy amber coloured body with a light copper/orangish glow and a thin off-white head. Aroma of spices, nutmeg, malt, nuts, coriander seed, meat and mushrooms and a touch of caramel. Medium-bodied; Assertive spicey flavour with some peat and metal in front of a malty and caramel finish - not much else. Aftertaste shows some spices, nuts and a rather lightish alcohol bite. Overall, a decent beer - the spices kind of work with a lighter beer, but not all the way - need more of a complex profile to pull this off. Decent, but definitely not my favourite winter beer. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Total Wine in McLean, Virginia on 15-April-2010 sampled at home in Washington on 2-May-2010.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 May 2010
at 19:56