6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Pours black with a small tan head. Aroma of burned malt with elderberry and some tobacco undertones. Malty flavor with elderberries. Dry bitter finish with some alcohol presence.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Aug 2006
at 03:00
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Cask @ GBBF 2006. Pours a golden colour with a small white head. Fruity spicy aroma. Sweet malty spicy flavor with some herbal hints. Sweet malty finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 22 Aug 2006
at 07:19
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Pours deep mahogany into an English pint. Micro head quickly subsides to skim rim. Deep malt and dried fruit aromas. Flat with smoked caramel front to back. Dry lingering caramel finish turns bitter. Very much like a dry stout.
Tried
on 21 Aug 2006
at 18:00
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle. Black beer with thin pale beige head. Good well rounded aroma, lots of dark fruit aroma, some vanilla, blue cheese too. Good deep mouthfeel, velvety, but a bit edgey too. Bit of charcoal. Dark fruits in mouth (damson, plums, dark cherry), juicy. Not a huge finish but the velvety choc and fruit flavours are excelletn.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Aug 2006
at 07:13
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Copper beer with an off-white head. Toffee and swet malt aroma. Sweet malt, caramel, and light pine flavor. Lighter body than expected. Lingering caramel/toffee. Easy to drink. Much better than expected and not nearly the pine influence I would have thought.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Aug 2006
at 12:51
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
500ml bottle from Hogs Back Brewery Shop. Wow this is good. I had a quick flick through the previous ratings and several Raters have said that it has potential but maybe they didn’t have the best of bottles. Well mine is a good bottle. Pale copper with thin off white head. Fruit, malt, hop aroma. that is well balanced and promises fruit in the mouth. Rather nice jellied fruit flavours in the mouth, tangerine, satsumas and fullish and juicy. Then this increasingly hoppy bitter finish. Well balanced. Lots of flavours. Really interesting beer. The jellied fruits followed by the hop is superb. Excellent beer. Will definitely rebuy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Aug 2006
at 13:24
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Best before June 2005. Pours black into a shaker. Vigorous pour produces mocha milkshake head. Head quickly recedes, but micro head creates cloudlike patterns on the surface throughout the experience. Roasted caramel and chocolate notes. Not quite flat -- silky and dry. Smoky chocolate palate front to back.
Tried
on 15 Aug 2006
at 16:24
5.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottle, brought by a friend from England. Black color, tan to beige "cafe latte" head; beautiful, but non-lasting, head. Soft gentle a bit chocolate and burnt scent, but more towards the chocolate bit. Warming up the beer grows a fresh fruity scent. Soft but a bit thin mouthfeel. Low bitterness. Small chocolate taste mixed with alcohol, mellow burnt aftertaste. Can’t taste the elderberry and the entire beer is a bit too weak for my taste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Aug 2006
at 15:04
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Golden colour, clear with a short white head. Hoppy, malty, fruity aroma and a sweet malty, fruity, hay taste. Medium body with a dry hoppy / hay finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Aug 2006
at 12:54
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottled (Thanks tbone_!). Golden colour, small white head. Strong salad and berries in aroma, along with some hints of hops. Flavour is dry gooseberryish. with hints of hops and some wheat. Very crispy and refreshing beer. Surely quite "alternative" to much I’ve had before. Rating #1700.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Aug 2006
at 12:05