Pours orange/amber into a shaker. Slight off-white head with good retention. Resin and grapefruit aromas. Upfront caramel with a lasting pine hop finish.

Nice clearish orange/amber coloured body with light golden highlights and a very thin off-white head. Aroma of fresh grassy hops, caramel, figs, malt, toffee and definitely some butterscotch. Medium to Full-bodied; Strong hoppy flavour with english hops the most noticeable, fading to a full malt backbone covered with nuts and toffee - a bit of alcohol to speak of at the end too. Aftertaste shows some figs & raisins with some tobacco and light leather tastes near the end. Overall, a good beer - full of flavours, just not exactly sure which style this hits most - a mix between a lighter barleywine and a stronger esb - interesting! I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased from K&E Beverage in New Paltz, New York on 21 January 2008.

Really red color, with a slightly not white head, but mostly white. Malty smell, like an Irish Ale mostly. A little bit of roasted coffee, a bunch of malts, not really a lot of flavor. Rock Art doesn’t really make that good beers.

Almost black body... nearly white head. Slight smokiness in the weak aroma. Watery palate, but a good roasted malt flavor is there. Easy to drink as well.

Really dark amber color. Smei-thick off-white head. Vague slightly fruity malt smell. Similar taste. Snickers taste: caramel/chocolate. Not really complex for a barley wine.

Foamy white head with clear pale body. Bready aroma. This is not a wheat ale as far as I can tell. It is what it says it is on the bottle, a golden ale. Basically, it is a hoppy, though not that hoppy beer, with a modicum of complexity... not a wheat ale...

Courtesy of Beerlando. This is probably the second longest beer name I’ve rated and entered to date (first being McGuire’s I’ll Have What the Gentleman on the Floor is Having, BW). Pours deep gold with lasting white head. The aroma has green spice hops, mild malts and more green (wet hops maybe) hoppiness. The flavor is the same as the nose with greenish wetish tasting hops that are both floral and mildly spicy. About midway the bitter hoppiness peaks. Into the finish and after taste the malt and hop notes fade evenly away.

Bottle from Goldtwins - Thanks! Pours a dark amber with a medium off-white head. Nice lacing. Aroma is sweet with malts and dark fruits. Pleasant. Flavor is caramel and chocolate, rather roasty and no hops or alcohol present. Starts off a bit wet before the tail of roasty malts. Easily drinkable, yet easily forgetable.

Deep dark brown coloured body with a large tan head. Aroma of nuts, malt and very little else. Medium-bodied; Strong pungent raisins and nutmeg in the taste with malt and yeast rounding out the flavours. Aftertaste shows a bit more promise than most browns - this has some sugars and isn’t overly nutty. Overall, a better-than-average brown that should be sampled by those who don’t like nuts in their browns. I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased from Oliver’s Beverage in Albany, New York on 29-September-2007.

Bomber drunk on 8/24/07
Another very nicely conditioned bottle, with a humongous, rather dense, well-retained head and moderate lacing. Head is a chalky-beige while the body is a dark amber-mahogany. Clarity is medium-high to high.
Sweet caramel-like malts in the nose are joined by mild esters and somewhat-more-than-mild phenols, lending a black and white pepper-like nose. Breadiness sits on the end, with hints of roast and chocolate that keep things quite dry. As it warms/breathes the sweetness gets a bit stronger, and that maltiness gets a bit more sloppy, lending too much breadiness and an almost bittersweet caramel-vanilla note. Too much yeast activity without the requisite bottle refermentation to help smooth things out (no yeast to re-uptake all the phenols and other biproducts). Medium strength of aroma, light alcohol vapors on the finish.
Rather basic, aromatic-like malts lend caramel and some touches of raisin and roast, while creamy-sweet vanilla and honey notes are too sweet with warming and give way to strong phenolic spiciness, bordering astringency, on the finish. Due to the carbonation, the texture is strong however, with fairly tight carbonation. Gets too bready and yeasty on the finish (with minerals and chalkiness that don’t seem appropriate), however, and there’s some overt alcohol as well. Rather uninspiring, pseudo-Belgian in my book.