5.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Gold with a huge white head. High bead - a bit over the top really. Aroma is very fruity - pears, apricots, lemon pudding - with some honey, earth and butterscotch. The sweet things show up in the taste too, but the malt side is not all that sweet. Drying finish hasn’t enough bitterness to my taste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Nov 2010
at 03:56
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle, 12C. Dark reddish brown with a large beige head that fades but returns with a swirl. Aroma of toast, prunes, cocoa. Taste is really quite chocolatey, but not all that sweet. There’s modest roasted bitterness at the end as well as some grass. Alcohol is very well hidden - so much so that the texture seems a bit too light. Straightforward and a rather overcarbonated, but not bad at all.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Oct 2010
at 04:06
3.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 3
Texture 2
Overall 2.5
Great to be the third rater of this beer and the first not from Australia! Super crisp and clear (NOT hazy) with a bunch of bubbles rising from the bottom and a large, dense white head that fades like soap - very fast. The craziest thing about this appearance is the fog that stays on top of the bottle once immediately opened - it looks magical - crazy. Aroma of fresh wheat, caster sugar and then a funky cardboardie type scent comes through - odd. Medium-bodied; Assertive effervescence with a very mild flavour, showing only a light malt (not even wheat) flavour, some light citrus notes, a hint of banana and some subdued fruity sweetness. Aftertaste is very mellow with some malt (again, not much wheat flavours) and some mild funky yeast coming through, and also some fake sugar flavour. Overall, not very wheatie and especially not a german unfiltered wheat which the label clearly stated they were attempting. A pretty big letdown and a very sub-par beer. Unfortunately, I brough this back for a long trip to be sampled, and I wasn’t too happy with the results. But, happy to have sampled it, given not many people have! I sampled this 33 cL bottle purchased from Slowbeer in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on 31-December-2009 for AU$4.50 sampled at home on the East Coast of the Good Old USA in Washington on 07-October-2010.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Oct 2010
at 23:14
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Pours black with a large, lasting light tan head.Nose is rich with lots of milk chocolate, cocoa and softer roasted coffee. Very soft and cream, no aggressive roasted malt. Very nice.Flavours follow along the same lines, complex with no harsh roasted notes. Plenty more cocoa and soft coffee with some distinctive oatmeal lingering in there too. The main problem is some faint burnt notes.Body is suitably thick. Carbonation is somewhat higher than I would have liked.
Tried
on 30 Aug 2010
at 03:18
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. Very dark reddish brown with a medium light tan head. Interesting aroma of roasted malt, cocoa, vanilla, oats and coconut. Something herbal too - fennel? Taste has cocoa, coffee, dessicated coconut and full but not very deep roasted malt. Bitter finish has roast, coffee and grass. Medium-bodied - doesn’t really have that oatmeal lusciousness. Sweeter as it warms. [3.5] This one’s got _much_ more of what I thought was fennel, and now it’s clearly star anise. Perhaps slightly to the detriment of the other flavours, but it’s prickly and it’s in synch. Interesting and unusual.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Aug 2010
at 06:16
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
From a 330ml bottle on 15/7/2010. There are herbs, grass and bread and a touch of honey in the aroma. More herbal notes are evident when it hits the mouth, with a long, firm hoppy finish setting off the honeyed sweetness at the start. This is a pretty good pilsener.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jul 2010
at 00:49
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
From a 330ml bottle on 8/7/2010. Has masses of chocolate, a bit of coffee and some cherry in the aroma.In the mouth, it’s very sweet, with chocolate and caramel dominating. There is a moderate bitter finish which balances its distinctly dessert like character. This is a fabulous drop if, like me, you like big dollops of sweetness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jul 2010
at 02:47
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pours golden with a small, white, quickly fading head.Nose shows some grassy noble hops, with subtle caramel and bready malt in the background.Flavours are pretty much the same: subtle noble hops with bready and grainy malt. Too highly carbonated.
Tried
on 28 Jan 2010
at 01:42
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Pours a hazy straw with a small head.Aroma is pretty basic, but shows some bready wheat and cloves, but little else.Flavours show more wheat, with some grainy malt unfortunately bringing it down.Too much prickly carbonation detracts from the little flavour present.
Tried
on 22 Jan 2010
at 01:59
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 4
Overall 7
Pours orange/amber with a large, slowly receding head.Aroma shows orange and tangerine marmalade, grapefruit, and hop resin along with prominent caramel malt.Loads of nutty, caramel malt flavours, with some of the citrus hop aromas transferring through. Quite an assertive bitterness follows, though the malt balances it quite well.Carbonation is too high.
Tried
on 19 Jan 2010
at 15:19