6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
deep amber color. Bready Carmel nose with some apricots. Moderately sweet malty mouth. somewhat estery with some fruity notes. Smooth. A bit boozy for 6.8%. Not bad, but not outstanding.
Tried
on 02 Nov 2011
at 08:00
5.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 2
Overall 5.5
massive amount of peat an smoke from beginning to end. Unfortunately, as is common peat and light color ales dont mix well and this beer is no exception. Hardly detect the hops.
Tried
on 31 Oct 2011
at 07:25
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
From a 330ml bottle on 26/10/2011. Pours a slightly opaque light golden with a decent head. Has an extremely powerful peaty, Islay single malt aroma. The flavour is similar. This is the beer incarnation of a Laphroaig, Lagavulin or Ardbeg. Has a touch of citrus and long bitter finish. This shouldn’t work but it does. A crazy, interesting, impressive one of a kind beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Oct 2011
at 02:01
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
From a 330ml bottle on 10/9/2011. Pours a slightly cloudy dark golden copper colour with a big head. Has a quite strong caramel and biscuit malt aroma, with a touch of fruit. In the mouth, there is heaps of maltiness, with sweet caramel and toffee prominent. This is balanced by a pronounced and quite long citrus bitterness.This is a hard beer to pin down style wise, but it’s well put together, quite complex, and enjoyable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Sep 2011
at 23:11
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
33 cL bottle. Pours hazy dark brown with a small off-white head. Aroma is caramelish and toasted malty. Bitter, toasted malty and roasted. Bitter and dry roasted finish. Ends dry and bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Sep 2011
at 23:22
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottled. A deep red beer with a brown head. The aroma has notes of chocolate and roasted malt. The flavor is sweet with notes of chocolate and roasted malt, leading to a bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Sep 2011
at 10:08
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
clear brown, small light yellow head. roasted malts, caramel in the aroma. flavor is roasted malts, faint charchoal, very well balanced.
Tried
on 08 Sep 2011
at 09:58
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle 33 cl. Courtesy of bluebetty. Pours a clear dark orangey brown with a beige head. Sweet subtle roasty nose. Medium body, sweet roastiness, a little licorice and some late bitter hops. The bitterness starts kinda subtle but grows on you. Very pleasant drinking. 080911
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Sep 2011
at 09:30
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Looks like this has been altered a fair bit since I first had it. Now its much more balanced, the peat is nowhere near as full on. Very enjoyable stuff....Pours amber with a small fading head.Nose shows bandaids, camp smoke, burnt hair, burnt plastic and faint caramel. Imagine a plastics factory caught on fire and someone put it out with beer. Pretty comparable to the aroma of this stuff. It’s amazingly potent too, strong enough to be detected from the other side of the room.Tastes like charcoal. Seriously. And more burnt plastic. With a little sweet malt underneath.This was difficult to rate - on the one hand, it was very interesting and unique. On the other hand, it was a serious hassle to drink and I never want to try it again.
Tried
on 30 Aug 2011
at 05:05
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 9
From a 330ml on 17/8/2011. Pours an extremely dark amber with a big head. Has a lovely sweet aroma of caramel, chocolate and raisins. All of these make an appearance in the flavour. There is an almost syrupy sweetness to it, which is contrasted by a big dose of hops and burnt roastiness. The balance is spot on. Definitely a black IPA, and yet another damn fine beer from the kiwis.
Tried
on 17 Aug 2011
at 02:25