7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours mahogany-tinged black into a Sam glass. Mocha pancake head with good retention recedes leaving spot lacing to coat surface. Toasted nuts and chocolate aromas. Dry, dark espresso from front to back with sweet milk chocolate in the middle and a lasting bitter resin and bean finish.
Tried
on 10 Nov 2011
at 14:44
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Picked up a single @ Bert’s Better Beers. Nearly clear amber color, head vanished real fast. Citrus hop and light malt nose. Sweet bready malt and balanced nice with Noble hops. The flavor is very much an English Pale Ale. They did a get job reproducing the style. If you want British style ale, it is decent.
Tried
on 06 Nov 2011
at 10:48
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Shaker pint draft at Nessun Dorma in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Pour is a clear golden copper with a smallish frothy white head. Aroma is cracker bread malt, sweet caramel and an light floral hoppiness in the back. Fresh and clean nose. The taste starts with the caramel sweetness, turning to soft bready malt and finishing with the bright floral hoppiness. Flavors are straight forward, bright and clean. Palate is thin to medium bodied, slightly lower carbonation and the clean dry finish. Very drinkable beer, nice one.
Tried
from Draft
on 07 Oct 2011
at 06:24
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pours deep amber into a shaker. Off-white head quickly recedes to hug rim. Caramel aromas. Bread, caramel, toffee and nuts from front to back. Dry mild resin finish.
Tried
on 21 Sep 2011
at 18:15
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pint size bottle, purchased @ Bert’s Better Beers, Hooskett, NH. Light carbonation, with small white head. No lace. Nose of wheat and light cherry. Taste is malty with a very subtle tart cherry finish. A hint of what you would taste in cherry pie. Lighter in body and very drinkable. Good for a wheat based fruit beer. Simple and straight-forward.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Sep 2011
at 14:31
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8
Purchased bottle from Bert’s Better Beers, Hooskett, NH. Poured into a pint glass. Black in color with large frothy, tan head, leaving sheets of lacing all down the glass. Nose of roasted malt and chocolate. Taste has huge coffee notes with caramel. A nice, pleasant lingering coffee finish, dry. Medium body. Well balanced. Excellent. I will buy this again.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Sep 2011
at 21:09
5.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Sampled on draft at GTMW 2011. Pours a hazy copper color with a large tan head. Good head retention and lacing. Aroma of earthy hops and a bit of mint. The taste is bitter hops with resin, mint and vegetal notes. Medium bodied.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Aug 2011
at 20:28
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Tap at Villa Tap. 2017. Pretty solid, better than the bottle I had years ago. Filtered gold orange body. Steady glass rimming white head. Pleasant interplay between the noble hops, Munich malt, amber(?) malt. Drinks with fruity tones... making me wonder if it an ale. Good.
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Aug 2011
at 00:14
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft at Old Fashioned. Deep brown-red color. Oily head. Some hops in the aroma, but seem covered up in thick malt. Bourbon really takes over. Very malty. Solid hop backbone, with this is closer to Barleywine than IIPA. Lots of fruity caramel tones. A little underwhelming flavorwise, while overwhelming in body. Begins to finish scotchy and smoky, a little fig. OK, but not that impressive overall.
Tried
from Draft
on 07 Aug 2011
at 23:02
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
@Victors Fantasy Tasting-500ml bottle-pours a disappearing tan head and brown color. Aroma is coffee-dark malt. Taste is coffee, secondary dark malt bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jul 2011
at 12:57