4.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3.5

Can at Davo, Zwolle. Aroma is citrus with some weird dankness, orange, cheese, hops. Flavour is light to moderate sweet, light bitter. Medium body. Meh... weird cheesy aroma.

7.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Old rating - 355ml bottle, 8.7%, pours dark brown with a beige head. Aromas & tastes of chocolate, coffee, earth, herbs, hops & roasted malt. Medium body. Sweet finish

7.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle from Drankenhandel Leiden. Aroma is roasted malt, maple, caramel, vanilla, chocolate, whipped cream, some coffee. Flavour is sweet with a mild bitterness. Body is above medium. Sweet, decadent, could have used a more robust body.

6.2

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle from Drankenhandel Leiden. Aroma is strong grapefruit with fruity hop, grapefruit peel, orange. Bit candied grapefruit. Flavour is medium bitter with a mild sweetness. Medium body. Hmmm okay, decent bitterness, not a fan of candied fruited IPA though and I never will be.

7.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle from Drankenhandel Leiden. Aroma is vanilla, dark malt, milk chocolate, notes of chocolate cookies, roast. Flavour is sweet with a bittersweet finish. Above medium body, bit creamy finish. Enjoyable.

Pretty damn close to black. But not quite. Thirteen years ago that would be black. Now smell this. Rich dark and singed fruits like plum, dates, pomegranate and raisins. Burly roastiness, tempered by abundant malt sugars – so clean and simple but so effective. And a hint of woody, grapefruity hops. It’s all there, dude. Complex as all hell and bang on to style, such as “imperial porter” is a real style. More like a fun interpretation of a few older, established concepts. But that’s for another day, cause today I’m drinking. Big and soft, this fills the mouth with decadence. The fruits are more pronounced with raisins and burnt plums taking lead. There’s some roast in there, too, and a ton of smooth sugars. Good stuff.

5.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

Notes from 3/21/2008. Poured into an ordinary ho-hum pint glass. An inch of off-white head goes up & down, leaving a mess of crazy stitched lace & film scarring the glass. Body is orange & brown & full of haze & bubbles. Nose is soapy, but somewhat masked with menthol-like hops & loads of caramel. Syrupy & sappy, the hops are as oily & sticky as anything I've ever encountered. Once again, a soapy aspect leeks in, with an Irish Spring zest as well as a similar mouthfeel. Yes, I was one of those children. Just barely a note roast in there(somewhere). Astringent, but with plenty of caramel(though it only seems to intensify the stickiness). The hop oils do not wash off easy. It tastes as if actual pine(needles, cones, bark, & all) was used in the brewing of this beer. The balancing act just creates too much of everything. It's so sweet, it's so astringently bitter. Mouthfeel is of course thick, but also very suddy. With all this coarse carbonation, the beer should be able to move around a little, but it doesn't. Its sappiness just seals off your tongue while the alcohol linger & saturates. Overall it wasn't totally unpleasant, but would of been more palatable in a smaller serving. Yes, even 12 ounce was a little too much for me. I didn't read the label initially, but once I took a sip, I knew I had assumed too early. A different day, & different person, they might enjoy this. It's just not for me though.

7.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle shared at the Nov. 2024 PS tasting. Very dark brown, thin head. Aroma of oak, bourbon, honey, vanilla. Taste is roast, oak, bourbon, chocolate. Full bodied.

7

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Bottle from lowcostbeer.com, 2 months past BBE. Light hazy gold, small white head. Aroma of orange, caramel, lime zest. Taste is grapefruit, orange, caramel, biscuit, pepper. Nice soft carbonation. It's nice.

6.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle from lowcostbeer.com, 1 month past BBE. Hazy orange-gold, lots of interesting sediment, small fairly fizzy white head, some scattered retention. Aroma of tangerines with a basic malt background, some biscuit. Taste has a decent level of orange and tangerine juiciness and zest, a light bitter bite in the finish with a tingle of spice from the hops. Light and refreshing. Alcohol not notable. Would be easy to quaff a bunch of these and forget its 6%. Nothing remarkable but well made.