6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Orange brown colour with a beige head. Aroma is grapefruit, apricot, malt, hop. Flavour is grapefruit, hop, fruit, malt. Ok beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Aug 2007
at 04:11
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7.5
Dark brown, beige firm head. Aroma of coffee, roasted malts, licorice. Taste is bitter, of roasted malts, laurel and coffee. Lots of spices as well. Ends dry.
Tried
on 22 Aug 2007
at 04:52
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
50 cL bottle. Pours slight hazy orange with a quick disappearing head. Sweet to slight apple nose, minor spice note. Spiced flavour, slight sweet and with decent bitterness. Seems slight perfumed in the flavour, I assume that is the spices.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Aug 2007
at 14:55
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Rerate: Bottled, Norse Porter. Nice dark color, medium brown head. Lovely aroma of coffee and roasted malt, hint of chocolat. Rich taste, quite bitter. Great stuff. I cant believe the porter I drank in 2007 and this beer are the same? Original: Opaque color, short brown head. Aroma of coffe, roasted malt, quite spicy of clove and nutmeg, licorice. Bitter taste, coffee, dry, spicy, sour of licorice. Very dry porter. 737314
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Aug 2007
at 11:18
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Opaque pour, with a well-retained, frothy tan head - the aroma is immediately interesting - the wheat malt is very apparent, imparting an earthy, grainy, almost musty quality to the aroma - the expected chocolate and coffee smells are there, but the wheat mixes things up, almost giving the beer a weizenbock character - the flavor is very weizenbock - caramel and toffee and that wheat earthy tartness are quite strong - espresso bitterness, bakers chocolate and a flaked oat slickness let you know this is a stout, though - very creamy and flavorful, and the wheat works quite well (I expected otherwise).
Tried
on 17 Aug 2007
at 21:17
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Hazy amber pour, with a gigantic off-white head - wonderfully woody and smokey aroma, much like schlenkerla, with juniper very subdued, some biscuity malt, earthy, leathery notes - soft mouthfeel - quite dry, with mineral/chalk notes - the smoke is not as prominent as the aroma suggests, nor is the juniper - smoke and wood combine with the dry, earthy qualities to give the beer a charcoal-like character that is not entirely pleasant - an interesting mix of spices near the end, plus something else, lurking far in the background.......WORMWOOD! - good lord, why? - sure, there’s only a little bit, but even that is too much - the beer was doing so well, but this wormwood taste lingering on my tongue is starting to kill the experience.
Tried
on 16 Aug 2007
at 20:26
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Three 200ml tasters (bottle). Very dark coloured body with a rusty tint. Nice brown-yellow foam. A rather discreet aroma has got a vinously touch with notes of liquorice. The taste starts with a wheaty touch and develops into a climax of dark berries and rounded chocolatly maltiness. Lingering aftertaste with a alcohol finish. Robust, strong and full bodied brew, perhaps with a bit too dominant yeasty touch in the ending (Tromsø Ølfestival, 15.08 and 16.08.2007).
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Aug 2007
at 14:19
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
200ml taster from bottle. Pours a russet body colour under a thin tan cap. Firm lacing on the glass. Woody and earthy smell with notes of moderate smokiness. Flavour got a brush of juniper berry and a blend of spicy malts followed by dark fruits. Slightly yeasty bitterness towards the end (Tromsø Ølfestival, 15.08.2007).
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Aug 2007
at 14:02
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
200ml taster from a bottle at Tromsø Ølfestival. Moderate chocolate aroma joined by a touch of anise. Low-level foam over a dark-brown body. Roasted malts in a taste that is supported by coffee beans. Salty and a bit smoky. The brew gives an overall impression of being rather sheltered in flavour. (15.08.2007).
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Aug 2007
at 13:53
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at GBBF 2007. Hazy copper, lasting beige head. Interesting hop aroma, strong but really grapefruity. Very piney, redcurrant bush leafiness. Different, characterful. Some berries. It is rather interesting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Aug 2007
at 11:28