8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 9
Draft. Blackish beter with a tan head. Chocolate and barrel notes in the aroma. Barrel and chocolate flavor with light roast and toffee. Fuller bodied. Barrel and chocolate lingers with light roast and light vanilla.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Apr 2010
at 13:50
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle thanks to ucusty. Pours ambe rwith a near white head. Aroma has a strong hop and grass aroma with notes of caramel and cereal underlying. Flavor begins with a nice caramel and sweet grain note but the hops build quickly with a pine hop finish that is very well balanced.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Apr 2010
at 16:51
8.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Tap, City Beer Store. Pours dark, black with dark brown highlights. The head is mocha-colored and relatively small but sticks around well. The aroma is a big mix of brown sugar, molasses, chocolate, caramel, coffee and bourbon, which is fairly restrained. The flavor is sweet but works quite well. It’s a thick, rich and luxurious beer with a deep well of flavor. It coats the mouth with sweet beer flavors and is quite excellent. One of my favorites from Valley so far.
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Apr 2010
at 19:23
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
courtesy of ibrew2or3. pours light cloudy amber, white head aroma and flavors, lots of pomegranate, yeasty mouthfeel with mild spices, fizzy tart fruit palate, berry juice finish with a touch of malt. Just couldn’t get into the pomegranate theme here.
Tried
on 30 Mar 2010
at 10:12
5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 1
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
courtesy of ibrew2or3. pours amber, light white head. Aroma, sweet, spicy yeast and fruity. flavors, lots of what i saw as honeysuckle sweetness, grainy mouthfeel, fruity, overall too boozy and sweet, mild herbal notes in the finish.
Tried
on 30 Mar 2010
at 09:59
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours deep amber with thin tan head. The aroma is pure molasses mixing with cherries, figs and prunes as well as chocolate chip cookie, grainy malts and earthiness. The taste is smooth English barleywine with prunes, figs, cherries, pears and plums. Smooth sweet delicious malts rounded out by a bit of musty earthiness bring this to the finish. A dandy English BW.
Tried
on 26 Mar 2010
at 21:00
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Scored this via trade with kmweaver. Thanks Ken! 22oz bottle pours a translucent copper amber with a frothy, white head. Grapefruit aroma, resiny, lemons, a little candy. Flavor is sweet, malty, oranges, lemons, pine. Medium bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Mar 2010
at 17:17
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
@RichmondX Gathering Thanks dkachur-22oz bottle-pours a thin light tan head and amber color. Aroma is resin, secondary sweet medium malt-caramel. Taste is resin, secondary sweet medium malt-caramel. Grapefruit comes in at back end.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Mar 2010
at 13:53
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle shared thanks to Eric
Appearance: Pours a clear amber with a off-white head leaving some lacing
Aroma: Pine and citrus
Taste: Pine and citrus with some malt backbone
Well balanced, very nice. Not over the top hoppy.
Appearance: Pours a clear amber with a off-white head leaving some lacing
Aroma: Pine and citrus
Taste: Pine and citrus with some malt backbone
Well balanced, very nice. Not over the top hoppy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Mar 2010
at 19:31
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Amber beer with an off-white head. Malt and yeast aroma with earth, light fruit, and some sweetness. Malt and yeast flavor with light fruit and light sweetness. Medium body. light sweet malt lingers with light sumemr fruit and light yeast.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Mar 2010
at 12:48