Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
’08 bottle courtesy of BA trader. Pours copper, brownish with beige head. Aroma is fruity, malty with hints of cherry/prune and light chocolate. Flavor, dark fruits really give this one a good dimension, hinting at a gingerbread palate with some caramel and fruits. Possibly some smoke in the finish.
bhensonb (22605) reviewed XXX Warlock from Bristol Brewing Company 16 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle from Liquor Max. Pours a clear ruby brown with a few bubbles. The aroma is really strong. Like burnt malt, tar, overly cooked dark fruit, alcohol. Pretty full in body. Very light carbonation. First flavor is chocolate, then some maple, then some really nasty tar, a burning in the throat, charred caramel. Don’t think there’s oak, but there might be. It’s doing a lot of things. Finishes really dark and pretty bitter, with a slight balancing candy. Not to be missed.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Dark brown with a medium tiny lasting beige head. Sweet aroma with burned malt, chocolate and coffee notes. Sweet flavour with bruned malt, dark bitter chocolate, hops and mollasses. Finished sweet with warming alcohol.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Pours a dark ruby/brown, with a small fizzy ring - kind of looks like cola - aroma of roasted malts, light vanilla, a touch of smoke, burnt/caramelized sugar - medium/light body, moderate carbonation - roasty and moderately dry - some chocolate and blueberry - mildly smoky - ends with some ashy character and tobacco-ish notes - a little thin - decent, but there are far better smoked porters out there.
fonefan (84534) reviewed XXX Warlock from Bristol Brewing Company 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Bottle 12fl.oz. @ home.[ Trade by BDR ]. Clear dark black color with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to light beige head. Aroma is heavy malty, chocolate, dusty, cacao, dark berry, medera, soy sauce, moderate alcoholic. Flavor is heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat, finish feel is moderate to heavy alcoholic. [20090707]
theisti (5540) reviewed Compass IPA from Bristol Brewing Company 16 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
12 oz bottle (labeled as Compass IPA), purchased at the liquor store next to the Safeway in Fountain, Colorado. This appeared to be best beer available at the shop, so I gave it a try. Pour is mostly clear copper orange with nice settling and a 1 1/2 inch white head. Nice splotchy lacing as the beer falls. Aroma of dank citrus and pine hops initially, quickly followed by nice toasted biscuit maltiness behind that. Nice balanced and fresh nose. Taste is fresh, dank, citrus orange, bright pine hoppiness balanced with the toasted biscuit malt. Nice balance between the sweet and the bitter. Palate is medium thin, medium carbonation - really drinkable.
BMan1113VR (8090) reviewed XXX Warlock from Bristol Brewing Company 16 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottled 6/9/06. Pours with a black body and a small off-white head. Aroma is alcohol, grainy, dry animal food, raisins, biscuit and chocolate. Taste is awesome with Madeira, port, vinous notes, alcohol raisins, smokey barbecue, brandy and brown sugar. Syrupy with light bubbles. Not very easy to get down (because of the immense alcohol), but still a very delicious drink.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
750ml bottle-pours an off white bubbly head and murky orange/amber color. Aroma is medium malt-caramel/molasses/brown sugar, pine hops. Taste is medium malt-caramel/molasses/brown sugar, pine/resin hops and some lemon, some alcohol. Nice sipping. Thanks bitterbill & jwc215 for trading this.
Appearance - 3 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 3 | Overall - 12
Draft at brewery. Small, off-white head atop a medium amber body. The aroma has notes of cookie, grapefruit and resin. Some pine in the background. The flavor is moderately sweet and lightly bitter. The finish turns moderately bitter. Medium body with a watery texture. Ample carbonation. OK. And just OK, yet easy to drink. Why not go for one of Bristol’s IPA’s instead of this?
jcr (3164) reviewed Compass IPA from Bristol Brewing Company 17 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 14
Draft at brewery. On nitro. One thing nitro does to a nice, hoppy IPA is to smooth out that raspy finish. At first sip, I wished that this was on CO2 instead. But by the end, it was going down smoothly and I somewhat appreciated that. Long-lasting, off-white head. Bubbly medium amber body. The aroma was full of flowers, grapefruit, apricot, citrus with some notes of caramel and hints of apricot and peach. The flavor is moderately sweet and moderately bitter. The finish is moderately bitter, but only lightly sweet. Medium body with a smooth as silk texture from the nitro. Hopped up carbonation, or is it nitration?