7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
On cask at Dunedin’s 1st Annual Hoppy Endings. Pours muddy copper haziness with gold edges and off white head. The aroma has malt sweetness and inviting rye to go along with floral, spice hops and a hint of earthiness. The taste starts sweet and then a rye twang surfaces along with hops mixing just after laying down a layer of pine and grassiness. To midway more malts make an appearance with caramel, malt roastiness and sweet malts. As the experience arrives at the finish a faint pulse of peppery heat picks up and gets noticed like a light puff of air to go along with a faint vegetable sensation. I heard they plan to up the amount of ancho peppers the next time around. Sounds good to me.
Tried
from Cask
on 11 May 2009
at 22:48
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Tap @ brewery. Pours black, beige head. Aroma roasted malts, light bitter hops. Taste, malty, roasted, some thin coffee and chocolate. Finish is lightly bitter with some caramel and roast.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Apr 2009
at 00:34
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tap @ brewery. Pours dark brown, with white head. Aroma strong dark fruit profile with nice roasted malts and sugar. Taste, was getting a lot of cooked pear/prune with caramel, thin chocolate body with some malts. Warming alcohol palate with a finish that is borderline barrel. A fine tasty barley wine.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Apr 2009
at 00:26
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tap @ brewery. Pours copper with thin white head. Aroma of floral hops, some caramel notes, malts and syrup like sugar. Taste, had just plenty of hops - floral notes, with some light grapefruit presence and some spices. Balanced with malts and caramel giving the beer a syrupy / sugar mouthfeel.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Apr 2009
at 00:23
5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6
tap @ brewery Pours golden, white head. Aroma and taste, hoppy with citrus fruits and grapefruit with light notes of yeast. Can’t write much more about it. Very uninteresting and far from Dunedin’s best brews.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Apr 2009
at 00:20
5.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 7
tap @ brewery. Pours golden, thin white head. Aroma is fruity, some raspberry tartness and wheat. Taste, raspberry, wheat, some sugar, light watery mouthfeel with some raspberry juice, some citrus hops and orange notes and tartness raspberry.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Apr 2009
at 00:15
5.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 7
Tap @ brewery. Pours golden clear, white head. Aroma apricot is all over. Seemed too hidden compared to the note that says that actual apricots are used during brewing process. Taste, apricot, wheat, sweet sugar, with a fruit puree mouthfeel and some yeast profile..
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Apr 2009
at 00:12
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Red amber with a small white head. Aroma of caramel, tangerine and apricot. Dry and malty flavour with a bright, fruity hop character.
Tried
on 25 Apr 2009
at 16:49
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 7
On tap at the brewery. It poured hazy orange-ish copper with gold edges and nearly a bright white head. Served up a bit warmer than the usual frigid pours. Still comes across too cold for the style. The aroma has sweet malts, a touch of caramel and modest citrus. The taste begins with a mix of sweet malts, crystal malts, grapefruit and tangelo bitter citrus hoppiness. As midway is being considered the various malts fall back to reveal an increasing level of citrus hop bitterness. Caramel sweetness and a modest amount of roasted malts hang on into the finish. It ends pretty neutral with lingering citrus hops and mild dry roasted malt astringency creating a pleasing balance to a beer style defined by its lack of balance. It comes up well short of pushing the limits of the style but its malt chewiness and hop presence puts it into the IIPA category. Fully sessionable and very satisfying brew.
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Apr 2009
at 22:43
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Pours on tap at the brewpub almost murky mahogany with micro thin white head. The modest aroma is sweet with malts, dark fruitiness and a bit of molasses to go along with chocolate and faint tobacco earthiness. The taste seems full and rich. The flavor starts with slick sweetness that moves into prune, ripe cherry and fig dark fruity sweetness. By midway chocolate and roasty malts join in to add balance to the sweetness. As the finish approaches an unmistakable earthiness murmurs to the surface with notes of tobacco and earth mixing with a pulse of caramel. At the finish more roastiness is noticed and adds further balance to the flavor as the after taste commences. Lots of layers of flavor giving it plenty of interest. I was told they only brewed or yielded about 4 barrels. So this isn’t expected to last. I think six months may blend the fruity esters together and meld them into the malty sweetness to create a very nice brew. I hope they’ve held some back so I can find out. Best Florida brewed Wee Heavy I’ve had by far.
Tried
from Draft
on 05 Apr 2009
at 19:36