5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
bottle - Pours light amber with a thin head. The aroma is mild caramel malt. This medium bodied brew is led by the caramel malt flavors as is typical for the style and has a touch of hops. It’s smooth, decent, and unremarkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Apr 2007
at 19:37
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Clearish light straw body, thick off-white head. Spicy hops aroma with notes of lemon and bitter spice, backed by dry, cerealy malt. The body opens with light corny, biscuity malt, with notes of cookies and lemon. Bitter, grassy hops lend a crispness to the palate. Bitter, metallic finish. Quaffable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Apr 2007
at 20:39
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
bottle - Pours hazy copper with a thin head. There’s a nice citrus and pine hop aroma. The citrus hop flavor is held up by a medium body with a good malt balance. A long, hoppy finish completes this quality example of an IPA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Mar 2007
at 19:41
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Sampled at the 2nd annual Michigan Winter Beer Festival, Lansing. Ruddy orange body, thin off-white head. Aroma and body dominated by a big swirl of caramels and sweet breads, punctuated by slightly faded but still potent citrusy hops. Leathery and salty notes also present. Good heft. I would have pegged this as an aged Imperial IPA, but the malts are heavy. A touch of oxidation wasn’t too distracting.
Tried
on 25 Feb 2007
at 19:08
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Yellow-brown head, shortlived, over black looking beer with a lot of reddish, Cola-like highlights. Chocolate, fresh green leaves, finishing in absolute moccha/coffee; with very clearly alcohol, brandy-like, and even some higher alcohols, giving a quite complex, pleasing nose. Sweet taste with sweet chocolate flavour; rather roasted than burnt notes, a touch of fruity acidity (very restrained), and going over in rich coffee (with some coffeecream). sweet, however dominates leaving very little bitterness, and that not particulary hoppy. Retronasal some tobacco. Well bodied, smooth, grist and unfermented sugars - which is very strange seen the beer came from 19°Plato to 9A% ABV. Pleasing sweet stout (enfin... IMO), thanks to my America travelling wife.
Tried
on 20 Dec 2006
at 11:14
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Clear golden body with a nice head that diminishes fairly quickly. Flavor is OK, a bit heavier on the grain than I would have expected. Saaz hops come through with a bit of pepper, but not as much as I would have liked.
Tried
on 17 Dec 2006
at 18:16
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle from cpkschubert who must have gotten it from kokostephi.Thanks both of you! Nose of citrus hops; amber with a very slight head; has lemony flavor with hop bitterness that lasts to the finish in a light-medium body.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Dec 2006
at 13:18
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle from cbkschubert; Nose of roasted coffee, cream, and malt; dark cherry brown with a tiny tan head; flavor of coffee, cocoa and a hint of smokiness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Dec 2006
at 18:59
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
22 oz bottle - Pours very dark brown to black with a thin head. This beer smells much like a stout with roasted malt and some chocolate notes. There’s also a hint of vanilla. The flavor is dark roasted caramel malts with coffee and chocolate in there. Full bodied with a creamy mouthfeel and a hint of hops providing balance, Dragon’s Milk goes down smoothly, the 9% abv buried under all that malt. Excellent beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Dec 2006
at 23:28
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
bottle - Pours dark amber with a thin head. The mild aroma is mostly of caramel malts. The flavor is sweet and malty with a decent mild hops balance. It’s medium bodied and fairly lively on the palate. This is an easy to drink beer and not bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Nov 2006
at 16:03