6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 2
Overall 6.5
Pours black with ruby highlights and a large, quickly fading, sudsy head.Nose shows chocolate, cloves, sultanas and grassy, earthy hops. Pretty nice.Similar roasty flavours, but not so much sweet malt and sultana characters.Way too aggressive carbonation. Stupidly high. Body feels watery.
Tried
on 27 Apr 2011
at 19:01
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Pours dark amber with a large, quickly fading head.Nose shows prominent smoke, as in smoked meat smoke. Also some woody character. Underneath is sweet rich malt and caramel hints.Smoke carries through as a flavour along with the caramel. Finishes weakly with a faint grainy character.Nice moderate carbonation and rich body.
Tried
on 07 Apr 2011
at 02:51
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7
Pours deep, dark mauve with a small purple head.Nose shows sour berries, sort of similar to cherries and raspberries. Has a lambic-esque character to it. Very appealing berry character.Similar flavours, sour at first before transitioning to sweet berries. Very short lasting finish, quickly fades away to nothing.Carbonation is way too high.
Tried
on 03 Mar 2011
at 01:31
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Very dark brown with a small, dense beige head. Mild but complex aroma of chocolate, plums, doughy yeast, milk. Taste has milky chocolate, dried fruits, grassy bitterness, pudding spices. Odd beer - quite like a milk stout. The yeast in the aroma didn’t really show up in the mouth either in feel or taste when cold, but was there as it began to warm. Dry finish with allspice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Jan 2011
at 05:00
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Brownish red with a creamy pink head. Fresh berry aroma - smells more sweet than tart; could be blackcurrants (ie Ribena) rather than boysenberries - a little bread and lemon. Taste is much less sweet than suggested. Hard to tell whether the tartness is from the berries or both. Drying, slightly chewy finish with berry skins and some metal. The metal is a real flavour of the berries too. Too heavy on the berries for me, but it’s a classy drop. Admired it a lot more than I liked it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Jan 2011
at 04:40
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 6
Black, tan head. Aroma of toast, chocolate, milky coffee, prunes. Taste has light roasted malt, pruney sourness (I don’t know whether this a fault or a feature, but it’s really too much) and coffee. Medium bodied with a smooth mouthfeel. Dry finish with a little bitterness.
Tried
on 09 Sep 2010
at 05:45
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
7% version. Clear brown, puffy beige head. Medium bead. Smoke, caramel, wood, grass. Taste has caramel and honey sweetness (although I suppose the honey is just a brain misfire due to having had tea-tree honey), a touch of lager sourness and plenty of smoke. I didn’t really get any sense of bacon or ham. Slightly sticky mouthfeel. Alcohol dangerously well-hidden. Interesting smoke character adds a local touch to what is otherwise a pretty German-tasting brew. Could be more smoke and it lacks the depth of some smoked beers, but this is a solid drop.
Tried
on 24 Jul 2010
at 07:25
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Bottled. A light golden cider. The aroma has notes of sweet apples. The flavor is sweet with notes of boring apples, leading to a lightly tart finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Apr 2010
at 13:25
6.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Dark pink color. No head. Very pugenent, but wonderful boysenberry nose. A touch of dark chocolate in the mouth with lots of boysenberries. Spritzy. Well balanced. Enjoyable.
Tried
on 19 Dec 2009
at 14:10
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Re-rate, aged 1.5yrs, which really helped this beer IMO. Tons of smoked Gouda. Very big malty backbone. Malty. Rating is blended Peaty, smokey nose with a touch of manuka honey. The mouth is unbalanced with only a faint hint of smokey and honey. Sweet. Much more like a Scotch ale than anything else. OK.
Tried
on 19 Dec 2009
at 13:10