Leighton (34941) reviewed Premium Lager from Olde Saratoga Brewing 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle. Poured a lovely penny-red with a thin, pure white head. Earthy, malty aroma with hints of sweet candies. Flavor is rich with note of caramel and honey. Medium bodied with good carbonation. Finish is sweet and slightly bitter. Nice beer.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottled. A pitch black beer witih a brown head. The aroma is sweet with notes of malt, wood, and soy sauce. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, caramel, and soy sauce, leading to a bitter finish. Thanks Papsoe for sharing.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
12oz bottle @Tampa Wkly Gathering–shared by gunhaver, pours a light tan ring for a head and black color. Aroma is dark malt, dark fruit. Taste is daek malt-roasty/ashy, dark fruit, some acidic hops. Nice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Huge thanks to matta for scoring me this 05/06 Mendocino Winter IIPA. It pours hazy copper through and through with thin off white head. The aroma has solid malt components of roast and malty sweetness with aged hops in the background. I get faint hints of hop spice, vague citrus and earthiness. The taste is smooth and sweet to start and quickly livens up with a robust yet blunted pulse of citrus hops, pine hops and a moment or two of earthiness. The citrus and pine run the flavor profile front to back given little ground to the full and blended malt bill. The hops are a shadow of their former selves but still deliver moderate bitterness and tasty hop flavor. Zero sense of the ABV.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
courtesy of gunhaver. pours black, tan head with nice golden lacing. Taste of roasted malts and caramel, coffee with light bitter chocolate finish and warming mouthfeel. That was some amazing beer, not overly complex but highly drinkable.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Black with medium beige head. Sweet aroma with hard roasted malt, coffee and chocolate notes. Sweet flavor with hard roasted malt, caramel, coffee, wood and dark bitter chocolate. Low carbonation. Ends bitter.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle 355ml.Clear medium black color with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, light brown head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, chocolate, coffee, wood. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and bitter with a long to average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat to soft. (130608)
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
(Bottle 35,5 cl) Courtesy of boboski. Pours completely pitch black with a dense light brown head. Burned malty nose with some vanilla. Medium in body with lots of burned malt and distinct coffee notes. Malty bitter finish. Is a little low in carbonation. 130608
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
12 fl oz bottle. Pours deep black with a lacing tan head. Alcohol dense and light spiced roasted malt aroma. Flavour is roasted towards smoked and smoothend by a chocolate malt presence. Ends smooth roasted malt and with little bitterness.
Drake (22934) reviewed Premium Lager from Olde Saratoga Brewing 17 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Bottle from Market Street Wine Shop Downtown Charlottesville. Pours a slightly hazy red with medium fizzy head that quickly disappears. Crisp grainy aroma that has a subtle hint of bitterness. Taste is hop bitterness, grain, caramel. This is nice.