6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Dark hazy beer; good yellowish rim. Dark malts, roasted, chocolate, some leafy notes in the nose. Roasted malts in the taste as well, bit of pine needle flavour; some dark caramel. Medium bodied, longlasting roasted aftertaste. OK, promessing. If one starts lagering this, I expect a winner.
Tried
on 12 Dec 2004
at 02:21
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Amber-orange, clear (with very bottle-sticking yeast); quite stable, off-white head. Very "beery" nose: malt, some hops - the smell that greets one upon entering a (not-too-smokey) pub. Faint citruspeel. Strange, dry, sweet-bitter taste, with a not exactly welcoming flavour of human sweat. Some ambrée malt is obvious, and a slight spicey touch. At 5.5%, obviously not very dense, but very dry - I suspect a very high attenuation. Technically impressive, but I miss some character here. Again, for a first try much better than "succeeded". Retasted draught at Karakterbierfestival 06/2005 Much more hopbitter, making it outstanding - would score 8/10 for flavour, and 17/20 overall. Very strangely, ’sweat’ impression is there still, but the hops make it palatable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Oct 2004
at 02:07