5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Taster at GABS Sydney 2015. A bit sour for my liking and not a lot of wheatyness. But it does have a umami edge to it which keeps you interested. It’s OK but it’s not great.
Tried
on 23 Jun 2015
at 03:39
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
(Bottle) Clear deep mahogany brown with thin short-lived off-white head. Unusual, interesting and pleasant aroma - toasted nuts and coconut, chocolate, hints of toffee and slight vegetable / seaweed notes. Light body, fizzy coarse carbonation. Rather odd taste - toasted coconut is dominant at the start and through into the mid palate. However a rather harsh metallic, maybe stewed black coffee, bitterness develops as the coconut fades, continuing into a really quite unpleasant finish. As long as you take another sip as the coconut fades, it’s fine! There’s some toffee notes underlying these flavours. Overall, it’s unusual, inventive, worth trying, but not right.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Jun 2015
at 08:01
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Pours gold with a white head.Nose shows passion fruit and lychee, little else.More fruit as flavours at first before transferring to a somewhat unpleasant macro-like grainy, cardboard-ish character.
Tried
on 26 May 2015
at 08:42
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Amber with a fading white head. Aroma of caramel and bread, kumquats and grapefruit. Quite light bodied and this makes the sweet malt quite welcome. Moderate citrus and earthy notes, dryish with fairly low bitterness. A refreshing low key quaffer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Apr 2015
at 06:43
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Amber with an inch of off white head that lasts well. Aroma of mandarins, pine, crusty bread, lychees. Creamy texture, moderate carbonation. Sweet with bread, a little caramel, tropical fruit, mandarins, a little pine. Moderate bitterness could bite a little more for me and would were the finish a little drier. Not all that hop driven, but a pleasant and fairly complex beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Jan 2015
at 06:10
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Pours cloudy amber with a fading head.Nose shows bananas, lychee, papaya and loads of wheat. Pretty much a hefe with hops.Flavours include banana and wheat biscuit notes. Not much hops but there is a reasonable bitterness.
Tried
on 08 Jan 2015
at 20:35
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
(Can) Slightly hazy golden with loose short-lived white head. Pleasant aroma - citrus with yeasty and grassy hints. Medium body and reasonable carbonation. Taste starts with some malty, almost sugary, sweetness well balanced with some fruity (citrus, hints of banana) tang. This mellows on the mid palate to a light malty sweetness and then some rather harsh bitterness kicks in in the finish. Overall it’s rather odd in terms of style, but generally works well, although the bitterness is rather too harsh.
Tried
from Can
on 18 Dec 2014
at 06:31
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
From a 330ml bottle on 12/12/2014. Pours a cloudy very dark golden with a small head. Has a light sweet fruity aroma. Flavour wise, there’s a fair bit of toasty malt and lots more sweet fruit (hints of citrus, stone and tropical), with a bit of a tang noticeable. There’s a moderate hop bitterness at the back but it doesn’t really present as an IPA to me. It’s more a curious cross between and amber and pale ale. If you can forget that it erroneously self identifies itself an IPA, it’s actually not to bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Dec 2014
at 03:14
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours black with a large tan head.Nose shows vanilla, soft roasted malt, oatmeal and light coffee. Very tempting.Flavours include more dry soft roast with the vanilla leading to a balanced sweetness. Big chocolate notes. Moreish.Nice moderate carbonation and body. --- Beer aliased from original tick of Dark Deeds Midwinter on 09 Aug 2024 at 12:20 - Score: Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8. Original review text: Nose shows chocolate fudge, roasted malt, sultanas, figs.Flavours include chocolate, cocoa, soft booze.Lovely creamy body.
Tried
on 23 Jul 2014
at 04:08
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
(Bottle) Very dark brown with excellent tan head. Little aroma, but pleasant - faintly porter. Medium body with velvety creamy carbonation. Taste is mainly a regular porter with interesting vanilla notes that appear in the mid palate and slowly tail off. There’s a good amount if bitterness in the finish. The start has some toffee sweetness. A nice beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jul 2014
at 06:09