8/10
Roasted dark malty with prominent coffee roast, caramel and toffee, ashy roast, charred brown sugar, dark malty lingering coffee infused finish. Lovely.
Tried
from Cask
on 26 Mar 2025
at 11:39
7.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pours murky mango into a tulip. Bright white head with medium retention recedes to mottle surface. Mango, passion fruit and papaya aromas. Thick with sweet mango, passion fruit and melon upfront turning to hot papaya and orange juice in the medium length finish.
Tried
on 26 Mar 2025
at 01:36
7.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can from New England Wine & Spirits, Newburyport. Lightly hazy, maple syrup brown with nice sparkle, thin head with fair retention and trace lacing. Aroma is strong roasted malts. Taste is strong roasted malt, hint of toffee. Smooth, creamy, frothy texture, soft carbonation and finish as taste. Not very complex but good strength.
Tried
from Can
on 23 Mar 2025
at 00:30
7.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 10
Overall 6
Tap, courtesy of the LB guys. Jet black pour with a beige head. Nose is super intense notes of peanut butter, coffee, chocolate, and mostly hazelnut. Taste is similar but not as intense (drawback of using aromas), there’s coffee, vanilla, chocolate and nutty notes. A slightly more dry than expected but the body is still fairly smooth, and light, with a soft carbonation. Undoubtedly tasty but I’m still not a fan of aromas in beer.
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Mar 2025
at 11:56
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 7
Canned 11/20/24, drunk 3/6/25.
Probably clear, hard to tell. Dark. Burgundy edges. Tan head fizzles steadily away within 10 seconds.
I held on to this as long as I could stand it but I want to try it, so with about 3.5 months on it, here goes...rich, roasty, crunchy peanut butter is pleasant, maybe not so much more intense or aromatic than the base version, though. But clean, with no excess sugar or lactose impressions. Some prune-and-grape-like acidity on the very end easily balances. No booze noted.
Rich, soft, somewhat sweet, though far from problematically so. Not syrupy and with an abundant acidity that seems to suggest prune, raisin and concord grape. Peanut butter is savory, clean and well-presented. Yeah, this is nice stuff and not too sweet which is the important part. A good amount of flavor and body for its size without being overdone in any one category. If there's any complaint I have, maybe the complexity is a bit lacking, but I don't think that's something this beer is really trying to highlight. I don't know, there's still just missing here and I can't quite put my finger on it.
Probably clear, hard to tell. Dark. Burgundy edges. Tan head fizzles steadily away within 10 seconds.
I held on to this as long as I could stand it but I want to try it, so with about 3.5 months on it, here goes...rich, roasty, crunchy peanut butter is pleasant, maybe not so much more intense or aromatic than the base version, though. But clean, with no excess sugar or lactose impressions. Some prune-and-grape-like acidity on the very end easily balances. No booze noted.
Rich, soft, somewhat sweet, though far from problematically so. Not syrupy and with an abundant acidity that seems to suggest prune, raisin and concord grape. Peanut butter is savory, clean and well-presented. Yeah, this is nice stuff and not too sweet which is the important part. A good amount of flavor and body for its size without being overdone in any one category. If there's any complaint I have, maybe the complexity is a bit lacking, but I don't think that's something this beer is really trying to highlight. I don't know, there's still just missing here and I can't quite put my finger on it.
Tried
from Can
from
Crafted
on 06 Mar 2025
at 22:57
6.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Can at home. Orange caramel colored. Nose is pine and caramel. Tastes of orange citrus, pine, caramel, bitter chemical. Not great
Tried
on 03 Mar 2025
at 04:54
7.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
16 oz. can traded by tfontana. Thanks Tom. Canned 11/26/24. Aroma has soft peach, light grapefruit. Flavor so some fruit upfront papaya, and Leche fruit. In the back end it has some bitter grapefruit. Secondary pineapple. Hard to find Sabro. The coconut has faded. Nice!
Tried
from Can
on 16 Feb 2025
at 17:18
7.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7
16 oz. can traded by tfontana, thanks Tom. Normal amount of carbonation. Aroma is weak chocolate and English ale yeast. Flavor is that of an English Brownell. Has a little bit of a stringent bitterness in a medium- light body. In the world of simplistic brown ales, this is about average.
Tried
from Can
on 16 Feb 2025
at 17:15
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7
Can (11/26/24) from New England Wine & Spirits. Cloudy, dark yellow, tons of sparkle, good head, excellent retention, soapy lacing. Aroma is papaya. Taste is papaya, candied fruit. Frothy, creamy texture, soft carbonation, finish as taste. Good strength but pretty one note.
Tried
from Can
on 16 Feb 2025
at 03:29
7.9/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
16 oz can. Dated: 01/23/24. Aroma is citrus with mild cantaloupe. The flavor has underlying melon over some bitter citrus peel. Steady amount of bitterness to balance the fruit. Very close to top tier.
Tried
from Can
from
Bier Cellar
on 09 Feb 2025
at 03:18