8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Sample at GTMW 2023, 8/12/23. Clear copper, large off-white head, good retention. Aroma of green, dank, earth, pale malt. Taste is grapefruit, dank, pale malt. Well balanced.
Tried
on 28 Aug 2023
at 03:46
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Can at home, Espoo. Colour is Very dark brown with small slightly brownish head. Aromas and flavors: Coffee, sugary sweetness...
Tried
from Can
on 16 Jun 2023
at 19:15
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
From backlog. Sweet and sticky with loads of coffee, some chocolate, cocoa, vanilla, syrup and earthiness. Too sweet.
Tried
on 05 Jun 2023
at 18:05
7/10
Sweet and sticky with loads of coffee, some chocolate, cocoa, vanilla, syrup and earthiness. Too sweet.
Tried
from Can
on 18 May 2023
at 21:21
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
(Can, 0.355l, thanks tiong, at VastActiv, 20230518) The beer poured oily and black. Its head was small and lightly brown. Aroma had burnt malts, dark chocolate and creamy coffee. Palate was full bodied and warming with medium carbonation. Flavours were burnt malts, coffee, dark chocolate, sweetness and bitterness. Aftertaste had burnt malts, coffee and bitterness. A delicious burnt brew with pleasant coffee notes.
Tried
from Can
on 18 May 2023
at 18:26
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pint draft at Orange & Brew. (Just now Hailstorm's description buried on their Facebook page. No info on their website. Will update.) Looks like a basic amber beer, with a nice thin layer of foam. Smell had a bit of perfumey vanilla. Strawberry comes out pretty nicely in the taste. Vanilla becomes a part of the complement. There's a little note of extra tartness that I'm guessing might have been whatever made up the cheesecake. Lactic acid, perhaps. And also some graham cracker crumb.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Feb 2023
at 22:42
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Vladimir, der derzeitige Diktator Russlands (Stand Anfang 2023) ist nicht der einzige brutale Durchgeknallte mit diesem Namen. Es gibt nich den mittelalterlichen Vlad, den Pfähler, der gerne seine Feinde pfählen ließ um dann daneben zu jausnen. Es stand Pate für Bram Stokers Dracula. Es ist mein erstes und vermutlich sehr lange einziges Bier aus der Hailstorm Brewery, das ich mir zu einem saftigen Preis bei einem ukrainischen Online-Bierhändler bestellt hatte. Es ist ein tiefes, pechschwarzes Imperial Stout, das trotz anderer Angabe auf der Dose verdammt trocken und Kakao-ig wirkt. Daszu ordentlich sehr schwarze Schokolade. Einzig der versprochene Kokoston kommt erst, wenn es warm wird im Abgang raus. Durchaus aromatisch und fein, aber vollkommen kann es mich nicht überzeugen.
Tried
on 18 Jan 2023
at 09:33
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Bottle share at Orange & Brew. Not surprising, from the name, that there's a lot of cocoa and vanilla in the nose. Still a few bubbles on the edge of the glass after a pour for a 2-year-old beer. Does indeed taste like a chocolate chip cookie, with a little extra cookie sugar. Any bourbon in this is way in the background. Still, it verges into the chocolate licquer territory. And there ain't nothing wrong with that.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Dec 2022
at 03:39
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Sampled from the tap at GTMW 2022. Pours a cloudy peachy gold with a white head that dissipates quickly to the edges. Aroma has a creamy slightly sour lime with some graham cracker underlying. Flavor has sour lime with lactose and a graham cracker backbone.
Tried
from Draft
on 16 Aug 2022
at 01:59
8/10
Top!
Tried
from Can
on 05 Feb 2022
at 20:02