8

12 grapes for New year's, except in a beer. Extra tart grapes. Damn freezer fridge, gotta wait for this to warm up. At proper drinking temperature it's not as tart, light tanin back and sweet front.

7

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle pours out black topped with a tan head. Nose is big bourbon barrel char ash notes sad that the hazelnut and vanilla is not more. Taste is more of the big ash barrel char notes light hazelnut and vanilla chocolate.

8

Syncing up missed gabf check-ins. Tastes just like a peach cobbler, so good.

4.8

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Pours a flat reddish brown from a bottle, opaque and slightly hazy. Tart berry aroma, flavor is bitter and tart, with a lingering sweetness. Medium body, totally flat. Meh.

8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Got in a trade with GreenBayBA. 16 ounce can into tulip glass, no can dating. Pours lightly hazy/cloudy deep reddish orange/copper color with a 1 finger fairly dense and fluffy cream colored head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty spotty lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of big red/black/green tea, caramel, brown sugar, brown bread, and toasted biscuit; with lighter notes of nuttiness, toffee, roast, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of tea, dark/bready malts, and light-moderate earthy hop notes; with great strength. Taste of big red/black/green tea, caramel, brown sugar, brown bread, and toasted biscuit; with lighter notes of nuttiness, toffee, roast, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Light-moderate herbal, floral, grassy, spicy bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of red/black/green tea, caramel, brown sugar, brown bread, toasted biscuit, light nutty/toffee/roast, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a while. Great complexity, robustness, and balance of tea, dark/bready malts, and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance, and no cloying/astringent flavors after the finish. Lightly increasing dryness from lingering hop/tea bitterness. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, moderately creamy/bready/grainy, and fairly sticky balanced mouthfeel that is great. Minimal warming alcohol for 6.5%. Overall this is an excellent spiced amber ale! All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of tea, dark/bready malts, and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; very smooth and easy to drink for the ABV with the mellowly bitter finish. Really nailed this one, was not sure what to expect. Perfectly balanced mix of brewed teas and red ale malt complexity; with nice earthy hop presence. A very enjoyable offering, and spot on base style example.

7

Fell out of the fridge too many times and popped early. Ultra funky oaky foader juice. Mellows out after a bit, hints of dark chocolate with the raspberry. Bottle 234/300.

8

Bottle #108, like a mini CBS, bit thin but strong maple syrup flavor, doesn't hide the boozy as well either with a strong roasted/burnt coffee bitter after.

8.2

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Bomber from Tavour. Pours inky black with a thin tan head. Aroma is mostly maple syrup, but there are hints of coffee, chocolate, licorice. Taste is fairly sweet and a tad bitter with flavors matching the aroma. Breakfast in a glass for sure. Great beer on a par with CBS.

8.2

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Keg at the brewery. Clear copper, large creamy tan head, good retention. Aroma of resin, strawberry, tropical fruit. Taste is tropical fruit, resin, pine, pale malt. Medium bodied, lingering bitterness.

8.2

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Keg at the brewery. Clear copper, thin fizzy head, good retention. Aroma of toffee, citrus, mandarins, lime. Taste is bitter resin, tropical fruit, mango, pale malt. Medium bodied, lingering bitterness.