5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Taster pour at Powder Keg Beer and Chili Festival. Appearance is opaque black with thin ring of light brown head. Aroma is roasted malts, hints of chocolate, dark fruits perhaps. Taste is roasted malt but there is a tart heaviness here. Palate is light bodied with thin texture, soft carbonation and mild roasted malts but dominated by a tart quality finish. Overall, something went amiss here. The tart quality does not belong and isn't good. Didn't finish.
Tried
on 15 Oct 2017
at 21:23
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Taster pour at Powder Keg Beer and Chili Festival. Appearance is cloudy dark brown, with finger-width beige head with good retention, lacing. Aroma is vaguely sweet, caramel, nuts. Taste is surprisingly fruity (grape?), and bready more than caramel; nuts. A little odd for a nut brown. Palate is medium bodied with watery texture, flat-to-soft carbonation and finish as taste. Overall, a pretty "unique" (or odd, depending on your perspective) fruit quality but otherwise the usual suspects are here. Fairly average.
Tried
on 15 Oct 2017
at 21:16
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle pour into nonic pint glass from Hannaford, Raymond. Appearance is cloudy light orange/dark yellow with trace sparkle, finger-width foamy white head with poor retention and minimal lacing. Aroma is brown sugar, sweet malts, with fruity, citrusy hops, some faint basement dankness. Taste is citrusy orange with slight sourness over malt backbone. Palate is light bodied with thin texture, soft carbonation and mix of sweet and bitter finish with light sour tinge. Overall, aroma and taste shine while appearance and palate pale (no pun intended) by comparison.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Feb 2017
at 18:45
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Treated as an American strong ale due to ABV, this was poured into a snifter.
The appearance was a rustic burnt orange to brown color with a deep haze around the body and a finger’s worth of white foamy head that dissipated at a nice pace. Slim lacing running all around the glass.
The aroma had some brown sugar, nutty malts and toffee blending decently with some light expected booziness to it.
The flavor leans to the sweet side with the previously mentioned aromas blending nicely. Sweet boozy nuts in the aftertaste and finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a nice sipping quality to it. Carbonation feels good for the style and shapes a fair stickiness about it.
Overall, good as an American strong ale, but not as a brown ale. Still, I would come back to.
The appearance was a rustic burnt orange to brown color with a deep haze around the body and a finger’s worth of white foamy head that dissipated at a nice pace. Slim lacing running all around the glass.
The aroma had some brown sugar, nutty malts and toffee blending decently with some light expected booziness to it.
The flavor leans to the sweet side with the previously mentioned aromas blending nicely. Sweet boozy nuts in the aftertaste and finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a nice sipping quality to it. Carbonation feels good for the style and shapes a fair stickiness about it.
Overall, good as an American strong ale, but not as a brown ale. Still, I would come back to.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Nov 2016
at 10:06
4.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Poured into an English pub glass, the appearance was a murky dark brown close to black. Finger’s worth of white foamy head that dissipated immediately. Sliding lace.
The aroma is earthy, grainy, burnt to roasty, some toast, coffee grounds and burnt cocoa beans. Cooked dark fruits.
The flavor has a rugged cooked malty semi-sweet earthiness to it. Dark fruits present that cooked taste, hmmmmm....the aftertaste is the same and lingers on in the finish.
On the palate, it was light to medium bodied with an okay sessionability about it, if one can look past the cooked dark fruitiness. Decent carbonation.
Overall, something about this beer makes me not want to come back to. I mean I don’t mind the English styles, but if an American brewer tries their hand at one, please do it clean and correct. I really don’t see myself coming back to this.
The aroma is earthy, grainy, burnt to roasty, some toast, coffee grounds and burnt cocoa beans. Cooked dark fruits.
The flavor has a rugged cooked malty semi-sweet earthiness to it. Dark fruits present that cooked taste, hmmmmm....the aftertaste is the same and lingers on in the finish.
On the palate, it was light to medium bodied with an okay sessionability about it, if one can look past the cooked dark fruitiness. Decent carbonation.
Overall, something about this beer makes me not want to come back to. I mean I don’t mind the English styles, but if an American brewer tries their hand at one, please do it clean and correct. I really don’t see myself coming back to this.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Nov 2016
at 09:32
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
650 mL bottle purchased at Greg & Jane’s Epping, NH. Pours a dark brown with full frothy head. Aroma is earthy grain, weak roast, nuts and soil.
Not bottling date any place on the bottle or label. The flavor was OK except for a slight off sour note in the finish. Mild roast with an earthy grain though out the sip. Body and carbonation level are good. However, the sour note makes it almost undrinkable. It throws off the entire balance of the beer.
Not bottling date any place on the bottle or label. The flavor was OK except for a slight off sour note in the finish. Mild roast with an earthy grain though out the sip. Body and carbonation level are good. However, the sour note makes it almost undrinkable. It throws off the entire balance of the beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Oct 2016
at 19:53
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
22oz bottle. Tan-brown. A-nice roast, med malt. T-roast/slight nutty-med malt, some earth hop offest.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jun 2016
at 14:39
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle from Jcwattsrugger - Pours dark brown tan head - nose/taste of light bourbon, diet chocolate brownie, oak and cocoa - medium body
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Apr 2016
at 23:48
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Bert’s Deep brown with the faintest of garnet at the edges and a bubbly tan head that slowly recedes to a cap on top. Chocolate roast and smoke with an earthy hop edge. Light caramel fruit and ash. Nice bold porter, a bit on the smokey side for my tastes, but well made.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Nov 2015
at 20:01
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
22oz bottle-lt tan-hazy to cloudy gold. A-sweet lt/med malt-bready, some pine. T-pine/spruce upfront, joined by sweet/bready-lt/med malt. Nice, easy, towards med body beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Aug 2015
at 21:49