5.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 4
Draft. Clear brown color, bright white edge head. Aroma of lightly toasted caramel. Taste is dilute sweet caramel.
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Aug 2012
at 14:21
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Bottle. Beer of the month club. Clear brown with a beige head. Malty aroma with caramel, nuts and chocolate. Sweet flavor, a bit sugary, with caramel, nutty malt, bread notes (a bit toasty), a sourish touch and a dry finish, a bit metallic. Light-medium-bodied, a bit over-carbonated. So-so.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Aug 2012
at 15:02
2.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 2
Texture 2
Overall 2
Bottle shared with cousins on Martha’s Vineyard, MA. Pours clear brown with a soft, beige foam head. Smells infected and tastes VERY infected. All kinds of tangy, almost soure fruits. What a bummer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Aug 2012
at 17:32
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle shared with Chuck on the Vineyard. Pours clear, light brown-red with a small, beige foam head. Nose is mostly dark bread with hints of caramel. Medium sweet flavor with light roasted malts, slightly burnt bread, lightly sugary caramel, with slightly bitter, burnt leaves. Light to medium bodied with average carbonation. Very mild dry finish with plenty of dark toast and mild, burnt caramel. Maple character only comes through via a mild sugariness. Overall, the it’s just OK.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Aug 2012
at 15:40
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle opens with a pop and reveals a huge amount of carbonation. Pours a slightly cloudy dark golden color with a huge off white head that takes forever to recede and slicks itself all the way down the glass. Smells of grassy resiny fruity and floral hops with a weird buttery smell. The flavor is resinous and bitter with a tart fruity butter flavor that at first was off putting but over the course of the glass I got used to. Dry bitter finish that lingers for quite a while. Medium to thin body with an asinine level of carbonation and a tart resinous mouthfeel. Meh. Nothing horrible here, but nothing all that great either. Oh and Diacetyl rest!
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Aug 2012
at 15:11
4.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4
Bottle. Beer of the month club. Clear golden with a white head. Grainy aroma with diacetyl and a bit of floral hops. Sweetish flavor, a bit buttery, with some malt and a bitter finish, a bit weird and unpleasant, with fruity and floral notes and some graininess. Medium-bodied. Not so good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Aug 2012
at 13:32
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
I’ll start by saying I’m not a real big fan of this brewery. However, I got a 22 oz. bottle at a cost of $4.25 @ Gary’s Beverage. So At that price I was willing to give them another chance. Used an English pint glass showing me deep brown/ nearly black liquid with nice full, dense tan head. Plenty of retention. The nose was nice enough with Roasted oat and light chocolate. Unfortunately that’s the highlight of the experience. Flavor of butter, light roast, and diacetyl. Thin body with an unpleasant butter taste that should not be found in any stout. If I knew they used Ringwood yeast in this brew, I would not have purchased it. FYI, bottle best before date Sept 2012.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 May 2012
at 18:11
5.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5
Pours a fairly solid black color with a creamy tan head on top. Smells a bit sweet, roasty with chocolate, caramel butterscotch and earthy hops playing supporting roles. The taste is kind of a mess. Roasted grains atop a mountain of butterscotch gives a really unpleasant burnt toffee kind of taste to it. Medium body and level of carbonation with a sweet burnt mouthfeel. I couldn’t finish this one and the rest of the bottle ended up down the drain. If your going to play with ringworm yeast do a diacetyl rest or something to quell that horrible buttery aroma and flavor.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Mar 2012
at 17:44
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Pours light mahogany into a Sam glass. Soapy tan head with good retention recedes leaving scant spiders. Sour bread aromas. Sour chocolate and earthy resin front to back. Lasting milk chocolate finish.
Tried
from Can
on 17 Mar 2012
at 15:17
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pours mahogany-tinged black into a Sam glass. Mocha head with little retention recedes to skim rim. Chocolate and earthy hay aromas. Medium bodied leaning to sharpness in the dark chocolate covered pit fruit upfront turning chalky in the lasting finish.
Tried
on 16 Mar 2012
at 17:56