Subsidiaries
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Bottle @ home, shared with LeninCat. Thanks to Adam for sending. Pours a deep ruby orange appearance with a thin tan head. Burnt sugar / caramel, dark fruits / raisin / plum in the aroma. Full bodied, thick molasses feel. Syrupy / gooey caramel / toffee flavor. High sweetness. Low to moderate bitterness. Some cookie like notes along with a bit of spicy hops. Finishes pretty smoothly. Not super impressive but not bad. LeninCat ticks this 3/5.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Mar 2014
at 18:33
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 10
Overall 6.5
Bottle: Pours deep brown-red with a small beige head. Roasty malt, caramel scent. Taste is sweet, crisp, toasted malt. Actually, pretty good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jan 2014
at 17:14
5.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Pours clear, honey gold with a thin, off-white head. Sweet grain and honey aroma. Taste is sweet..light honey and lemon. Grain, mild grassy bitter....floral. Ok,.....does have a decent German feel to it.
Tried
on 21 Jan 2014
at 17:51
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottled (backlog, as Sundown Dark Beer), had@Monks Café, Stockholm. Brown colour with a mediumsized beige famy head, that leaves some lace. Aroma is chocolaty, nutty, toasted and also has some slight perfumed notes to it. Flavour is toasted malts, some metallic notes along with some slight chocolate and toffee.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Dec 2013
at 02:47
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Bottle. Light grainy malt aroma. Slightly hazy pale gold with a moderate white head. Grainy malt and grassy flavor. Light body, moderate carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Dec 2013
at 14:29
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Draft at the Berghoff. So how is 6% considered a strong ale? Anyway, Dark malt color with a thin head. Smell is malty and a little sweet, like molasses cookie dough. Nice thick mouthfeel from those sweet malts. Tends toward a doppelbock in character. A bit of plum. Malts are just toasty in spite of the darker color. A mostly German hop character. Filling and warming without extra alcohol. Slightly fruity ale finish with some graininess.
Tried
from Draft
on 04 Dec 2013
at 20:34
5.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 8
Overall 6
Nearly clear, amber/brown with a thick, off-white head. Malt, caramel aroma. Taste is sweet, bready caramel. Woody. Rather bland and stale.
Tried
on 16 Sep 2013
at 16:33
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draft at the Berghoff. Clean amber color with a light stream of bubbles feeding a half-finger head. Malty smell that comes through in the taste, but it also carries an impression of salt. I had the same with the DortWunder the day before, and it may be simply the same water profile, which involves some calcium and sodium. So maybe Randy Mosher was going for a "house" lager style. But the malt is fuller to make up for it, and the hops are lighter as befits the style. I will have to try to dunkel to see if they do share some traits.
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Sep 2013
at 21:17
7.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
I admit to liking it just a little more because I’m having it on draft at The Berghoff. Clean lager color, a thin foam ring around the edge. Light malt smell with a bit of pils character to it. Clean crisp "Special Export" taste that shows a hard water profile and puts German hops on the sides of my tongue. Hop bitterness builds with each sip. Now a much improved and very distinctive all-malt flagship beer.
Tried
from Draft
on 10 Sep 2013
at 19:24
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Barley malt and hay aroma. Amber with moderate head. Sweet barley malt and mildly bitter herbal hops flavor. Drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Sep 2013
at 19:46