5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Dark brown coloured body with a thinnish, single centimetre tall tan head. Aroma of cereal, grain, toffee, earth, malt, alcohol and a bit of light fruits. Medium-bodied; Strong toffee and caramel flavours with a bit of grain, some light alcohol notes, but a bit of rye and specialty grains along with some lighter funk from the yeast and residual yeast. Aftertaste shows the grain, alcohol, toffee, earth and especially nutty flavours with no real offsetting flavours - pungent and strong. Overall, a pretty poor beer that doesn’t show much hops, no real complexities, just bitterness and a bit of deep malty notes - more of a scotch ale than anything else. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Liqour Outlet in Boonton, New Jersey on 22-December-2015 for US$1,61 sampled at home in Washington on 09-October-2016.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Oct 2016
at 14:30