7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle, many thanks Fin! Hazy orange color with white head. Aroma is spruce, spicy yeast, a touch honey, apricots. Taste is honey, peach, apricots, spicy yeast, sweet finish. Oily-viscous mouthfeel with fizzy-ish carbonation. Good one!
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jun 2021
at 17:37
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from Fin, thanks! Hazy golden blonde, honey (almost like a chestnut hiney I once had) and flowers are apparent, resiny forest, complex! Flavor is a great mixture of honey flavor, but still dry, spruce and hop bitterness on the back end. Acidic tingling on the tongue together with the big carb. Fruity, fantastic!
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jun 2021
at 17:36
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle via Fin, thanks! Medium red, hazy, moderate head. Nose of cherries, raspberry, oak, sour notes. Flavor is amazing, complex and fruity, nice wood tannins, high acidity. If you like strong complex sours, just get it. World class sour!
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 May 2021
at 15:24
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle courtesy of Kostas, Kykao brewery. Had this Friday 30th April 2021 listening to Iggy Confidential on 6Music and then a series on Netflix called Innocents. Pours dark brown/possibly black in colour with a barely any head, sweet, dried fruit such as dates, figs etc dominate the nose. A little boozy but surprisingly easy to drink. I'm not getting much underlying fruity acidity, in fact this is very soft with oodles of residual sweetness, complex and great version of the original, having said that I possibly prefer the original despite what this brings to the party
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 May 2021
at 03:29
8.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle. Thanks Fin! Hazy green, golden, offwhite foam. Sweet perfumed resinny but also fresh floery nose. medium full dry spicy body, good pleasnat chewiness, nice oil/resin layer. Dry wooden, super broad classic hops, clean, citrus, pomelo, grass, sweet resin, pine. Clean, Not cloying in any sense, amazing taste explosion. very very nice! Absolutely brilliant stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Mar 2021
at 19:35
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle. Clear golden color with small white head. Aroma is piney, resinous, pomelo, marmalade. Taste is super clean dry&bitter West Coast IPA, indeed with a strong bitterness and A LOT of flavour. Oily & chewy mouthfeel. What a treat. This is not strong & bitter, it really feels like a 6.5% IPA with more taste. Incredible balance!
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Mar 2021
at 19:33
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle, many thanks to Fin! Rather clear ruby-amber color with off-white head. Aroma is red berries, maraschino cherry, almondy. Taste is vineous strong cocktail cherry again and other red berries, strongly woody finish, a bit tannic. Not too acidic. Lovely and very drinkable!
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Mar 2021
at 18:35
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle, thanks for sharing Fin! Hazy golden red, amber foam. Nice dry wooden, berry - mostly cherry aroma, flowers. Medium body, dry to sour, sparkly. Mon Cheri Feeling, chocolate roast, almond, cherry and blackberry, funky tart finish. Fresh, moreish, very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Mar 2021
at 18:34
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Bottle sample at a tasting at troubles' place. Thanks Tom L. Black. Roast, licorice, coffee, soy sauce, sweetish and umami, bitter finish, some alcohol, full-bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Mar 2021
at 18:02
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Had this Thursday 25th February 2021, listening to Tom Ravenscroft sitting in for Steve Lamaq on 6Music, Loz is cooking a Spaghetti Bolognese. Pours yellow gold with a white head, a tiny bit of sediment in suspension. Spicy on the nose and in the mouth, a little nod towards Pilsner, I even get a little grapefruit, dry, crisp, pushing the boundaries much like the Ganstaller last night. Am I falling in love with Helles (*hoppy)
Tried
on 25 Feb 2021
at 18:22