3.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 3
Overall 4
355mL can, pours a muddy dark brown with a small tan head. Aroma smells like banana cola – like the second runnings of the shitty imperial banana stout from last year, but without the barrel. Flavour is very light, with plenty of cola and unpleasant banana puree. Totally lifeless body, with a very unpleasant banana character. Embarrassing product.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Feb 2025
at 04:15
4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 4
355mL can. Pours dark brown with an off-white head. Marshmallow banana, chocolate, and a weird malt character on the nose. Flavour is thin, fake marshmallow bananas, rice paper malts. Mouthfeel is thin and oily. This is sad, I don't understand why the brewery would release this.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Feb 2025
at 00:18
4.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
On tap the Magnet, pours an opaque dark muddy orange with a small white head. Aroma has some car exhaust, chalkiness, and stone fruit pith. Flavour is muddy, with pithy stone fruits, chalkiness, and a touch of dankness. Pithy, fruity and muddy. Not a disaster but not good.
Tried
from Draft
at
The Magnet
on 26 Jan 2025
at 04:01
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can, Legacy. Hazy, dullish sort of colour, like a dirty blonde sort of thing. The aroma is full of mango and pineapple, with a bit of underlying yeastiness. Full body, but just a light bitterness that showcases a slightly grapefruity element. It's always pretty funny to drink an IPA where the type of hop doesn't matter that much, but this particular grapefruit note blends fairly well with the pineapple and mango accents. This has a bit of yeast, a touch of alcohol, but mostly just a lot of fruitiness, and mellow hop character. I like it - not sure I'd use the term IPA in any form, but it's definitely a tasty strong fruit ale. Re-rate, May 10th. I have upgraded the score from 3.4 to 3.7, because I've found myself buying it, drinking it and enjoying it. On the first pass, it was fine, but there's something that is drawing me to this beer. It's probably the way that the fruit is gently integrated that's the key.
Tried
on 22 Jan 2025
at 17:59
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
12 oz. can, pours a deep dark mahogany with a small beige head. Aroma has gently smoky bourbon, dark sugars, sticky toffee, and oak. Flavour is dominated by the smoky bourbon barrels (sort of tobacco-y), followed by woody oak, dark dried fruits, and toffee. Real nice smoky barrel character. Great stuff.
Tried
from Can
on 07 Jan 2025
at 04:09
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Seems a fitting beer to have today after reading latest RB forum news… 355 ml can. Pours a dark brown with no head. Aromas of dark caramel, oak, bourbon and dry bready malts. Flavors follow same with less ok, more sweet caramel and additional raisins. Warm and quite sweet, but not showing 14%. Very good.
Tried
from Can
on 22 Dec 2024
at 00:11
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can from the brewery
Dark chestnut colour, with no reflexes, and no head, even after an aggressive pour. Aroma of malt, caramel, toffee, a bit earthy, light liquorice. Full bodied; sweet but not syrupy; low carbonation, but with strong alcohol punch; flavour of caramel, toffee, vanilla, but I remember more malt depth in previous iterations. It seems more oxidized than I expected.
A bit too hot, but you won't find another malty Barley Wine for this price, around here.
Dark chestnut colour, with no reflexes, and no head, even after an aggressive pour. Aroma of malt, caramel, toffee, a bit earthy, light liquorice. Full bodied; sweet but not syrupy; low carbonation, but with strong alcohol punch; flavour of caramel, toffee, vanilla, but I remember more malt depth in previous iterations. It seems more oxidized than I expected.
A bit too hot, but you won't find another malty Barley Wine for this price, around here.
Tried
from Can
on 21 Dec 2024
at 22:23
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Poured from 355mL can (released 2024, abv listed as 14.1%, can has 3YR stamped on it; thanks fiulijn). Their Instagram copy and pasted the Basil Hayden description so that's useless, especially when the can label clearly states Heaven Hill (Twin Sails is known for lazy errors like this). So the question is, since it's significantly different ABV, does the 3YR connotate that it was aged 3 years in HH barrels? It's not clear in written form... Anyway... Very dark brown with small dissipating beige head. American oak, toffee, dark fruits, smooth bourbon, feint vanilla, quite balanced. Quite good.
Tried
from Can
on 21 Dec 2024
at 07:34
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
12oz (thx, Alex!) @ Ryan's shared with Peter. Appearance: dark brown with a beige head. Aroma: a lot of American oak, caramel, some dark fruits. Taste: along the same lines, full-bodied, caramel, American oak, vanilla, some nice dark fruit (like figs) character in the finish, creamy. Overall: good one.
Tried
from Can
on 21 Dec 2024
at 07:30
8.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
355mL can. Pours very dark brown with small beige head. Aroma has nice bread crust malts, toffee, a touch of molasses, raisins, and a good amount of bourbon. Flavour is rich and complex, lots of bread crust and bourbon barrels, toffee, raisins. Mouthfeel is thick and smooth. Very nice.
Tried
from Can
on 07 Dec 2024
at 02:01