Subsidiaries
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cloudy red amber with a lasting off-white head. Aroma dominated by apricot hops, with spice and alcohol mixed in. Sweet and fruity flavour, with herbal, grass, apricot notes. Good hop bitterness, yet the sweetness gets cloying.
Tried
on 22 Sep 2008
at 15:33
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Ruby brown beer with a small white head. Aroma has malt, walnuts and fine vintage port. Sweet with syrup, nut, and port flavours, nice vineous alcohol causing a drying finish
Tried
on 22 Sep 2008
at 15:30
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Amber with a big and lasting white head. Spicy ginger aroma with a touch of clove. Dry ginger flavour with some alcohol showing and just a pinch of maltiness. Both rye malt and weizen yeast are lost in ginger.
Tried
on 22 Sep 2008
at 15:26
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Reddish brown with a laqsting white head. Aroma has citrus hops, a little spice (pepper?), some fruitiness, and a nettle-like herbal note. The flavour has all the right stuff - fruitiness, hops, malt in great balance between sweetness and bitterness. Traditional, but well designed. Lingering bready malt finish.
Tried
on 22 Sep 2008
at 15:24
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cloudy red brown colour with a lasting, slightly pink head. Aroma first delivers raspberries, then some strawberry and a little malt and yeast in the background. (Too) sweet fruity flavour with a little tartness and a touch of drying tannin improving the finish.
Tried
on 22 Sep 2008
at 14:48
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6
Cloudy amber with a small white head. Aroma is herbal and a little nutty, with dusty and yeasty touches. Sweet and alcohol filled flavour with a malty and nutty finish that could be sunflower seeds.
Tried
on 22 Sep 2008
at 14:44
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Cloudy amber with a bubbly off-white head., Aroma is strong peaches, a natural and fresh peach aroma, not candy. Some soft caramel, and maybe even cream in the background. Very sweet, with a little tart peach note, and again some caramel. The finish is fruit and licorice mix. It’s a bit of a mess of flavours with tart fruit, caramel and licorice, and it’s cloying sweet, but I have to respect the very impressive strength and quality of the peach aroma.
Tried
from Can
on 22 Sep 2008
at 14:41
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 9
750ml graciously shared by Tom aka CaptainCougar. Thanks man! This is really a memorable beer. Highly aromatic, like a Christmas tree doused in a sticky IIPA. Piny spruce madness. The alcohol is quite well hidden. The taste is all hop, spruce, and the associated flavors that come with that territory. Excellent beer.
Tried
on 01 Sep 2008
at 22:22
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
On tap at HopCat, Grand Rapids. Pulpy orange-brown body, thin creamy buff head. Potent potpourri-like nose with coriander and pepper notes. The coriander and especially peppercorns dominate the body, giving the beer a slight burn, strange and interesting. Bready wheat notes lurk beneath the sharp spices. Probably best enjoyed as a half-pint.
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Aug 2008
at 23:18
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Thanks to mibirder for this - dark ruby, nearly black beer, with a soapy tan lace - strongly roasty aroma, with moderate tart cherries and some tobacco - creamy mouthfeel - dry, roasty, almost smoky flavor - unlike the aroma, the cherry is very hard to pick out, but the char, tobacco and smoke come through quite a bit - as it warms, the cherries become a bit more noticeable, and add a slight tannic quality - pretty nice, but not at all what I was expecting.
Tried
on 31 Jul 2008
at 19:28