8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle shared at August THT. Pitch black with a thin espresso head. Notes of vanilla, bourbon, coconut, chocolate, molasses, dark cherries. Full bodied with a soft carbonation and a sticky sweet finish. --- Beer merged from original tick of A Night To End All Dawns on 26 Aug 2016 at 20:25 - Score: 9. Original review text: Vanilla bourbon goodness
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Aug 2016
at 13:23
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at THT thanks to kermis. Black with big light brown head that leaves a big ring. Lots of bourbon, coffee, roasted malts, cognac, dry earthy notes, light tannins. Over medium sweet, medium bitter with a lingering dry tannic finish. Almost full bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Aug 2016
at 13:23
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
bottle shared at August THT. medium creamy tan head. Clear black pour. Some bourbon. Very good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Aug 2016
at 13:21
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle shared at THT. Black with a small beige head. Aroma of big bourbon, vanilla, chocolate, caramel, toffee and molasses. Flavour is heavy sweet. Full bodied with alcohol warmth in the finish and soft carbonation. [26-08-2016]
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Aug 2016
at 10:30
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Draft at La Isla, 7/31/16. Citrus and dank hop aroma. Pine. Bit of pale malt. Nice looking straw colored pour. Balanced flavor, light-medium sweet and light-medium bitter. Nice, but just a hint muted. Solid mouthfeel, soft, clean, and just a touch thinner than expected. Pretty nice.
Tried
from Draft
on 16 Aug 2016
at 18:09
8.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle at New Glarus, thanks! Pours a near clear dark brown with a tan head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has cinnamon and maple with sweet dark grains and light roasted supporting. Flavor has strong cinnamon, roasted malts, coconut and maple with dark grains in the finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Aug 2016
at 10:25
9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle 750ml. (Silver wax). [ As Kane A Night To End All Dawns - Coconut ].Clear dark black color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting to diminishing, beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, sweet malt, roasted, chocolate, coconut, vanilla, Bounty chocolate bar, light alcohol - bourbon. Flavor is heavy sweet and moderate to heavy bitter with a long duration, Bounty chocolate bar, chocolate, coconut, light vanilla. Body is medium to full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft, finish feel is light alcoholic. [20160624]
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Jul 2016
at 05:32
9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
750 ml bottle at Gueuze tasting 2016, Ulfborg. Thanks Jan! Black color with beige brown head. Roasted malty aroma, chocolate, dark and milk chocolate, cookie, cocoa, caramel, toffee, licorice, lots of coconut, spicy, vanilla, wood. Sweet and bitter taste like aroma with spicy alcoholic finish. Full silky almost creamy body with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Jul 2016
at 15:54
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draught at Dino BBQ, Newark, 6/12/16.
Lightly hazy, muted gold body is topped by a moderately well-retained white head.
Candied pineapple, lime and mango in the nose give a strong juicy component, but there’s a spicy, pine-like character as well that throws off a fair amount of resin. Bare biscuit and cracker malts behind it add only a touch of sweetness but do give enough of a palette upon which the hops can work. As it warms and breathes, there is more grain, light honey and some interesting guava and grape notes emerge, with drier pineapple, but a strong white grapefruit component still rears its ugly head. A bit of sharpness from the alcohol but nothing too crazy.
Bitter up front, though not of the sour/hugely resinous variety; not too much anyways. Grapefruit, white grape, lime, lemon and light honey and biscuit to balance with a dextrinous texture and mostly tight carbonation. Good attenuation and there’s some fun here between the amarillo and simcoe fruitiness and light juiciness, but there’s also a fair amount of heavy, heavy citrus and bitterness from the columbus, centennial and simcoe. Why bother boiling simcoe anymore....? That hops way more fun in the whirl and dry phases. I guess they’re going for a more West Coast approach here, which is fine and I do like that it’s "only" 8.2 abv, which seems pretty low for a DIPA these days, but they still need to take it easier on all this resin. Alcohol still shows a bit, as well.
Lightly hazy, muted gold body is topped by a moderately well-retained white head.
Candied pineapple, lime and mango in the nose give a strong juicy component, but there’s a spicy, pine-like character as well that throws off a fair amount of resin. Bare biscuit and cracker malts behind it add only a touch of sweetness but do give enough of a palette upon which the hops can work. As it warms and breathes, there is more grain, light honey and some interesting guava and grape notes emerge, with drier pineapple, but a strong white grapefruit component still rears its ugly head. A bit of sharpness from the alcohol but nothing too crazy.
Bitter up front, though not of the sour/hugely resinous variety; not too much anyways. Grapefruit, white grape, lime, lemon and light honey and biscuit to balance with a dextrinous texture and mostly tight carbonation. Good attenuation and there’s some fun here between the amarillo and simcoe fruitiness and light juiciness, but there’s also a fair amount of heavy, heavy citrus and bitterness from the columbus, centennial and simcoe. Why bother boiling simcoe anymore....? That hops way more fun in the whirl and dry phases. I guess they’re going for a more West Coast approach here, which is fine and I do like that it’s "only" 8.2 abv, which seems pretty low for a DIPA these days, but they still need to take it easier on all this resin. Alcohol still shows a bit, as well.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Jun 2016
at 16:37
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
The sacred heart..we shall see. Bottle thanks to Steven. Pours a ruddy brown color with a large beige head. A big estery fruit and sugary nose. Dusty, caramel, big brown sugar, huge strawberries, some dark chocolate. Really drinks heavy like a liquor but is still drinkable. Quite nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Jun 2016
at 00:55