Subsidiaries
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Big 660ml bottle at Blå Rock Cafe while watching TIL-Brann on TV and eating a well made tuna salad called Waterboys. Clear mahogany topped with a fast diminishing foam. Weak hoppy aroma. Flavour with a good touch of caramel. Malty texture. Watery palate. Light, but nice bitter finish. Alright as a partner to the salad and the match.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 May 2006
at 13:30
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask @ Bishop’s Arms, Malmö. Clear copper colour with a small white head. Fruity aroma with some hoppiness. Malty flavor with some fruitiness and some hoppy hints. Fruity slightly bitter finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 16 May 2006
at 13:59
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottled. Deep mahogani color with a nice beige head. No carbonation. Sweet aroma with prunes and raisins, some vanilla, and a hint of alcohol in the background. It has a rich, sweet, fruity-bitter and caramelized flavor, that finishes of lightly dry and bitter. Medium, sweet body. Unfortunately, the flavor don’t follow up the promising aroma. Rating: 7-4-6-4-15-3.6. 060430
Bottle. As my first encounter with this beer was from before the sterile filtering started, I thought I should have another try. Looking more or less the same it seems, deep mahogany color, clear, and with a beige head of moderate size. Lots of dried fruits on the nose, raisins and prunes, with caramel tending towards toffee, some roasted hints and a piney hop note. It still has that rich, sweet flavor, but it’s dried than I remembered it to be, no vanilla is detected, but there’s a fine bitterness to go with the dried fruits and toffee. Lasting finish. Well, it’s still a fine brew, that’s for sure, but you gotta love toffee and dried fruits to love this beer. Adjusted my score slightly, but left the total score, even though I’d like more complexity, and I’d like the oak to play a part too. Which I don’t think it does. 141120
Bottle. As my first encounter with this beer was from before the sterile filtering started, I thought I should have another try. Looking more or less the same it seems, deep mahogany color, clear, and with a beige head of moderate size. Lots of dried fruits on the nose, raisins and prunes, with caramel tending towards toffee, some roasted hints and a piney hop note. It still has that rich, sweet flavor, but it’s dried than I remembered it to be, no vanilla is detected, but there’s a fine bitterness to go with the dried fruits and toffee. Lasting finish. Well, it’s still a fine brew, that’s for sure, but you gotta love toffee and dried fruits to love this beer. Adjusted my score slightly, but left the total score, even though I’d like more complexity, and I’d like the oak to play a part too. Which I don’t think it does. 141120
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 May 2006
at 05:01
5.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Can. Still, golden beer, with a beige head. It has a citric, apples-like aroma. The flavor is lightly citric, with some caramel and some fruitiness. A thin body and a mellow mouthfeel typical to the nitro-can beers. Session beer. Rating: 5-4-5-3-10-2.7. (060428)
Can. Pours a non-carbonating clear golden body under an off-white steady head of low height. Toffee-ish nose with some green apples. Sweetish with a little sourness too. Thin, smooth mouthfeel with flavors of caramel, bitterness, some sourness and a little metal getting more evident in the finish. Not impressive at all, but sure drinkable. (080704)
Can. Pours a non-carbonating clear golden body under an off-white steady head of low height. Toffee-ish nose with some green apples. Sweetish with a little sourness too. Thin, smooth mouthfeel with flavors of caramel, bitterness, some sourness and a little metal getting more evident in the finish. Not impressive at all, but sure drinkable. (080704)
Tried
from Can
on 14 May 2006
at 03:47
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Brown colour with a beige head. Roasted toffee aroma. Roasted toffee and some fruit,raisin flavour. Bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 May 2006
at 23:57
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Amber colour with a beige head. Aroma is mainly malty with notes of apple. The flavour is the same.
Tried
on 07 May 2006
at 14:18
4.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
750ml bottle. Light, golden colour. Aroma is caramel with a gentle touch of hops. Not much flavours, quite sweet with a hint of hop. Very smooth but ending up as another boring industrial beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 May 2006
at 03:28
5.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Canned. Nice nitrogen head with looong duration. Amber color. Aroma is mainly malt. Taste is a bit caramel too.
Tried
from Can
on 28 Apr 2006
at 17:48
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
(Cask at Lord Clyde, Borough, London 23 Apr 2006) Colour is dark amber to copper. Nose is malty and fruity with hints of oranges and mandarin. Taste is mainly malty, almost bready, with hints of nuts and caramel. Somewhat thin, but still fairly enjoyable and easy to drink.
Tried
from Cask
on 26 Apr 2006
at 15:08
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
(bottle) Dark ruby-brown colour with a creamy off-white head. Toasted malt aroma with caramel, dark berries and liquorice. Bitter flavour, medium to full bodied, smooth carbonation. Slightly sweet and roasty malty taste with caramel, fruity notes, spices (liquorice and pepper); dry and woody finish with bittering hops.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Apr 2006
at 06:39