6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
I always think that I am going to like this one more than I do. Fresh it is fairly pleasing but this one really ages horribly. +++ Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer pours a relatively thick black color with a medium sized creamy brown head that left great lacing. The aroma is malty, and roasty with notes of coffee and vanilla. The flavor is surprisingly dry for a milk stout. There is a strong roasty and malty flavor with a definite dry coffee element and notes of vanilla and cream. There is an off flavor of lactose. The finish is long with roasty malts, a touch of floral hops and vanilla. Moderately full bodied. Better on draft than in the bottle in my experience. Interesting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 May 2004
at 09:48
8.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottled. Very black with creamy off white head. A nose full of chocolate and café au lait. Sweet with soft, filling, malty but clean mouthfeel, and a salty bitter finish with some pleasant grassy hops. Well balanced and really enjoyable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 May 2004
at 15:21
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Strawberry beers are always hard to pull off. I have had this beer a few times over the years and each time am left with the impression that it sounds much better than it really is. +++ Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer pours a cloudy dark tan with a large light tan head. There are a few pieces of sediment. There is a light vague fruit aroma. The taste is slightly fruity and tart although there was no distinct strawberry flavor. Medium finish. Light body. The brew is very heavily carbonated.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Mar 2004
at 11:52
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6
Nice nutty flavour with some malts, but little hops to compensate. Not ispired.
Tried
on 04 Dec 2003
at 18:59
4.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
Orangey-amber. This is a bland amber ale, unsaved by the hint of toasty, crackerlike malt. Bugger the Amish, at least the Mennonites make good sausage (and kamiak cheese).
Tried
on 11 Jul 2003
at 20:27
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Tap. Blackish brown appearance. No head, and was slightly bubbly. Didnt have much of a smell to it. Maybe some barley and a little bit of sugar in the aroma. Initial taste is surprisingly dry for a sweet stout and had more burnt malt/alcohol than I was expected, but then a warm creamy malt comes out, briefly, intersparsed with some grainy alcohol notes. Chocolate notes are there, but it is more of a bitter baker's chocolate. Couldnt detect much lactose (try Mackeson's if you want that). Texture was too uneven and carbonation was a problem even on tap. It's like this beer cant decide if it wants to be an english brown ale or an imperial stout, but it does not seem to comprimise as a sweet stout, and deviates greatly from the other sweet stouts I have had, though at least it is not cloyingly sweet, which is the worst offense, in my book.
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Jul 2003
at 18:55
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 9
55 deg in a straight sided pint glass. Quite an opaque dark brown, with a small but dense head. I like the aroma - a good stout smell. Roasted malts, toasted nuts, chocolate, slightly husky. Nice. Ah, just the kind of flavor I want in a sweet stout. A sweet chocolatey malt up front, light roasted malts around the edges for contrast, and a long dry nut-chocolate finish. Perhaps just a tad light on mouthfeel, drinking like a brown porter. I believe a sweet stout can stand being one of the heaviest stouts this side of the imperial style. Overall a nice quaffable stout with plenty of rich malty flavor and just a kiss of hops which add moderate bitterness in the finish.
Tried
from Can
on 03 Jun 2003
at 16:06
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Exceptionally thick and stiff head, bigger than any wheat beer I've tried. Takes forever to dissipate. Difficult to pour. Thick head blocks aroma. Otherwise, has a sweet malty taste - you can actually discern the various malt flavors. Slightly smoky and spicy. Very good tasting but annoying head.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Apr 2000
at 14:53