Subsidiaries
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Sweet peach aroma. Yellow gold color with next to no head. Sweet peach and wheat flavor. Good body. A very sweet wheat beer - nice and not cloying (2004). Update (2013) - fruit aroma and flavor much more subdues with more wheat malt flavor. Light herbal finish. Doesn’t seem to be as sweet as I remember but still a nice beer.
Tried
on 03 Jun 2004
at 14:43
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Pours a copper color with a huge white head and excellent lace. Aroma and flavor is of hops. This is what I would describe as a cloudy pale ale. Nice thick mouthfeel to go along with the other sences. Good stuff.
Tried
on 21 May 2004
at 22:11
8.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9.5
A pitch black beer with no head. The aroma is of coffee and bitter chocolate - lovely. The flavor is sweet and yet bitter from coffee notes and bitter chocolate notes combined with hints of smoke. A really great beer. Thanks to Mads Berg for sharing this jewel of a beer.
Tried
on 16 May 2004
at 09:32
8.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
An unclear brown beer with a yellow-orange head. The aroma is extremely hopped on a sweet malty background and with notes of alcohol and oranges. The flavor is great; very hoppy with strong notes of oranges, chocolate and alcohol running over the tongue. Thanks to Mads Berg for sharing this wonderful beer.
Tried
on 14 May 2004
at 18:08
7.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Pours a off yellow with a big fluffy head. The first thing you notice is the hop aroma. I can smell it in the bottle before I ever pour it. Flavor is where the beer loses its points. Sure the hops are in there you can smell them but I can’t really taste them. Average IPA at best. This brew actually smells better than it tastes.
Tried
from Can
on 07 May 2004
at 20:31
7.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Pours a dull yellow with a fizzy white head. I can’t really get an aroma but I can kinda get vanilla. Flavor is orange,banana and cloves. Lots of things going on in this brew. Drinkable and refreshing.
Tried
from Can
on 06 May 2004
at 20:28
7.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottled, thanks hopsrus! Cloudy nut brown. Hoppy earhty green menthe aroma. Very malty and somewhat vinous. Salty and spicy, confusing and complex with a Fisherman's Friend finish. This is what Bell's do best: Ridiculously full bodied experimental beer with bizarre flavours.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Apr 2004
at 03:27
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottled, thanks hopsrus! Cloudy copper colour with thick, creamy head. Fruity, vinous nose with notes of smoke and plums. Deeply malty. Salty licorice and hops builds up to a very bitter finish. Sticks out in a crowds of barley wines. Has developed a lot in the past 6 months. Old rating (April 2004)Copper colour, small beige head. Vinous smokey ash aroma. Very rich and salty with notes of blood and metal, but hops, peppey alcohol and salty spices dominates. Extremely powerful, but also confusing and unusual. Still a bit raw, should probably have waited in the celalr for a while. (5/4/7/3/12)
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Apr 2004
at 03:24
9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 10
Texture 10
Overall 9
2011-09-28, vertical tasting, batch 7800 packaged 2007-01-31, 5 years old, 10.2% ABV, 8-5-9-5-17=44
Dark mahogany color, with nice creamy head, reducing to a more frothy layer. Wonderful aroma of old time cookies at first; then caramel, malt, fudge, light phenol. Good body strength, and smooth mouthfeel; strong caramel and malt flavor, correctly sweet without being cloying, also because of a nice nutty touch; it still has a quite strong bitterness, that blends with a pinch of roastiness and the warm alcohol feeling. It aged with grace, and still holds some complexity.
2011-09-28, vertical tasting, batch 9358 packaged 2009-09-23, 2 years old, 10.2% ABV, 8-5-9-5-17=44
Compared to the older bottle, this one has a bigger and more persistent head, more carbonation apparently, a darker shade of brown. The aroma comes in immediately with caramel, vanilla and phenol, with a light soapy sensation, and without the additional cookies found there; but after a while they tend to be similar. The body is equally strong and the mouthfeel equally smooth; there is more focus on the caramel flavor, slightly more sugars, and less nutty touch (that could be both a sign of the age or presence of roasted malts); more pungent, more bitter, more roasted nutty malts in the ends, less harmonious. Equally good.
2004-003-26, 9% ABV (not sure), 8-4-10-5-18=45
Cloudy amber color. Original aroma: malt, nuts, caramel, cookies, milk chocolate. Perfect body structure; malt, caramel, cookies, fudge, medium liquorice, very strong bitterness. Excellent! Thanks Philippe (Bov) for sharing this bottle.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Mar 2004
at 11:20
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Dark brown, green hue. Strong roasted malt nose, turning into something apple-ish; some phenol. Liquid liquorice, followed by a strong coffee and roasted malt wave. Strong, but too much unbalanced, to get a higher note. Thanks Philippe (Bov) for sharing this bottle.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Mar 2004
at 11:18