6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pour is a dark brown with a small white head. Aroma is equal parts hoppy and burnt chocolate malt. Flavor is a little less hoppy but the char of dark malt is still there. This is not intensely hopped as the label says. More of a malt presence here.
Tried
on 03 Mar 2012
at 17:15
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Pour is a dark red with a small whtie head. Aroma is a ok sticky sweet malt with some lingering hop. Flavor is deffinatly a rye malt spice with some sugar and a minor hop. Finish is bitter with a little alcohol. Decent but not great. Needs a heavier malt base and a lot more hops.
Tried
on 03 Mar 2012
at 16:17
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle thanks to Sarah. Pours a clear reddish amber with a white head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has notes of grass and grapefruit with a backing cereal and sweet grains. Flavor starts with grass and citrus but finishes with more of a resinous pine and sweet grain in the finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Mar 2012
at 18:40
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Bottle @ home. Deep brown/black appearance with a tan head. Somewhat citrusy, piney, lightly resiny hoppy, roasty, charred aroma. Light bodied, wheat, roasty malty, piney, citrusy flavor. Kind of a weird combination of flavors going on.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Feb 2012
at 21:21
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Served on draft at Thirsty Monk South. Pours a very dark brown color with a medium sized frothy tan head. Decent head retention. Aroma of roasted malt, coffee and faint caramel. The taste is roasted malts, chocolate, coffee and a bitter hop finish. Medium bodied.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Feb 2012
at 18:34
6.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bomber from Famous Liquors, Lombard. I let this sit for 11 months, not a good thing for an IPA. But here goes. Pours still floats lots of hop to my nose, mostly of the piney kind, but maybe with a hint of hibiscus. Hazy gold color under a thick but quickly dwindling head. Taste has a hint of malt sweetness, but it’s been thinned a little by the bitterness. Lots of tiny bubbles to tickle my palate. Overall mouthfeel is a tiny bit thin, but that shows no other signs of age.
Tried
on 10 Feb 2012
at 23:13
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
22oz bottle thanks to Daknole
Appearance: Pours black with a medium sized tan head and some lacing
Aroma: Roasted coffee, vanilla, whiskey and woody
Taste: Roasted malts, dark coffee, chocolate, vanilla, woody with a dry finish
Very nice and enjoyable, better the warmer it gets!
Appearance: Pours black with a medium sized tan head and some lacing
Aroma: Roasted coffee, vanilla, whiskey and woody
Taste: Roasted malts, dark coffee, chocolate, vanilla, woody with a dry finish
Very nice and enjoyable, better the warmer it gets!
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Feb 2012
at 18:41
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle in Arizona. Powerful and fairly smooth a little weird on the palate but true to imperial ipa form
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Feb 2012
at 17:09
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bomber pours slightly hazy copper with gold hues and weak white head. The modest aroma offers up largely floral hops mixing with lesser amounts of spicy hops and earthy herbal shrubbery like hops. The carbonation enhanced taste is similar with bold floral hops creating both a flavor and increasing floral hop bitterness followed by a mild level of spicy hops. In the background are light notes of sugary malt sweetness. This is far too floral and sweet for my taste. Bigger floral or spicy bitterness would help the balance and improve the experience for me.
Tried
on 15 Jan 2012
at 20:49
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Loose single from Binny’s. Finally my first Bridgeport beer, although there are some bombers somewhere in my cellar. I get a big nose of malts and alcohol at the pour, not as much hop. Carola brown pour under a spongy beer head, not much bubble activity in my glass. More hops found in the taste, a kind of slight citrus and slightly "dry" hop note. Or maybe just a standard hop bitterness. Either way, it matches nicely with a slightly spicy malt bill. Texture seems a little light, but it’s leaving sticky traces on my lip, and the alcohol comes in to warm me up on this cold night.
Tried
on 13 Jan 2012
at 20:45