Subsidiaries
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
12 ounce bottle from a friend. Pours an opaque black color with a medium creamy tan head. Good head retention and lacing. Aroma of chocolate and roasted malts. Taste is chocolate, roasted malts, bitter coffee and fairly strong hop notes. Medium bodied. Creamy, smooth texture. Very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jun 2009
at 20:25
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottled. An unclear brown beer with a thin orangey head. The aroma is malty combined with notes of over ripe fruits, alcohol, and berries. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, over ripe fruits, and alcohol. Thanks Papsoe for sharing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jun 2009
at 14:37
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
500ml bottle. Bronze-tan color, some head. The aroma is sweet and pungent, pretty bocky and true to style. Actually ends up being quite enjoyable, with the sweet sugary malt up front, balanced by a nice hop crispness. Some nice lager notes beneath the almost peppery bitterness. A tad thin and watery, which probably is for the best for Sprecher.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jun 2009
at 22:59
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
From bottle, blind #5. Pours hazy dark brown with a slight orange glare and with a small ligt tan head. Aroma is overripe fruity and slight cheesy aroma. Mild acidic, smoked, overripe fruity, slight metallic and light acidity into the finish. Ends with a lasting fruity and mild roasted malt lingering finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jun 2009
at 13:21
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle 100 cl. Courtesy of Skyview. Hazy amber golden with a small, creamy, beige head. Aroma of bourbon and wood. Medium body, a little caramel, wood and a vague underlying smoky note. Has a light underlying tartness in the finish. 120609
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jun 2009
at 06:38
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
500ml bottle. Translucent amber-brown color, minimal patchy head. Odd sweet caramel aroma. The taste comes off a little adjuncty, with some amber malt and a syrupy sweetness. Minimal sublime hops help you get this one down. Quite a poor example of a Brown Ale, even for Sprecher.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 May 2009
at 15:31
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Pours a dark brown with about an inch of fizzy cola like head. Aromas are odd for the style... caramel and toffee... a little bit of dates. Flavor is also an interesting take. It starts off with a bunch of caramel sweetness but finishes with charcoal and peat, while still remaining fairly sweet. The base flavor is not nearly dark enough for my tastes on this style.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 May 2009
at 22:51
2.8/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 2
Flavor 4
Texture 2
Overall 3
The grail of all beers was found. This is the alcove offered to us by Sprecher. Pours golden hazy, no head. Aroma of industrial glue, carton. Taste, wood, smoke, tasted like old apple with some soap, and mouthwash. It just doesn’t have anything appealing. While I appreciate the effort to try an African recipe, this beverage is just awful to drink.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Apr 2009
at 21:16
3/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 2
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 2
Damn! Now that I’ve had this mess from some hateful bastard at the tasting what do I do with the curse-d bottle I’ve got? If you enjoy pain and understand the scale of beer yumminess extends well below the likes of a Chapeau product then this is for you. Pours hazy murky light mud with micro thin head. The aroma is fresh plastic appliance stored in a dusty cardboard box. OK, this is where the crazies are separated from the insane. Why go further and drink something that smells this bad? Well, for one thing, you won’t know where the bottom is until you’ve tasted this. The taste is earthy, gravel, cardboard, plastic apples, chemicals, faint yeast and spice. I can’t go on . . .
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Apr 2009
at 20:07
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
500ml bottle. Deep stained glass red-brown color with a nice thin head. Sweet aroma, maybe some spice. Big malty taste, with the brown sugar taste overwhelming most of the subtle yeast flavors. Easy drinking, not such a bad mouthfeel, yet this one just screams imitation. At times Shwarzy. At times just insipid and sugary. Improves a little as it warms. OK at best.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Apr 2009
at 20:56