Subsidiaries
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Pours a clear amber color with a small off-white head. Malty hoppy grapefruit aroma. Sweet malty hoppy bitter flavor with hints of grapefruit and citrus. Dry hoppy bitter finish with a nice long hoppy bitter aftertaste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 May 2008
at 08:11
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Bottle at Chris_o’s The Wolf tasting. Hazy gold. Piney hop aroma. Good grapefruit. Bit empty on malts. Good beginning and end, but a bit metallic in the middle.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Apr 2008
at 04:10
9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bomber pours out crystal clear copper with light tan head and decent lacing. Great aroma with grapefruit juices, orange peel and a hint of sugary malts. The flavor begins big with fresh grapefruit hops and some pin hops followed by mild malt sweetness to cut and balance the bitterness somewhat. Toward midway and to the finish grapefruit juice becomes the dominant flavor with shinning citrus bitterness. Very nice IPA.
Tried
on 24 Apr 2008
at 17:16
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Draught. Syrah Barrel-aged ! Deep chestnut with small, dense yelllow-brownish head. Sweet-vanilla, somehow brandy notes (rather than wine), very good reforming the classical Doppelbock aromas. Slight sourish-winegrapey flavour, sweet-sour in PERFECT balance, and alcohol swarming faintly throughout. Ends long raisiny. Very full-bodied, slick, viscuous. WOW. No German would dream this up. This is where California shows real genius.
Tried
on 24 Apr 2008
at 05:39
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draught Good yellow-creamhead; maroon beer. US hops, milkchocolate, coffee cream, grapes and a fruity finish. Good bready, well-balanced sweet-bitter; finish is very dry-bitterish; flavours of exotic fruit. Well-balanced, quite slick, dry-out effect in the end. Good, if unbelievably discreet in the alcohol for a barley wine.
Tried
on 24 Apr 2008
at 05:32
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Draught. ??My notes, taken from the blackboard, talk about Fathom IPA?? Good yellow head, leaving some lace: pale orangey beer. Very grapey, dry hops, bit salty/oystershell (high DMS?), fruity end. Dry hops, less bitter than expected, orange marmalade and a pinch of quinine. Medium bodied, slick, some alcohol ’t would seem. Good, if unspectacular. If it is really a lager, then it would be spectacular indeeed.
Tried
on 24 Apr 2008
at 05:30
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Draught Fine head over copper-chestnut coloured beer. Smokey nose, slightly phenolic, Lapsan Souchong tea; Sweet and smoked - a bit too sweet, somehow molasses-like, and again Lapsan, as well as some smoked ham. Reasonably bodied, quite smooth and slick.
Tried
on 24 Apr 2008
at 05:18
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 9
Deep red-copper beer with a rosy head. Brett & cherry nose, quite fruity and some slightly coloured malts. Very, very tart kriek, with a good lurch of alcohol, wood, and, after all, malt. Slick, fruit-filled and slight acidburn. Very attractive sour ale. For my fellow Belgians: "Hout" is pronounced "hoet" in California, as every West-Flemish would have guessed, which is why he speaks of "choet".
Tried
on 24 Apr 2008
at 05:14
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draught Near no head; black beer. Pure freshly roasted coffee with a bit of sugar; moccha cookies (Café Crème) aroma. Sweet coffee & moccha, and only the sweetness and the warming betraying the alcoholload. Very slick, viscuous, and alcoholwarming. Good, impressive Imperial porter, with a respectable alcoholdash that doesn’t get too spiritlike.
Tried
on 24 Apr 2008
at 05:09
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draught Deep brown beer with a reddish shine, little head. Obvious vanilla, oak and Bourbon, some roasted notes and again, lots of oats. Warming MF for obvious alcohol (Bourbon), sweet nutty dark worts and just enough discreet hops - great balance! Warming, but not aggressive in MF. Very good B.B.A. porter, much more balanced than most of its ilk.
Tried
on 23 Apr 2008
at 11:37