7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Vinous, light fruit aromas. Dark brown color with ruby hilites. Medium body with mild, creamy carbonation. Flavor is large, malty sweetness with raisin/plum and enough hop to balance the malt. It’s sort of medium dark fruity ale. Finish is reasonably dry with indications of wood. The whole thing is very smooth, and delicious. Very nice ale.
Tried
on 15 Mar 2008
at 21:20
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Clear golden body with a small white head. High hop flavor with some light caramel. Sweet floral hop flavor with some caramel. Medium body with medium carbonation.
Tried
on 14 Mar 2008
at 23:48
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
From bottle at Lost Abbey before RBSG on 08/02/2008.Clear red-mohogany body with a small white head. Sweet spice, caramel, rum-soaked fruit, light sour. Big caramel flavor with a sour background. Medium full body with moderate carbonation. 9/4/9/3/17-4.2 Bottle on Mar 14, 2008 at the 2nd Richmond Industry Gathering. Hazy brown body with a light tan head. Heavy caramel flavor with light sour hints. Lightly sour flavor with oak, caramel, fruitiness and some spice. Original Rating: 7/4/9/4/17-4.1
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Mar 2008
at 23:45
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Dark black body with a small creamy light brown head. Huge rum soaked fruit, raisins, caramel and molassas. Sweet fruit flavor, light raisins, caramel. Medium full body with moderately low carbonation and a very smooth creamy sweet finish.
Tried
on 14 Mar 2008
at 23:15
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
375ml bottle - I took a bottle to a tasting and sampled it, but tonight I had my other bottle to myself. It pours a murky reddish brown with a very thin head. There’s a LOT of yeast on the bottom of this one. I thought I was pouring slowly but still ended up with big yeast flakes. Not that I mind, but it was a bit much when I actually plucked a huge glob of yeast off the top of the liquid in my glass. It looked good until that happened in the 2nd half of my pour. Anyway, it smells of wild yeast and tart cherries. The flavor is led by that wild yeast with some malt presence and quite mild cherries. There’s a hint of oak character that I noticed mostly in the finish. I actually found the body just a little on the watery side even after letting it warm. It finishes dry. Is it good? Yep. Is it $15 per 375ml bottle good (that was at the brewery)? No, I’m afraid not. Maybe I should have aged it for a few years.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Mar 2008
at 22:25
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
750 ml bottle, corked and caged. Cork lightly popped with a red wine effluvium. The aroma is something like dark plum wine (if there is such) with something like cinnamon bark. Color is a really hazy deep brown with a tan head that just ringed. Near full bodied with slightly coarse, creamy carbonation. The flavor is just amazing. There’s some sort of spice (cinnamon?) that balances the raisiny sweetness. It’s a bit vinous. It generates heat in the chest. Brettanomyces? Sour? Could be, but the result is so smooth that sour does not readily come to mind. Not very hoppy. Mixing port and dry sherry comes to mind, if some bitter is tossed in. It’s complex; it’s tasty; it’s got a touch of rosemary? Pretty amazing ale.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Mar 2008
at 20:13
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle at home ... With Royce and Tom ... thanks to Dough77 for this THROW IN deep brown ... woody tart ... fruity smooth not too sour ... little woody ... for a sour ale im quite impressed... good body ... and really interesting
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Mar 2008
at 08:09
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours murky brown with little white floaties and lasting tan head. Big aroma of tart balsamic vinegar mixed with tart cherry fruitiness and a background of oak. Near the end of a big draw I get a dose of green apples. The taste begins with a mild pulse of sweetness quickly followed by balsamic vinegar tartness. Midway the cherry fruitiness and tartness enters along with a couple planks of oak. The oakiness grows some into the finish create a pleasing confluence of flavor notes. I also notice the balsamic vinegar tartness is pretty much there in the flavor from the start to the finish and into the after taste.
Tried
on 02 Mar 2008
at 07:13
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottled. Hazy amber colour with small off-white head. Aroma is alcohol, grapes, some woodenness as well as quite red wineish. Flavour is lots of sour wood, caramel, some sugary notes as well as alcohol and mild madeiraish notes. As a whole, a really warming and wellbalanced brew.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Feb 2008
at 01:17
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at the Laid Back Brussels Tasting (Feb 9, 2008)
Deep, brown body. No head whatsoever. Nice aroma of wood, fruit, peach, malts, wine, cognac. Moderately sweet, lightly bitter flavour. The bitterness disappears fastly, while the sweetness stays. Port like. Very nice, but not that much as beer. Anyway I don’t mind too much. One could say lambic is different from any other beer as well ...
Deep, brown body. No head whatsoever. Nice aroma of wood, fruit, peach, malts, wine, cognac. Moderately sweet, lightly bitter flavour. The bitterness disappears fastly, while the sweetness stays. Port like. Very nice, but not that much as beer. Anyway I don’t mind too much. One could say lambic is different from any other beer as well ...
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Feb 2008
at 06:32