7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
750 ml bottle, courtesy of Cardinal Pub & Bar, Stavanger. ABV is 8.5%. Cloudy dark brown colour, big to moderate beige head. Lovely aroma of American hops, fruity, piney and resinous notes. The flavour is extremely hoppy from start to finish, but has also a substantial malty sweetness. A bit too much of both sweetness and hops, IMHO. Still, clearly a craft brew well worth samling.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Apr 2010
at 14:47
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Cask (handpump) @ IBF - Italia Beer Festival Milano 2010, Palalido, Piazza Carlo Stuparich, Milano, Italy.Clear medium to dark brown color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, light beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, dark roasted, burnt, coffee. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and malt bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20100306]
Tried
from Cask
on 05 Apr 2010
at 13:41
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle 750ml.Clear medium to dark amber color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, light beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, caramel, light to moderate hoppy, orange, moderate to heavy yeasty, spicy, cinnamon, anis seed, plastic notes. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, malt and hop bitter. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20100306]
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Mar 2010
at 02:52
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle 750ml. @ home.Light light unclear medium yellow color with a average to large, frothy - fizzy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white to off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, light spicy, light to moderate hoppy, sweet citrus - lime acidic, moderate yeasty, exotic fruit, light pepper. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet, light light acidic and moderate to heavy bitter with a average to long duration, fruity, peel bitter, light spicy. Body is light medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft. [20100301]
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Mar 2010
at 07:30
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Decanter, Milan. Shared at Slothez’s gaff. Dark amber pour with a slight haze and a good sized and lingering off white head. Nice fragrant hoppy nose. Caramel malts, summer fruit and grassy hops in the flavour. Hoppage relatively understated. A really pleasant and drinkable IPA. Love the label too.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Mar 2010
at 11:58
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
From tap at Moeder Lambic. Pours hazy yellow with a small white head. Aroma is citrusy and light grassy. Mild mellow yeasty and hops fruity flavoured. Grassy and citrusy. Bitter, dry and mellow smooth flavoured into the finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Mar 2010
at 00:35
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draught Huge, very dense & fine yellowish tinted head over faintly hazy golden-ochre beer. Hoppy nose, somewhere between USa and EU hops, and dry spices abounding. Citrussy hops dominating the taste, with rootspices. Unfortunately, stripped of those spicy hops, preciously little remains to be tasted. Light to medium bodied (served too cold), dropping a bit dead. Easy drinking hopbeer, but not really innovating Italian.
Tried
on 05 Mar 2010
at 13:20
9.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 10
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Bottle@Enoteca Decanter, Milan. Mamma mia! I wasn’t prepared for quite how awesome this beer is. What a great label..... Poured a hazy dark amber colour with a gradually fading tan head. Glorious aroma, with buckets of cheesy, spicy hop and fruit, the caramel maltiness is just like the business end of a creme caramel, bloody lovely.. Great full, creamy body. The hoppage in the flavour is just wonderfully understated giving a divine level of bitterness that is just bang on the money. This just oozes class. Catch this wave. My 900th Rate.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Mar 2010
at 15:18
6.3/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draught @ BQ - Birra artigianale di Qualita, Via Losanna 36, 20100 Milano, Italy.Unclear medium orange color with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, caramel, moderate yeasty, light citrus and grapefruit. Flavor is moderate to light light heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20091110]
Tried
on 28 Feb 2010
at 09:32
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle 750ml.alc. 8.5%. Unclear medium amber color with a average to large, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, light beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, caramel, heavy hoppy, citrus - orange, pine, licorice notes. Flavor is heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20091109]
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Feb 2010
at 10:56