7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
On draught at Barley’s Smokehouse. The beer pours a dark brown color with a medium beige head that diminishes slowly. Sticky large patches of lacing on the glass. Aroma of roasted malt, hops and a bit of chocolate. Medium body with a roasty malt character and notes of moderately bitter citrus hops and dark chocolate. The finish is slightly spiced hops up front and leaves a sweet malt aftertaste. Well balanced and well-executed overall, this style could easily be mistaken for a Black IPA.
Tried
from Draft
at
Smokehouse Brewing Company
on 31 Oct 2011
at 10:30
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Served on draft at the Smokehouse location. Pours a dark ruby color with a medium sized creamy tan head. Good head retention and lacing. Aroma of rich coffee notes, chocolate and sweet roasted malts. The taste is roasted malts, bitter coffee and chocolate. Thin-medium bodied. Nice.
Tried
from Draft
on 16 Aug 2011
at 17:58
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Served on draft at the brewpub. Pours a clear golden color with a medium sized creamy white head. Decent head retention and lacing. Aroma of grainy malts and faint nutty notes. The taste is earthy and nutty notes, sweet malts, butter and a bit of grass. Medium bodied.
Tried
from Draft
on 16 Aug 2011
at 17:04
6.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
On tap at the Oak Room during OBW. Pours pale hazy golden with white head. Some lacing, medium carbonation, and light body. Taste is estery malt. Not much cherry, but pretty good.
Tried
from Draft
on 10 Jul 2011
at 17:24
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Sample at the Smokehouse. Pours a clear golden color with a thin white head that evaporates to an outer ring quickly. Spotty lacing on the glass. Aroma of fruit and wheat. Medium, clean body with flavors of wheaty malt, mild hops and cherries. The finish is mildly tart fruit with a touch of hops poking through. Fairly average overall.
Tried
from Draft
at
Smokehouse Brewing Company
on 22 Jun 2011
at 21:04
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Firkin version at Barley’s 9th Annual Mini RAF (05/14/11): The beer is a mostly clear copper color with a medium thin off-white head that recedes steadily. Short strings of lacing on the glass. Citrusy aroma with malt notes. Medium body with flavors of citrusy hops and toasted malt. The finish is fruity with touches of malt and pine left over. Decent overall.
Tried
on 22 May 2011
at 20:28
4.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Sample at Barley’s Smokehouse. The beer pours black with a medium tan head that recedes steadily. Small patches of lacing. Aroma of roasted malt, vinegar and tart fruit. Medium body with flavors of tart berries, roasted malt, yeast and hay. The finish is tart up front with a syrupy sweet fruit aftertaste. The server admitted that "something got into" this beer and that they decided to run with it. I do not feel this was a good decision.
Tried
on 02 May 2011
at 13:26
5.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 5
5 oz sampler off of the Beer Engine at the brew pub (#2) in Columbus, Ohio. Server described this as a stout that some of the brewery’s wild yeast got into, causing some tartness. Pour is a hazed brown ruby with hardly any khaki head. Aroma is sweet cherry tartness, along with honey. Pretty odd nose, but certainly unique. Taste is a syrupy cherry raspberry, mildly tart, bordering on cloyingly sweet. The sour had a bit of a medicinal infected quality to it. There is also a honey grassiness involved, along with a mild roast quality. The cherry tart, sort of sour, lingers long into the finish. Palate is more or less flat, medium bodied, with the mentioned tart sour finish. Not sure what they were going for here, and if it was more of a "happy accident" sort of beer, it didn’t really work for me.
Tried
on 25 Apr 2011
at 11:51
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
On cask at Barley’s Smokehouse, served in a snifter. The beer is a reddish-brown color with a medium thin off-white head that recedes quickly. Spotty lacing on the glass. Aroma of sweet malt, cinnamon and oak. Medium, smooth body with a light oak character and flavors of caramel malt, vanilla, fruit and spice. The finish is sweetly spiced with a malty aftertaste. Pretty good all around.
Tried
from Cask
on 15 Mar 2011
at 21:32
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
On draught at Barley’s Smokehouse. The beer is a murky brownish-amber color with a thin tan head that recedes to an outer ring quickly. Short strings of lacing on the glass. Aroma of caramel malt and fruit. Medium body with flavors of toasted malt, caramel and ripe fruits. The finish is sweet and malty with a lingering fruity finish. Above average overall.
Tried
on 15 Mar 2011
at 21:28