7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
500ml bottle from Super Liquor in Waiheke at Vrbo. Transparent brown-burgundy pour with thin sudsy white head. Aroma is sweet, spicy, nutty, and boozy in a very nice way. Some warm spiced fruit - raisins. Taste is more nutty and spicy, with some sweetness, good booze and spice in finish. Finish is sticky toffee warm fruit and rye spice. Palate is rich and smooth but with decent carbonation. Good!
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Mar 2020
at 09:46
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle at Dark Sky in Tekapo at start of honeymoon. Pitch black pour with puffy fine tan head. Aroma is roasted coffee and chocolate with metallic bitterness. Taste is crisp bitter, slightly metallic at first, then roasted coffee beans. Bitter finish. Light palate. Not bad. A bit metallic.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Mar 2020
at 07:47
6/10
Tried
from Draft
on 07 Mar 2020
at 01:00
5/10
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Mar 2020
at 11:58
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
On tap at Hopscotch, Melbourne. Golden with a white head. Kind of mild with hops, some pineapple and light malt. Fairly refreshing.
Tried
from Draft
on 22 Feb 2020
at 19:27
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
On tap at the Dog in Westport. Pours a hazy amber, white head. Pithy nose, grapefruit and potpourr, soap, malt. Flavor has cracker and soap, dried grasses or herbs, citrus rind. Dry, bitter finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Feb 2020
at 20:32
6/10
Tried
from Draft
on 07 Dec 2019
at 20:18
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
355ml can into pint glass. From Dan Murphy's, Armidale. Golden amber beer with very light carbonation and large frothy white head. Very faint aroma of rice. Patchy lacing. Sweet lager, quite crisp at first. Finish is more sweetness and late sour rice notes. Not horrible but very sweet for a 'Japanese' lager, none of the usual 'dryness'.
Tried
from Can
on 03 Nov 2019
at 09:38
8.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 9
Thanks Jonno. Aroma is oaky, bit of spice and smoke, black treacle. Taste is very good, soft, roast, mellow. Fruity. Treacle again. Great stuff.
Tried
on 09 Sep 2019
at 16:05
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
(Can) Pours black with a small tan head. Great aroma - dark roast malt, coffee, nuts, maybe a hint of oak. Medium body with good carbonation. A nice balance of sweet and bitter. The bitterness is mainly dark roast malt and a burnt sugar dark toffee taste. There’s a surprising light candy sweetness in the background. Notes of coffee and red berries and maybe a hint of oak. Very drinkable.
Tried
from Can
on 31 Aug 2019
at 13:25