7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7
500mL bottle, pours jet black with a small tan head. Aroma is fairly boozy but elegant, with tons of apple brandy, nice dark sugars, and a touch of dark dried fruits. Flavour is full of apple brandy barrels, booze, dark sugars, and dark fruits. That’s some intense apple brandy barrel. A bit too boozy, but there’s a good base and barrel character.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Sep 2025
at 02:48
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Dark brown. The aroma has a fairly strong shot, definitely the apple brandy. Some dark sugar elements underneath. It's got a lot of those dark sugars, umami, that rich dark chocolate accent, and then it's got a lot of apple brandy in there as well. That barrel helps to cut the richness of the sugars a bit, but still leaves a solid alcohol note, and lots of base stout. Excellent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Sep 2025
at 02:40
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
500ml (thx, Ryan!) @ SF.
Aroma: sweet, molasses, booze kick, barrel.
Taste: bitter and roasty, moderate body, noticeable barrel.
Overall: not really a sophisticated creature, not impressive.
Aroma: sweet, molasses, booze kick, barrel.
Taste: bitter and roasty, moderate body, noticeable barrel.
Overall: not really a sophisticated creature, not impressive.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Sep 2025
at 02:33
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Poured from 500mL bottle (bottled 01/22). Very dark brown with small beige head. Woody apple brandy barrel, mild leathery dark fruit, boozy, a touch thin, decent.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Kilter Brewing Co.
on 11 Sep 2025
at 02:28
7.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
500mL bottle. Pours very dark brown with a beige head. Lots of brandy, roasted malts, and dark caramel on the nose; some iodine. Flavour has a ton of boozy brandy, dark caramel sugars, dark fruit, some roasted bready malts. It might be a bit on the old side, the profile is stretched a bit thin, but I do like the complexity and general quality of the beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Sep 2025
at 22:51
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
473mL can, pours a clear pale golden with a small white head. Aroma has gentle grass, straw, and biscuity malt. Flavour is fairly crisp, with straw, crisp grassiness, and biscuity malt. Doesn’t strike me as a Czech pils – crisp, clean, but not spicy enough. Decent.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Jul 2025
at 05:51
6.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 6.5
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
Slight hazy gold, no head. Sort of sticky malts. Light grassy hop accent. It's okay, in terms of fruity hop. So it ends up okay.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Jul 2025
at 05:50
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Poured from 473mL can. Clear-ish yellow gold with minimal white head. Feint pils malt and grass hops, light bitterness, a bit bland. Meh.
Tried
from Can
at
Kilter Brewing Co.
on 08 Jul 2025
at 05:46
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Dark brown. This has cinnamon, nutmeg and that peach brandy. There's a lot going on, on the palate. Tonka, cinnamon, nutmeg all there. Some mellow dark malt barley wine. The peach brandy is big on the finish as well. This is complex, a bit all over the place, but in a good way.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jul 2025
at 04:33
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Poured from 500mL bottle. Dark brown with minimal beige head. Peach and rum with some cinnamon, nutmeg and vanilla. A little bit too much going on, but okay.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jul 2025
at 04:23