5.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle pours a slightly hazy light orange. Very large frothy slightly off-white head. Clumpy sticky coarse lacing from the receding behemoth. Aroma is like an old barn. Some sour woody notes. Hops are evident but not prominant. Flavor is sharp and hoppy but a harsh bittness with little flavor. Fairly full palette but that woody cardboard things keeps coming back. Another dissapointing IPA. Where is my Stone or Diamond Knot when I need them....
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Mar 2006
at 22:33
5.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
A nice red amber color with a thin white head. looks like a Christmas ale, but its weak fruity aroma and sweet cranberry taste left me looking for some pumpkin ale.
Tried
on 28 Feb 2006
at 13:20
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottled. Hazy amber. Sweetish aroma of lingonberries or cranberries. Fairly sweet with dense mouthfeel. The berries are accompanied by some roasty malt. Salty finish with low-medium bitterness. A quite enjoyable straightforward beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Feb 2006
at 07:29
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 7
Unimpressive hoppy aroma. Some floral and spice hints, and some buttered scones. Medium hop flavors are perfumy, with a fair caramel malt body. There’s a weird husky quality to the palate, drying around the edges of the mouth, almost chalky in mouthfeel. Minerally. Really a pale ale, or at least an 1990’s era British style IPA. Hazy amber color with a decent head and fair lacing.
Tried
on 03 Jan 2006
at 16:03
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Orangy amber in color with a small head. Smells of malts and hops... flavor is too malty for an IPA, in my opinion. Does have a bitter hop finish, but not balanced nicely.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Dec 2005
at 18:21
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottled. Dark ruby red colour, brownish head. Toffee, roasted malt and hints of alcohol in aroma. Smoked and roasted malt in flavour along with hints of coffee. Strong roast and coffee in aftertaste. 74 7 4 15
Bottled@SBWF2009. Quite much as the rating above, but also being very sticky sweet which I didn’t like too much. 6 4 6 3 12.
Bottled@SBWF2009. Quite much as the rating above, but also being very sticky sweet which I didn’t like too much. 6 4 6 3 12.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Oct 2005
at 15:22
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottled
Dark almost opaque, good tanned head, lace. Roasted, cold coffee nose. Carbonated, roasted, almost chocolaty. With roasted malts also some bitterness in the aftertaste. Easy to drink - balanced porter. (7/4/7/4/15 3.7)
Draught@SBWF 2009
Brown color, small off-white head. Coffee and some off light glueish notes. Well, some glue also in the flavor plus coffee beans, roasted malts, hops and vegetables. (6/3/6/2/11 2.8)
Dark almost opaque, good tanned head, lace. Roasted, cold coffee nose. Carbonated, roasted, almost chocolaty. With roasted malts also some bitterness in the aftertaste. Easy to drink - balanced porter. (7/4/7/4/15 3.7)
Draught@SBWF 2009
Brown color, small off-white head. Coffee and some off light glueish notes. Well, some glue also in the flavor plus coffee beans, roasted malts, hops and vegetables. (6/3/6/2/11 2.8)
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Oct 2005
at 10:00
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle. Orange-amber beer with a thin light beige head. Low orange citrus aroma. Somewhat watery. Some caramel and orange flavors but very light. Easy drinking, goes down quickly.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Oct 2005
at 21:46
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottled. Hazy copper colour. Blackberry aroma. Sweetish with medium body and clean, rounded mouthfeel.Some apple. Plenty of licorice in a really bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Aug 2005
at 21:33
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottled. Near black, average head. Aroma of chocolate and plums. Dry and roasty with medium body. Notes of madeira and licorice, but the chocolate flavour prevails. Medium bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Aug 2005
at 18:59