7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. Mahogony/red color with a nice tan head. Citrus aroma with malt. Citrus, rich caramel flavor with slight spice. Medium body. Citrus and malt lingering. 2005 was better, this was good, but underwhelming.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Dec 2007
at 16:10
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle at Toms Ultimate Glasgow Tasting ... Golden orange ... Good slightly sweet american hop nose ... Good balance but too much hop for me lots oan lots of hop resins ... very intence....3.5... bottle at brewdog bar ... amber ... fruity hop nose ... very tropical s 3.6
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Dec 2007
at 04:45
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at Toms Ultimate Glasgow Tasting ...Copper colour ... decent enough fruity bitter ... nice rounded ... reasonabl depth ... good malt fruit.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Dec 2007
at 04:32
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle (2006). Color is a fairly translucent reddish brown. Head is tan and bigger than expected at first, but leaves nothing more than some film and a few scattered bubbles after a half a minute. Aromas are lovely... fruit scents of cherries, figs, plums and the like hover around a malt core that is caramel and heavily sweet and has a bit of a molasses note. Flavor is nice and smooth with a bit of a hops bite to it at the end, but it is still a fairly smooth barley wine without rough edges from an unbalanced hops or alcohol presence. As it warms a bit more the hops edge seems to disappear a bit. This is really pleasant and well worth the wait while it aged a bit.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Nov 2007
at 20:39
7.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Black with a light brown, lasting head. Coffe, licorice, chocolate and alcohol in the aroma. Coffee in the flavour too, quite dry, and too much alcohol presence.
Tried
on 29 Nov 2007
at 18:30
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
2017-08-24, draught at Rogue Kitchen & Wetbar (Convention Centre), Vancouver, 7-4-7-3-15=36
Malty but lacking a bit of depth. Balanced, hint of smoke.
2007-11-12, bottle, 8-5-8-4-17=42
Very dark brown color; creamy head. Nice aroma, harmonious, with caramel, roasted barley coffee. Powerful body, sweet, with good mix of caramel, chocolate and roasted malt, dried fruits too; good bitterness. Very good mix and solid brew, excellent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Nov 2007
at 17:13
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
75 cL bottle. Pours hazy orange with a lacing off-white head. Aroma is dusty and somewhat ashtray like, tobacco. Flavour is softly sweetend with a slight note of dried fruit. Softly sweet and not overly so. Ends with a warming alcohol finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Nov 2007
at 03:33
9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Bomber consumed at Stone Bistro because it topped the draft offerings the day I was there. Pours a dull hazy orange with off white head. The aroma has a sweet sugary maltiness mixed with juicy pine and some citrus hops. Not nearly as pungent as the winter version. The mouth feel is thick and chewy with a plentiful bounty of pine and grapefruit hoppiness that mixes brilliantly with a river of malty sweetness. Toward the finish the hops seem to split into bitter pine hops and grapefruit hops as well as sweet orange juice. Easily quaffable.
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Nov 2007
at 22:15
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottled. A murky orange-brown beer with a thin tan head. The aroma is sweet with notes of alcohol, wood, and bourbon. The flavor is sweet with notes of alcohol, wood, and bourbon, on a thick caramel back ground. The alcohol leaves a slight burn in the throat.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Nov 2007
at 01:52
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Thin dark brown head. Opaque black body. Sooty, rounded burnt chocolatey malt aroma with earthy notes. Dry, smooth alcoholic burnt cocoa and chocolate taste with sharpish notes. Very nice burning sharp chocolatey aftertaste. My RBNAG’07 review then continues: "So fucking drunk. Now sleep." So I retasted next morning, to find much the same, except the bottom of the bottle had a pronounced bready aroma and taste. (0.66l bottle at RBNAG’07.)
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Nov 2007
at 06:47