6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Sparkling amber with off white head.Fruity nose. Light fruit sweet malt taste with decent hop finish. Good body for the style
Tried
on 18 Dec 2002
at 18:33
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Found at Jungle Jim's in Fairfield, OH. Avery's brews have all been pretty good so far and this is no exception. This is a pretty good seasonal ale to boot. Pours a pretty amber color with a medium thin beige head. Spicey aroma of connamon and hops. The flavor was a mixture of malts, brown sugar, cinnamon etc and was surprisingly rich. Good stuff!
Tried
on 05 Dec 2002
at 07:32
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Dark golden color with a medium thick milky-white head. Nice effervescence. Alternating fruity and hoppy aroma. Nice tart flavor of herbs and spices and hops. Surprisingly easy to drink as well. $6 a bottle around here but this was actually worth it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Nov 2002
at 07:44
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Hoo-yeah! I am really liking these higher-ABV beers now that they are available in Ohio. The aroma floodgates were opened from the minute I cracked this one open! Strong hops with barley malt in the background. Very pretty amber hue with a medium beige head and some lacing. Very malty flavor with some caramel. Dry, hoppy finish with alcohol notes. Very good beer that left me with a pleasant buzz.
Tried
on 29 Oct 2002
at 14:43
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Perfect true amber color, with a medium thick creamy beige head, excellent retention and heavy lacing. Strong hop aroma: pine resins and maybe a little citrus. Extraordinarily creamy palate and unbelievably well balanced. Full rich sweet caramel malt circled by tingly resiny and spicy hop flavors. Finish is strongly bitter but not unbalanced at all. Both malt and hops lingering in the mouth. One of the smoothest and most drinkable barleywines I’ve encountered.
Tried
on 16 Oct 2002
at 10:36
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Intense grapefruit and pine hop aromas and flavors. Malt is balanced and clean, with a med bitter finish. Gold-copper color with short head, fairly quickly dissipated but great lacing all through the glass. Overall, highly similar to Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale - but not identical.
Tried
on 31 Jul 2002
at 11:04
7.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Nice lemon-grass hop aroma, with some resiny tones. Hazy copper color with large creamy stiff head, lasts forever. Solid foamy lacing. Flavor dominated by citric and resiny hop flavors. Solid bitterness in the finish. Malt is on the low end, but not unbalanced. Mostly clean light malt flavors are present, very little in the way of caramel malt flavors.
Tried
on 31 Jul 2002
at 11:02
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Black coloured. Veryhop aromatic, slighlty roasty. Smooth mouthfeel, bitter finish. Really good!
Tried
on 23 Feb 2002
at 09:42
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8
Pitch black. Roasty, very full bodied, very balanced, very tasty. A favourite among stouts.
Tried
on 31 Jan 2002
at 03:54
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 10
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Reddish brown, hazy. Big grapefruit aroma. Bitter. A very tasty typical American veriosn of barley wine.
Tried
from Can
on 21 Jan 2002
at 03:58