6.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle (courtesy of Presario): Poured a dark brown color ale with a small head with very minimal retention. Aroma of strong malt with some roastiness and caramel. Taste is also dominated by the strong roasted malt with some nice hops that lends a hoppier finish. Body is quite full for a brown ale but overall this kind of lack carbonation. Good for the style but seems to be missing something to be truly great.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Aug 2005
at 09:23
6.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle: Poured an orangey color ale with a medium off-white head with minimal retention. Strangely carbonation is really low on that one. Aroma of floral and sweet malt as well as nice hops is clearly evident. Taste is kind of overpowered by slightly bitter hops with an underlying sweetness that doesn’t really do it for me. Ok without being anything too special.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Aug 2005
at 09:09
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Aroma of whole grain bread. Light bittering hops and more of that bread on the palate. Slight oxidation as well.
Tried
on 17 Jul 2005
at 02:54
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Golden Amber color with a grapefruits and citrusy hoppy nose. Medium to full bodied mouth that comes across more as citrusy juice with a bit of malt added to it and then a lasting hoppy finish. Way to hoppy for the style and could fool many people to believe it is an IPA. However, a very good IPA.
Tried
on 10 Apr 2005
at 20:14
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
A deep, deep coffee nose laced with chocolate, macadamia nuts. The mouth starts bitter, but then turns very rich sweet malty mouth and a chocolately sweet finish. Excellent.
Tried
on 10 Apr 2005
at 08:11
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
This beautiful dark brown beauty, shows, succulent nose of chocolates and flowers dancing together on top of a rich creamy light brown head. The mouth is hop accented with solid chocolate undertones and sensuously rich, smooth and creamy. The end is perfectly balanced with chocolate malts and a moderate amount of hops.
Tried
on 09 Jan 2005
at 08:38
7.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
A dirty orange colred somewhat watery brew carried candy apples and oranges in the nose. A very pungent body, filled with fragrant Liberty hops, which is some what watery, but very smooth. The finish is moderately bitter.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Oct 2004
at 10:57
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
A dark amber color that has a thick white head full of PNW hops, full bodied and citrusy with a big bitter finish. Kinda of what I expected, but oh so well executed.
Tried
on 06 Oct 2004
at 10:55
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
A dark amber color, piled high with Colombus with pine, lemon and earthy nose. The mouth is dry and piney with a piney finish.
Tried
on 06 Oct 2004
at 10:55