7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottled. Deep ambery brown colour (quite close to black). Aroma is spices, roasted malts, yeast and also some dry dark fruits. Flavour is spices, roasted malts, some wood, smoke and ashes. Very strange sweetish, but smoked and roasted brew. Still works quite well though.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Aug 2008
at 19:34
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle at Chris_o Pre GBBF Shindig 08. That’s pretty sweet. Somewhat fruity beer. It’s a bit sweet and syrupy. Some hop on end. Ok.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Aug 2008
at 16:28
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Unclear orange with tiny white head. Sweet yeasty aroma with caramel and fruity notes. Sweet flavor with ripe fruits, yeast and spicy notes. Ends with warming alcohol.
Tried
on 03 Aug 2008
at 06:51
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
(Bottle 25 cl) Courtesy of boboski. hazy amber golden with a small off-white head. Fat aroma of overripe fruit. Quite full-bodied with overripe fruit and a rather low carbonation. Some hops in the finish. Excellent. 200608
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Aug 2008
at 10:28
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Rich mahogony beer with a huge dark cream colored head. Rich sweet malt, caramel aroma with yeast and earth. Caramel/toffee flavor with earth and light spice. Medium bodied. Caramel lingers with earth, spice, and light cocoa.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jul 2008
at 13:06
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from Capital Ale House - Downtown on 07/15/2008. Very hazy deep amber body with a medium creamy off-white head. Sweet caramel and spice aroma with rum soaked fruit and raisin hints. Big caramel and wood flavor, light raisin and spice. Medium full body with moderate carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jul 2008
at 19:46
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottled, bought in Belgium. Hazy dark brown color, medium frothy brown head. Aroma of roasted malt, rye, some licorice, hint of coffee. Taste of some dried fruit, coffee and caramel, some rye, bit too yeasty. I would call it a belgian imperial stout, and it seems to be quite difficult to combine these styles. More a sweet stout maybe.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jul 2008
at 08:56
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours mahogany into a snifter. Off-white head recedes to skim surface. Mild chocolate aromas. Chalky chocolate and dried fruits.
Tried
on 12 Jul 2008
at 22:14
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7
On tap at Capital Ale House - Innsbrook on 08/30/08. Murky dark brown body with a medium creamy off-white head that persists. Chocolate, molassas, rum-soaked fruit and caramel aroma and some light hoppy hints. Chocolate, cocoa, roasted malts, some light rum soaked fruit, and some fairly astringent bitterness, fairly grainy in the finish. Medium body with moderate carbonation. 7/4/6/2/12-3.1 Bottle on 07/12/2008. Clear very dark amber body with ruby hints and a large fluffy tan head. Aroma of chocolate, molassas, rum soaked fruit, and caramel. Smoke and roasted malt flavor, more chocolate, light rum soaked fruit, some coffee and light molassas. Medium full body with moderately low carbonation. 8/4/8/3/16-3.9
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Jul 2008
at 23:34
8.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
11.2oz Belgian "grenade" style bottle. Murky, muddy brown-black color with a nice foamy head. Brown sugary sweet and very, very smooth, this one is a classic. 3.3 rating, WTF, this beer outclasses many of the high rated Imperial Stouts. It doesn’t, however, really have too many traditional stout-like qualities. A little light on the chocolate malt, baby! Imperial Brown Ale? Nonetheless this is a seriously impressive beer, very tasty stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jul 2008
at 00:05