7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Big chocolatey nose, chewy caramel, tobacco leaf, and hints of hazelnuts and pecan pie. Dark brown color, vaguely hazy, modest head, good lacing. Sweet malts but balanced with a mild acidity, leafiness, nutty. Semi-dry finish for such a big beer! Clean, malt forward. A bit of roast, smoke and coffee but its very mild. Very cool complexity through all the malt, not distracted by an overload of hops, and all in a big balanced beer. Job well done.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Sep 2009
at 22:44
9.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9.5
Special thanks to SoLan for sharing it. Lord have mercy. Starting off - this is simply the best bourbon barrel aged beer I have ever had. I’ve had a couple of really good ones but this is the real deal. Big oaky bourbon jumps right out at you. This just has it. The bourbon tastes good. The oak tastes good. The chewy caramel tinged with oak tastes good. The tannins from the oak taste good.
Tried
on 08 Sep 2009
at 11:09
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours hazy copper color with white head. Cedar and citrus hop aromas. The cedar adds a nice woodiness much different than oak. Citrus hops, cedar and pepper are the dominant flavors. Finishes with sweet malts. Medium body with average carbonation. A very different and very good IPA.
Tried
on 07 Sep 2009
at 23:52
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Bottle from Josh. He’ll join one of these days. Pours a hazy sort of blood orange color with a good, stiff finely bubbled off-white head. Lots of citrus, lowkey caramel, and fruit for aromas, along with something herby/woody. Medium body with frothy creamy carbonation. Flavor is mixed hop, mild caramel, and it moves to something woody. Never "ate" cedar before. Turns the ale astringent. Very. Very different from oak. Finishes toward floral, so the bitter isn’t what it started as. But with the wood, hop and astringency this is one tasty brew. Note: gave palate a 5 cause this is so new and pleasingly different to my mouth.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Sep 2009
at 17:58
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours cloudy golden orange color with off white ehad. Guava and citrus aroma. Flavor is guava and citrus hops. It’s very peppery. Medium body with average carbonation. A very tasty and unique beer.
Tried
on 06 Sep 2009
at 23:25
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
750 ml bottle shared by iowaherkeye. Bottle 19/221. Nose is bourbon, caramel and vanilla with the vanilla and bourbon being overpowering. Clear cherry brown with a very small beige head. Flavor is big oak, vanilla, bourbon, caramel, and butterscotch. Heavy on the bourbon.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Sep 2009
at 16:37
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
750 ml bottle shared by iowaherkeye. Nose of coffee, chocolate, and tobacco. Lightly hazy brown with a big beige, glass lacing head. Flavor is tobacco, caramel, toffee, and faint bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Sep 2009
at 16:33
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
750 ml bottle shared by iowaherkeye. Nose is a cedar infused average IPAm with light floral hops and pungent cedar. Cloudy orange with a medium off white head. Flavor is light bitterness with lots od woodiness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Sep 2009
at 16:30
8.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle from Josh, who I still haven’t talked into registering on the site. Still working on it though. Pours very dark brown with a four finger tan head (New Belgium "tulip"). Aroma has rye, dark roast caramel, mixed hop, and maybe some wood or smoke. Seems full bodied with creamy carbonation. Flavor starts with resin/citrus, moves on to harshish rye, and pops up some toasted malt. Some chocolate can be distinguqished. Seems a lot closer to stout than brown, but why quibble. It’s a pretty damn tasty concoction.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Sep 2009
at 20:12
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle number 396/450 via a trade with dchmela. Pours with a deep brown body with a tan head. Aroma of wood, chocolate, alcohol, bourbon, dark fruits, toffee and cocoa powder. Taste is big, boozy and woody with smoke notes, bourbon, a rich vinous quality, cola and a very light vegital note (which I also sometimes get from 110k+OT #2). Thick and viscous mouthfeel. medium carbonation. Very good beer. Aroma is awesome, as is the flavor, although the flavor doesn’t seem as melded together as the aroma.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Sep 2009
at 11:55