8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Pours murky amber with deeply oxidized rusty edges and tan head. The aroma is bold and crafty and full of homer-istic nuances like cedar, some whiskey, vanilla, some smooth sweetly slick oaky goodness and a mild nuttiness in the background. The taste is . . . wow! I get a wave of rich sweet malts and nuttiness initially and then it blends into sweet whiskey and vanilla. Toward midway chocolate and nuttiness come to the front along with splintery cedar wedges. Whiskey booze, vanilla and molasses notes take over the flavor into the finish. Lots of complex stuff going on here in my glass. Fantastic mouth feel.
Tried
on 21 Aug 2009
at 22:49
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottlle #1! Shared by GodOfThunder @ otakuden’s Vero Beach Throwdown. Pours cloudy dark brown with tan head. Lots of boubon on the nose. Some vanilla and oak. Sweet flavor with a good dose of bourbon, some toasted malt, vanilla and oak. Medium body with minimal carbonation.
Tried
on 18 Aug 2009
at 20:48
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
From bottle, RBSG08. Pours brown with a creamy off-white head. Dense malty and slight spiced aroma. Fruity and dense malty yet with a light yeasty touch in the flavour. Smooth yet also quite roasted and slight spiced. Rather sweet.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Aug 2009
at 06:17
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Sampled from a CCB "growler" thanks to ygtmsm94. Pours a translucent orange, amber with a thin, ringing white head. Aroma of tropical fruits, pineapple, guava, grapefruit, flowers. Flavor is heavy on the tropical fruits, pine, very sweet. Slightly sweet, slightly bitter, slightly spicy finish. Very nice.
Tried
from Growler
on 12 Aug 2009
at 18:29
8.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle courtesy of Immy on 07/18/2009. Dark black body with a medium creamy brown head. Huge roast, chocolate and hop aroma. Big roast, chocolate, molassas, and huge hop flavor with lots of bitterness. Medium full body with moderately low carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Aug 2009
at 11:57
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle courtesy of Immy on 07/18/2009. Clear dark amber body with a medium frothy off-white head. Sweet cedar and floral, citrus hop aroma. Big cedar flavor, lots of floral, citrus, and resiny hop flavor. Medium light body with moderately high carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Aug 2009
at 11:55
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Quaffed (THIS WAS NEVER ON DRAFT) at CCB BA Big Sound release party. Big thanks to Justin for opening his bottle. It pours murky dark brown – amber with copper edges and lasting tan head. The aroma is bourbon – whiskey notes and some heat to go along with modest sweet maltiness. The taste is sweet malty and chewy with a brief pulse malt roastiness before layers and layers of bourbony booze barrel notes well up to the surface. To midway and toward the finish I get thin mesas of chocolate, some dark roasted coffee and mildly drying roasted malts and booze.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Aug 2009
at 23:13
7.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Draft at CCB BA Big Sound release party. The pours deep copper amber-ish with gold edges and nice tan head with some lasting retention too. The aroma is full of winter beer spices like cinnamon and nutmeg and other spice notes I can’t really pin down. I think I’m getting a faint hint of chocolate in there somewhere. The taste is the same as the aroma with loads of up front winter spices cinnamon and nutmeg and other spices mixing with the lesser sweet malts and roastiness - nuttiness of the base beer rounding out the flavor. A bit on the spicy side.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Aug 2009
at 23:11
8.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 9
Draft at CCB BA Big Sound release party. The pour is super dark with frumpy brown head and a short lived stain of darkness up the sides of the drinking vessel. Initially, while still plenty cold, the beer emitted bourbon and oak a-plenty. The taste begins oaky and bourbon and then quickly becomes velvety dark chocolate yum mixing with highly roasted malts that approach but don’t succeed getting to burnt. By midway the oak notes move to the forefront and the bourbon resurfaces and mixes in with the base beer notes creating a delicious balance. It ends with smooth decadent chocolate and a lingering roasty to chocolate sensation deep into the after taste or after the tasting even. As it warms the aroma opens up and adds some nice complexity with chocolate and dark roastiness joining the ever present oak and bourbon. There’s plenty of booze barrel notes to make the fortified beer booze lovers happy and leaves plenty of room for the delicious base beer to shine through.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Aug 2009
at 23:09
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Draft at CCB BA Big Sound release party. It pours dark brown with lasting tan head. The aroma is largely dark roasted coffee then moving into Bolita malty rich roastiness, staying clear of highly roasted, and some nuttiness. There is a faint sense of cacao in the aroma and if I didn’t’ already know it was there I wouldn’t have noticed. The taste at first seems very much like the regular Bolita with thick rich tasty sweet malt, roast and nutty notes. Behind that are pleasing layers of cacao and Navarro deep dark roasted coffee beans and the associated chicory goodness. Plenty tasty.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Aug 2009
at 23:07