2008-05-30, blind tasting at Yespr’s, 6-2-4-2-10=24
Cloudy blond color. Strong aroma of yellow fruits, mango peach and plums; vanilla perfume. Slim body, soapy flavor. The final is not very interesting.

20087-07-22, draught at Bi-Du Beer Fest, 7.5% ABV, 7-4-5-2-12=30
With Volpedo peach.
Cloudy blond color. Fruity aroma: dry apricots and medlar (nespole). Soft mouthfeel, some sweetness, but without any special flavor; too ordinary.

Bottle, private tasting
Cloudy amber...more murky than cloudy actually. Yeasty, tart aroma with notes of raisin and chocolate. Quite yeasty on the palate as well, in that "bottle conditioned beer that’s still going" sort of way. Hints of red currants, vague toast and breadyness. A little fizzy...there’s that overactive bottle ferment again. Finishes slightly tart with a vague fruitiness. The tartness in the nose that I thought held promise I guess was unintentional. Hmm, that was the best part.

Clowdy ruby colour, rich malty lots of fizz, with mayple syrup and toffee malt tones.

Light red brown, sweet malt fruit, little fizz, very fruity up front little sharp little sweet distinct fruit (probably the blueberries) but alchols shows a bit much, little spirit like in linger.

750ml with the fancy paper. Pours like mud, completely murky brown , no clarity. Decent head with an average lacing. I got to admit when I first show this bottle I wouldn’t have thought it was a barleywine but this is definitely a barleywine with a nice twist. Aroma is pretty hoppy (slightly citric, again surprising), caramel maltiness, and a fruit tea/marmalade aspect. A bit of the standard alchy raison sweetness. Taste is similarly light caramel malt sweetness, a good floral aspect - again seems to be coming from an original hop profile. Overall this beer is not a light beer but it creates a very nice light aspect coming from this fruity hop. Now I never get straight blueberry but I always feel berry freedom and joy (I know its weird but berries do that to me). Finishes off light on bitterness, and sweet aftertaste. No booziness and I wouldn’t have guessed more than 8%.

Sampled at the O-Town throwdown. Poured a murky brown color with light brown head. Light aroma with malt sweetness. It tastes kind of thin and has mild berry notes and sweetness.

July 2008. Courtesy of CigarCityBrew. Pours deep copper with haze and off white head. The aroma is fruit and tart with cherries and sweet ripe strawberries and more cherries followed by continued tartness. The taste has big sweet fruitiness up front with apples, cherries and strawberries with a background of growing fruit tartness. The tart notes are brief and have seem to mildly drift away into sweet fruitiness along with a palate caressing note of caramel. Very nice.

A huge off-white head rises above this clear dark amber brew. The aroma is malt dominated with lots of fruityness. Smooth and sweet but not overly complex.

Small but persistent white head; beer is cloudy orange with brown hints. Smelling the beer gives me a first association with pasta sauce; but then clearly peaches impose themselves - canned peaches to be true. There’s a fishy, salty taste there, which imposes itself, impeaching (!) any fruitiness. Gets sweeter in the aftertaste, all the same. Some slickness, good body. More peaches, less pasta sauce, please. Was: 6/4/4/3/10 - 2.7 New rating 2007 at Sherwood pub. Huge transparant-white head; cloudy yellow fruit-juice colour. Very spicy-fruity nose, old closets with forgotten dried fruit (apricots). Solvent, glue and faraway dried apricots. Very tart ending, puckering; Wry, dry-out effect. Longlasting fruit-accented dryness, not sweet, not bitter, not sour. Surprising beer. Not readily qualifyable.