5.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Draught at RBESG. Near black, minimal head. Evident coffee aroma. Sweet and fruity with near full body. There’s prunes, licroice and chocolate sauce and well as cocoa and caramel. Alcohol is quite evident, and the flavours does not blend together all that well. Finishes with low bitterness and some raw stickyness.
Tried
on 09 Jul 2008
at 03:23
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
RBESG2008: 5 L partyfass. Thanks to chris_o. Pours dark brown with a golden reddish glare and a slowly collapsing and light tan head. Mild fruity and dense malty aroma. Spiced and dense malty flavour. Warming alchol finish mixed with a nice dense malt note. Light coffee note too. Ends with a lingering set of roasted notes. Nice.
Tried
on 06 Jul 2008
at 15:41
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
RBESG2008: 5 L partyfass. Thanks to chris_o. Pourd clear and golden amber with a collapsing tan head. Overripe fruity aroma. Flavour is dense malty with a solid fruity note. Warming yet smooth alcohol base. Ends dense malty and roasted malty.
Tried
on 06 Jul 2008
at 15:40
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Party-keg (@ RBESG 2008): Deep ruby-amber coloured, firm, small beige head; wood, chocolate and mainly roasted malt in the nose; quite full bodied, not too dry bitter-sweet flavour, soft MF; roasted malt, leather, again, in the sweet, dark-malty finish. Good, heavy stuff........
Tried
on 06 Jul 2008
at 13:05
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Mini keg courtesy of cgarvieuk, big big thanks to Craig, bottled by Doppelganger, aka Casey, cheers Casey had this 03-07-08 Poured very black, maybe even shark eye black with barely any head of note. The warming alcohol shows quite quickly but its the stunning streaky bitterness that lingers for forever and a day. Roasted coffee on the nose along with some chocolate, Loz got a metallic taste in the mouth like brass, I never but my dad also noted that. I enjoyed this, maybe not quite as much as I expected but it was a well done Imperial Stout that was more simple and less in yer’ face than some in this category. Once again a big thanks to Craig for sorting this out, cheers mate!
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jul 2008
at 02:23
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
5 liter party-keg at RBESG Grand Tasting, June 29, 2008Marked "Czars P2"Black color, tan head. Vinous, roasted, raissin, alcohol scent. Salty, roasted, raissin, dry taste. Medium mouthfeel and bitterness.
Tried
on 02 Jul 2008
at 08:17
5.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
5 liter party-keg at RBESG Grand Tasting, June 29, 2008Marked 10.5% ABVClear dark reddish brown color, small tan head. Sweet, vinous, alcohol scent. Sweet, smoke, dry, vinous taste. Medium but dry mouthfeel, medium high bitterness.
Tried
on 02 Jul 2008
at 08:16
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Backlog rating from RBESG 2008, grand tasting: Chestnut, creamy head. Raisin, chocolate, treacle nose. Light smoke, raisins/fruit and chocolate flavor. Mellow mouthfeel. Raisin/dried fruit aftertaste.
Tried
on 28 Jun 2008
at 05:55
6.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6
Backlog rating from RBESG 2008, grand tasting: Cola looks. Light vineous nose. Light body. Wooden notes, fruit. Wooden aftertaste.
Tried
on 27 Jun 2008
at 05:58
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
[From mini keg @ RBESG Grand Tasting] Dark clear brown with medium beige head. Sweet vinious with caramel, roasted malt, ripe fruits and port notes. Delicious. [81 vintage @ Kulimnator. thnaks for sharing Kim!] Hazy brown with tiny beige quickly disappearing head. Sweet and vinious aroma with dark fruits, caramel and port notes. Sweet flavor with plums, prunes, caramel and port notes. Good complexity and quite vinious. What a treat. 7, 3, 8, 4, 15 = 3,7
Tried
on 16 Jun 2008
at 14:24