7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Bottle courtesy of Marsiblursi shared at tasting. Pours hazy reddish golden with a creamy off-white head that slowly dissipates while clinging to the glass leaving lots of trace and lacing. Smell is sweet fresh and hoppy with caramel, oily pine, overripe mango, passion fruit, peaches, dill and freshly cut resinous wood. Taste is sweet, bitter, tiny metallic and hoppy with peaches, oily pine, pineapple, unripe mango, dark bread, dark honey, gooseberries and hints of caramel and grass. Mouthfeel is smooth, silky, oily and medium bodied. Finish is slightly sweet and bitter with tangerine, peaches, pine and dill.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Apr 2012
at 04:26
7.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bomber from The Davis Beer Shoppe. Pours very dark brown/black with a 4 finger darkish tan creamy/foamy head that does some convoluted lacing. Aroma is chocolate and .... wait for it ... graham flour. Strange! Maybe also a hint of treacle. Med + body. Flavor is very graham flour with chocolate (maybe coffee too) and some sweetness that might as well be marshmallow. Interesting. The graham aspect dominates. But chocolate persists into the finish.
Tried
on 13 Apr 2012
at 16:12
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
22oz bottle picked up at Bevmo
Appearance: Pours slightly hazy golden with a medium sized off-white head and some lacing
Aroma: Floral, citrus and dusty caramel
Taste: Fruity, citrus, caramel and bitter grapefruit
Nice, easy drinking. The abv is well hidden.
Appearance: Pours slightly hazy golden with a medium sized off-white head and some lacing
Aroma: Floral, citrus and dusty caramel
Taste: Fruity, citrus, caramel and bitter grapefruit
Nice, easy drinking. The abv is well hidden.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Apr 2012
at 22:14
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bomber from The Davis Beer Shoppe in Davis, CA. Pours dark copper/amber with a creamy/bubbly beige head. Aroma of caramel with noble hop. Not exactly grassy, but heading that way. Med body. Starts with a lot of caramel, that doesn’t seem sweet, but then it suddenly does. And it suggests darkish fruit. So it’s malty, even a bit darkly so, but there’s grass/herb hop bitter, so as the liquid leaves bitter remains. It’s so hoppy it’s approaching woody. I’d like to say astringent, but the malt/hop play leaves me uncertain there. I love the bitterness. Stretching memory back over 5 years, I was reminded of Uerige, whether because of the sticke or the flavor? Anyway, I tend to think my old rating there sort of fits: "Starts with a sweet plumminess, then an exquisite balance of complex hop. And it stays that way. This is really good."
Tried
on 10 Apr 2012
at 16:48
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
22oz bomber pours deep darkness with tall firm mocha like head of foam. The aroma offers up pretty rich bites of dark roasted malts, burnt malts, toffee and dark roasted coffee. The taste is very imperial stout like with rich dark roasted malts to burnt malts, chocolate brownie and dark roasted coffee. To midway a brief yet somewhat firm sweet dark fruity ester note is noticed in the form of faint blueberry notes that are quickly smashed by burnt malts and dark roasted maltiness and dark roasted coffee. I’m not sure how this is a Baltic Porter but it is a damn nice Imperial Stout.
Tried
on 01 Apr 2012
at 07:21
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Dark brown beer with a tan head. Chocolate and toffee aroma with backing hops and light vanilla. Malt and toffee flavor with light darker malts and vanilla. Medium bodied. Toffee and vanilla lingers with light darker malts and light cookie notes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Mar 2012
at 10:27
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bomber from The Davis Beer Shoppe in Davis, CA. Pours very dark brown with a 2 finger creamy beige/tan head. Aroma is mostly brown sugar. Full bodied. Flavor is treacle with suggestions of chocolate. Or coffee. Or something. There’s no direct heat, but my nose knows there’s alcohol here. Nice in that it’s not the sickly brown sugar many barleywines seem to be. It’s not dry, but it’s not excessively sweet, and it’s just lightly astringent. With a little time it develops cherry pit flavor. Thinking this is good stuff.
Tried
on 17 Mar 2012
at 18:25
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bomber thanks to Robert. Pours a pure jet black color with a medium brown head. A slightly sour oaky and rich roasted malt nose, something akin to blackberries. The flavor is superb; rich roast and coffee, more lingering sourness that is rich in line with oak and tannins, lots of metal which often mirrors sourness, lingering black licorice and coffee. Big on the oak with the power to balance it out. Very tasty. In fact, this reminds me a lot of Duck Rabbit’s Baltic Porter, both have sour components. Damn good.
Tried
on 10 Mar 2012
at 22:57
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Tap at Monk’s Kettle, SF. It pours opaque black, with a thick tan head. The nose is tangy, coconut, vanilla, smoke, over-ripe pineapple and some meat. The taste is roasted malt, tang, caramel, burnt malt, smoke, liquorice, coffee, charcoal, wood, vanilla, fruit (more dried pineapple) and earth, with a dry finish. Full body and moderate carbonation. Well balanced and flavoursome.
Tried
from Draft
on 08 Mar 2012
at 04:51
8.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Poured up on tap at the Pleasanton Hopyard with clear copper body and gold edges as well as a near white head that leaves behind some spotty lacing. The aroma is an interesting mix of grapefruit, tart pine hops, orange peel and a light spicy cedar wood sensation that may be due to a combination of aromatics coming together. The taste is similar with a thick punch of grapefruit, mango and clementine and then running into increasing levels of resiny bitter hops. Midway and to the finish the hops seem to mostly consist of resiny pine sap as well as a sort of mild spicy cedar wood note in the background. This is a fairly forward bitter and resiny brew and as it should be with such a name as this. Nice.
Tried
from Draft
on 03 Mar 2012
at 20:32