6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
22oz bomber pours clear ruby red amber with near white head and leaving behind some spotty lacing. The aroma offers up sweet malts, toffee and a bit of cherry hard candy thinly rimmed with molasses. Hmm, IIPA? The taste has sweet malts, a bit of earthy malts, sweet cherry hard candy dark fruity like esters and then slightly pine to vague hop resiny bitterness. This sort of build into resiny grapefruit hop bitterness to midway and into the finish. It seem sort of muddled with various malt notes as well as dark fruity esters trying to co-exist with basically just vague bitter hoppiness. Hmm.
Tried
from Can
on 22 May 2012
at 22:52
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
22oz bottle from Bevmo
Appearance: Pours cloudy amber with a medium sized creamy off-white head and good lacing
Aroma: Floral, caramel and pine resin
Taste: Citrus, sweet caramel and pine resin
OK, too much sweetness for me.
Appearance: Pours cloudy amber with a medium sized creamy off-white head and good lacing
Aroma: Floral, caramel and pine resin
Taste: Citrus, sweet caramel and pine resin
OK, too much sweetness for me.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 May 2012
at 23:12
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Dirty yellow-beige head over black beer. Bourbon-barrels, vanilla oak obvious, sweet and lactic, but not sour - lactose? Sharpish alcohol flavour, bitter chocolate, bit smoked, vanilla and the rest of the oakflavours. Sharpish, alcoholburn, pretty viscous and smooth. Too little porter, too much barrel aging, IMO.
Tried
on 11 May 2012
at 11:58
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Draught. Arbitrary score 4/5 for Appearance, as nighttime conditions prevented correct assessment. Bit catty hops, cassis/blackcurrant, but fresh-hoppy smelling. Orange- / mandarinepeel, orangemarmalade and green tea. Some light cake-like maltbacking. Medium bodied, slick. Decent, if a tad undistinctive IIPA.
Tried
on 08 May 2012
at 23:47
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Pours with a black body and a huge, creamy tan head. Good retention and lace. Appears a bit over carbbed. Aromas are big, powerful roast, dusty cocoa nibs, marshmallow, vanilla, light smoke. A very pungently earthy/chocolatey aroma. Grainy, dry nutty, very light hints of styrofoam. Flavors are dry, bitter, a bit nutty, bready grainy. Oddly dry and lightly acidic. Vanilla, cocoa nibs, earthy, coffee, dry roast. Some marshmallow like character. Some graham cracker like maltiness. Not really working as it is very dry with a slight acidic edge that detracts. Very lively bubbles, a bit thin, dry medium smoke.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 May 2012
at 12:05
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Draft. Amber-brown beer with a dark cream head. Toffee and light roast aroma. Toffee and dark fruit flavor. Medium bodied. Toffee and dark fruit lingers with light earth.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Apr 2012
at 10:37
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft. Black beer with a tan head. Marshmallow and light roast aroma. Marshmallow and roast flavor. Medium bodied. Sweet marshmallow and roast lingers with light chooclate. Add in some graham crackers and you have smores.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Apr 2012
at 10:32
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle courtesy of Marsiblursi shared at tasting. Pours clear amber witha frothy white head that slowly dissipates while leaving lots of trace and lacing on the lass. Smell is sweet and hoppy with caramel, pine, orange zest, pineapple, mango, dark bread, honey and currants. Taste is sweet and bitter with caramel, currants, pine, pineapple, grapefruit juice, orange peal and freshly cut grass. Mouthfeel is oily, smooth and medium to full bodied. Finish is tiny sweet and bitter with oily pine, freshly cut grass and orange peal.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Apr 2012
at 04:30
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