7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
750ml bottle from somewhere I can’t remember in Melbourne but shared at Battle of Bull, Cheras, Malaysia. Bottle 203/500. Poured a hazy dark reddish amber colour with a thin broken off white head. The aroma is malt, toffee caramel, light alcohol. The flavour is moderate sweet, with a big, rich, smooth, sweet toffee, warm boozy alcohol bitter palate. Medium bodied with average to soft carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Sep 2021
at 16:13
6.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pots good with a quickly fading head.Nose shows pear and apple, spicy and peppery phenols, soft booze and light bready malt.Flavours include more bready notes, massive spicy phenols, a hint of banana. Finishes reasonable clean but with a bit of the booze showing.
Tried
on 25 Jun 2021
at 11:29
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Pours very hazy thick orange, pretty much apricot coloured. Small head.Nose shows apricot mostly, little else. Some soft lemon zest too.Flavours include apricot and peach by the truckload, along with slight nectarine notes and a decent acidity.
Tried
on 18 Jun 2021
at 08:50
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
From a 375ml can on 16/4/2021. Pours a slightly hazy light goldent with a smallish head. The nose is a bit odd, kind of a melon melon and grape mix. Tastes similarly unusual - more melon and grape, a bit of orange, and some lemon with a mild tangy bitterness. Silky mouthfeel but slightly over-carbed. Pretty messy and lacking in cohesion for mine.
Tried
from Can
on 16 Apr 2021
at 06:07
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pours gold with a large head.Nose shows passionfruit, lychee, soft cookie dough-like malt, floral and spicy hops.Flavours include more passion fruit and cookie dough-like malt. More spicy hops too. A very restrained bitterness in the finish.
Tried
on 25 Mar 2021
at 11:10
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
From a 750ml bottle on 6/2/2021 (2019 edition, bottle 182 of 500, ABV 9.6%, shared with Butz). Pours a dark reddy amber with a biggish head. The nose is malty, nutty with a good dash of dark fruit. Flavours follow suit, with caramel, nuts, berries and dried fruit, with some wood and nuts. There’s a decent bitterness to counter the sweetness and it all comes together nicely. The mouthfeel is slick and a touch syrupy, the carbonation softish. Pretty easy drinking for the size. Quite rich, sumptuous and very tasty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Feb 2021
at 06:24
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
A pleasant stout with aromas of vanilla, caramel and milk. On tasting, there's also a strong citrus flavour.
Tried
on 14 Jan 2021
at 09:58
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Can. 440ml just fits in a Duvel glass, so it's just unclear gold with an inch or so of white head. 3+ Aroma is boozy with dough, oranges, coriander, white pepper. Medium bodied, quite creamy with moderate carbonation. Fairly sweet with sugary dough, oranges, pepper, coriander. A little earthy seedy note is slightly intrusive. Bitterness and a waft of booze swell gently towards the end. Good.
Tried
from Can
on 28 Dec 2020
at 13:49
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Pours black with a quickly fading head.Nose show cocoa, roasted malt, bready malt and chocolate syrup.Flavours include more chocolate syrup and accompanying lactose sweetness creating a slightly artificial note, along with bready, toasty and roasted malt.
Tried
on 19 Aug 2020
at 11:28
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 9
2019 RIS. I love this beer. Pours like milk and has aromas of cocoa, coffee, licorice, bread and a little grapefruit and pine. The King. Or, should I say, the Czar.
Tried
on 15 Aug 2020
at 11:31