7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle. Brownish color with a nice beige head. Raspberry and sweet chocolate aroma. Cocoa and raspberry flavor. Medium body, easy to drink. Reminds me a bit of the raspberry cream sees candy. Just enough tartness and sweetness to make it well balanced and to give some depth.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Dec 2004
at 19:43
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pour is a deep red with a nice sized white head. Aroma is fruity and spicey. Smell like Christmas! Flavor is excellent. Lots of yeasty and malty goodness. Lots of fruityness in this brew as well. Banana comes to mind. Over probably the best "Belgian" I have had that did not come from Belgium.
Tried
on 19 Dec 2004
at 15:57
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draft. Cheery red beer with a cherry Vicks drops aroma. Tart cherry atste with a nice balancing sweetness, good bodied kriek, close to the belgian style. (June 2004).
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Dec 2004
at 18:29
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
2004 bottle. Pours a very mildly hazy, yellow, some very light orange tints. Small white head, fairly rapidly dissipating, with slight lacing. At first I thought this was just as filtered as their other beers, but then read that there is a yeast injection. Whatever, it’s still filtered. Aroma is light honeydew melon, lemons, sponge cake, mild belgian yeast, vanilla. Flavor is moderately sweet, lightly yeasty and has a bit more citrus and hop bite to it than expected. But overall, it is still quite tame and mild. Little bit of thinning on the very end. Some esters, but they are very muted. Body is pretty smooth with a bit of alcohol giving it a fuzzy palate. Moderate carbonation, medium body. I enjoy trippels with more aggressive yeast and less filtration.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Nov 2004
at 16:34
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Ahh, like a stout that is not a stout. Smells of something roasted, which you should pick up from its dark coloration. Once sipped, it becomes even mysterious, as it mingles flavors of coffee and malt without becoming overly heavy. Strangly brisk in spite of all of its darkness.
Tried
on 29 Nov 2004
at 22:57
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 10
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottled. Dark amber. Strong vinegary cherry aroma. Dry and acidic, pleasant rounded mouthfeel. Black cherry juice! Perfect, hardcore rendition of the style. Could perhaps be more complex still, but this is really a great beer!
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Nov 2004
at 12:59
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft. Golden-amber color with a little white head. Malty aroma. Flavor is very fruity, malty, and even more fruity. Finish is dryer than I’d have imagined.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Nov 2004
at 17:25
9.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Bottle @ the DCVAMD Gathering. Gettin on in the night. . .haha, my notes say "fruity", but fortunately I dont take long notes and do remember this one very well. It pours a dark amber with strong peachy/auburn tints throughout, small white head, good retention. Aroma leans more to some darker fruits, raisins, some sour blackberries, black cherries, pungent yeast. IMO, the American brewed flemish sour, proved the most funky of the day, though it hardly means much seeing as how the yeast strain was taken from Belgium (which I learned from Joris). I also never got to try the PP Le Woody. Moving on, the flavor is a mix of what I can best describe as ALMOST spoiled fruits: strawberries, tart cherries and pomegranate seeds. Deliciously yeasty and sour to the extreme, this one had a musty, earthy, woody feel to it as well, especially on the finish. Yes, I do believe I will be trading for some of these. A touch more body and this would be near perfect.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Nov 2004
at 17:31
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
2004 bottle. Dark burgundy/mahogany brown. Filtered clear, with a small beige head, rapidly disipating and decent lacing. Aroma of Irish porridge, says bucknaked, but to me it smells like hazelnuts and roast. Nothing exciting. Flavor is pretty solid for a regular brewpub porter. Knowing the style and what they aim this to be, I could stretch to say that I taste belgian yeast, but realistically, I would NEVER know this was a beligan traditional brown ale. This tastes like a decent american porter. Roasty, some chocolate and caramel. I’m pretty sure back in 1554 they didnt filter the hell out of this beer. Why does New Belgium filter all of their normal bottle line so heavily???
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Nov 2004
at 00:40
3.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 2
2004 bottle. Moderately pale clear yellow color with a small white, rapidly dissipating head. Bubbly and horribly filtered. Aroma of wheat. Yes, just wheat. There is a touch of coriander and that’s about it. The whole time I’m drinking this, I’m thinking, wow, this is a pretty poor American wheat. It has no trace of belgian yeast, plenty of lightly tart wheat notes, light grainy malts; all the characteristics of an american wheat. And then I see this is a belgian wit. That’s a mockery. This is completely filtered. What are they thinking??? No life to this, no essenttial yeast notes, just bland watery, wheaty, light grains. Very poorly done. Make this bottle conditioned, add in a lot more yeast and malt, then we’ll talk. Watery as all get out, thin, bland, boring.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Nov 2004
at 00:09