7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Pours gold with a small head.Nose shows floral and fruity white wine notes, some citrus, a bit of woody oak.Flavours include more oak-derived coconut notes, some sweet light Belgian malt notes and a fair bit of booze.
Tried
on 27 Jan 2016
at 23:56
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
330ml bottle, 2014 vintage, from Beer Cartel, Sydney. Pours black in colour, tan foam head and aroma of roast malt, chocolate & coffee, nutty, whisky, boozy. Taste is roasted malty, dried fruits, raisins, chocolate, coffee, woody with booze & grassy bitterness. Smooth mouthfeel, medium bodied, soft carbonation, mellow dry roast bitter finish. Really well balanced, very drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Dec 2015
at 05:46
9.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 10
Flavor 10
Texture 10
Overall 9.5
KRS 101015. THX to Bergstaden. Black colour with a tan head. Aroma is cellar, whiskey, roasted malt, chocolate, coffee. Flavour is cellar, whiskey, roasted malt, chocolate, coffee, vanilla, oak, caramel, dried fruits. Full body. A nearly perfect beer.
Tried
on 19 Dec 2015
at 03:22
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle at craig’s. Pours deep amber, nose is vanilla, caramel, fruity, taste is rich, caramel, berries, whisky.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Dec 2015
at 13:55
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
bottle at home .... golden copper ... thin white lacing ... soft sweet toffee fruit ... light oxidised fruit nose ... soft sweet fruits ... juicy zezty floral fruit ... big alcohol ... oxisied fruit
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Dec 2015
at 13:53
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Gold, no head. Aroma of the barn, old apples, lemon, oak. A little toffee apple. Light bodied, slippery, flat. Sour - more sour than funky - with lemon, apples, apricots and their stones. No vinegar. A little toasty/ brûlée note that works nicely. I guess Boatrocker has been the Australian brewery that has most consistently made the beer it has intended to over the past 5 years, so this is not that big a surprise. It’s rather refined and I would have liked it a little more feral, but presumably there’ll be others from this programme and this is a very solid foundation as well as a fine beer itself.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Dec 2015
at 05:18
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
[11/15] Bottle from their barrel room. Almost clear gold with a thick white head that never disappears. Aroma of Seville oranges, citrus blossoms, peaches, grass, dough, white pepper. Really juicy with sour orange, peaches and nectarines (fist squeezed ripe and just under-ripe respectively) some light herbal and oak notes, bitterness comes with a suggestion of zingy, leafy-peppery funk at the end. Alcohol is completely hidden. I would have liked it to have a slightly creamier texture and perhaps have the flavours more completely integrated - it may well be that both of those things happen in over the next month or so. Very good, redolent of competence if not mystery. [4]Fruit flavours have come indeed together nicely and it seems softer overall - slightly sherbety really. But the aroma has lost a bit of punch. Pretty sophisticated drop - the combination of sweet and under-ripe fruit with grapey funk is very fine.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Nov 2015
at 07:24
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
[11/15] Bottle. Just hazy straw with a large white head that lasts pretty well. Aroma of hay, mildly funky and slightly banana-y dough, cloves, coriander., white pepper. Sweet with hay, some orange and apricot too. quite spicy - lots of pepper - but not much bitterness at the fairly dry finish. Just a little sweet for me but everything about this is sound. [3.6] [2/17] Just a little drier or more bitter at the end would have been good for me. More than solid.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Nov 2015
at 06:02
6.3/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Disclaimer: never had a bourbon and cola. Bottle. Murky brown with a beige head that’s soon at the rim and then is gone. Aroma of vanilla toffee, booze. Getting towards sticky, lowish carbonation. Very sweet with toffee and nuts, vanilla and some other gentle spices, oak. Not really my sort of thing, but the balance somehow classes it up.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Nov 2015
at 06:11
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle, 10C. Gold with a white head. Aroma of honeyed hay, sugary dough, cloves white pepper, and behind that it’s a little horsey and peachy. Light bodied for 10%, slightly creamy. Hay, oranges, peaches and vanilla. A breath of alcohol at the end. But after a little while the finish worked a little better for me with the booze and the lean towards dry leaving gently spicy, slightly funky peach and toasted oak. Perhaps opened this one a little early.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Oct 2015
at 07:37