8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 9
Bomber from Total Wine in Sacramento, CA. Pours really dark brown with a dark tan head. Aroma is dark treacle, dark fruit, enough alcohol to fry the olfactory nerve, and something that makes me think of rum. (Love rum) Full bodied. Flavor is very dark treacle, very dark fruit, heat which hardly burns at all, and some flavor complexity I can’t seem to parse. My mind is awhirl "with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives." This stuff is like love; it’s destructive to focus on minute details. Just go with it. Great ale. These brewers are məšuggā’. Lucky us!
Tried
from Can
on 12 Dec 2016
at 19:53
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
I kind of like this; pretty good drinking beer. Aroma is pretty straightforward basic malt toffee caramel. Flavor has a lot more going on with just the right amount of carbonation and bitterness to balance the sweet some boosyness in the background, satisfying.
Tried
on 12 Dec 2016
at 19:51
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
The Well, Brooklyn tap: pours dark brown with a beige head. Aroma is cocoa, vanilla, ginger, coffee and about twenty other things. Roasty and chocolatey. Spicy. Interesting.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Dec 2016
at 22:27
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Pours deep mahogany into a snifter. Mocha head with good retention recedes to skim surface. Raisin, plum and molasses aromas. Thick with molasses and clove upfront turning to dark caramel covered dried fruit and chocolate before the lasting, warming bitter root finish.
Tried
on 30 Nov 2016
at 18:13
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Amber beer with a cream head. Earth and grapefruit aroma with light caramel. Grapefruit and earth flavor with light caramel. Medium bodied. Good bitterness. Grapefruit and earth linger with light pine and light caramel.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Nov 2016
at 17:44
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
The Sampler, Brooklyn tap: pours dark brown with a beige head. Aroma is toffee, dark fruit, light booze, sugar. Taste is fairly bitter. Kind of sweet. Lingering aftertaste. Kind of thick body. Pretty good. Not as heavy as it seems it should be.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Nov 2016
at 21:56
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Pours dark brown with a beige head: aroma is boozy, dark fruit, toffee, yeasty, thick. Taste is sweet and boozy. Thick. Plenty of complexity. Sweet aftertaste. Is what it is.
Tried
on 18 Nov 2016
at 21:21
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle shared on Level 42 14/11/2016. Huge thanks to to Leighton for this one. A thick oily chestnut brown coloured pour, fading tan head. Aroma is sweet jammy fruits, strawberry, cakey malts, mint, cocoa, . Flavour is composed big sweet treacle, liquorice, dark choc, smooth Bourbon, sweet, cakey. Palate is very sweet, sticky brown sugars, cloying. Treacle.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Nov 2016
at 14:08
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle at Level 42, thanks to Leighton, 14/11/16. Light black with a decent kahki cap. Nose is sweet malts, brown sugar, toffee, faint coconut, chocolate. Taste comprises brown sugar, toffee, spice, burnt notes, molasses, big fruit cake. Full bodied, fine carbonation, warming alcohol in the close. Ok strong .. a touch harsh at times but an ok sipperoo.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Nov 2016
at 14:07
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle care of Leighton, at level. It pours pretty opaque black with a medium tan head. The aroma is rich, filthy, liquorice, treacle, vanilla, cake chocolate, dark fruits, Horlicks and frangelico. The taste is rich, filthy, roasted malt, toasty, coffee, malt loaf, toasted nut, some boost, wood, earthy and spice with a warm, boosty finish. Full body and moderately, foamy carbonation. Not so much depth to . Not bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Nov 2016
at 14:07