6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
A dark clear brown stout with a thin moka head. In aroma, sweet caramel Nestle Quick, with light vanilla. In mouth, a sustained roasted coffee and chocolate, lots of roasted bitterness, medium bodied, a bit oily mouthfeel.
Tried
on 01 Aug 2007
at 17:53
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
A clear dark brown porter with a thin moka head. Aroma is sweet caramel and chocolate, not very smokey but pleasant. In mouth, a good sweet chocolate, torrefied coffee, and definite smokey notes, not overwhelming, but interesting, light smokey bacon. Sustained burned toast bitterness. A good smoked porter.
Tried
on 01 Aug 2007
at 17:51
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Sampled on draft this beer poured a red-amber color with a medium sized khaki head. The aroma was grapefruit and not much else. The flavor was dry nutty malts and grapefruity hops. Very one dimensional.
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Jul 2007
at 21:51
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
From Brewfiend. Whisky in the aroma and flavor. This is combined with moderate, bitter hops but also generous malt. Earthy and dry, but I didn’t pick up all of the other qualities in the descriptions.
Tried
on 23 Jul 2007
at 13:48
3.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3
On tap at the Fuel and Fuddle in Oakland, Pittsburgh. Pour is brown like darker iced tea or lighter root beer. Floral hop aroma. Do you know what chewing on green grapefuit peels tastes like? Well if you don’t give this stuff a try. Oppressive and overpowering in the hops category, a little too much for my girlie taste buds. IMHO most IPAs are one sided, and so is this so I guess it’s a good example of it’s style. Medium hop bitterness keeps going and going on the finish. Overall, just like many IPAs I’ve had the pleasure of tasting, rather objectionable.
Tried
from Draft
on 07 Jul 2007
at 07:29
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a hazy yellow-golden color with a small beige head that faded quickly and left no lacing. The aroma was strong sweet apricot and peach. The flavor was tangy with strong sweet apricot, peach, sugar and apricot pits. The finish was very long sweet tangy apricot and peach. Medium body. Very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jun 2007
at 11:36
4.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 2.5
12 oz brown bottle had two lids on it! Get em off and there is a beery cleanish choclate and wet rag, roast aroma. For a dark beer, not bad. Tase comes across slightly bitter with attempts of offensiveness, but never quite gets there. A little more personality than my girlie taste buds care for. Interesting charcoal chewyness to the finish. That feeling continues for a few minutes after each gulp. East End Fat Gary Nut Brown Ale is much more mild and many times more enjoyable than this. On par with Abita Turbodog and Pete’s Wicked. Slightly better than Saranac brown ale.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jun 2007
at 15:16
3.2/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3
12 oz brown bottle. Pop the lid for a whiff of apricots. Sweet apricot perfume. Looks like any other popular American lager. No head. For a wheat beer, this is not cloudy. Take a swig and you get a flavor impact, apricots and all. Fairly sour bite on the tongue that turns into a medium high alky shockwave. It feels like much more alky than the 4.5% listed here. Perhaps a little rude on the palate. Yes this is definitely fruity beer. The fruitiness takes over the tasting session, with that persisting alky impact. Exceptionally fruity almost to an artificial sense. Lots of apricot with very little if any sugar. Very difficult to find enjoyable. OK to have experienced this but probably would not purchase again. If you really like apricot, you better try this. Cannot stand up to Lancaster Strawberry wheat.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Jun 2007
at 15:43
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Brown bottle, 355 ml, savoured on May 26 2007; eye: ruby, clear, no effervescence, beige head; nose: smoke, roasting, "fresh"; mouth: first contact gives a watery feel, caramelized malt, smoke, roasting, a bit of bitterness, finale in smoke with the acrid side of the roasting, lightly lactic, oily texture, medium body, a bit thin, not much carbonation, lightly astringent; overall: correct FRANÇAIS Bouteille brune, 355 ml, savourée le 26 mai 2007; œil : rubis, claire, pas d’effervescence, mousse beige; nez : fumée, torréfaction, « frais »; bouche : la première impression est « aqueuse », malt caramélisé, fumée, torréfaction, un peu d’amertume, finale en fumée avec le petit côté âcre de la torréfaction, légèrement lactique, texture huileuse, corps moyen, un peu mince, peu carbonatée, légère astringence; en résumé : correct
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 May 2007
at 14:55
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Brown bottle, 355 ml, label read as Finger Lakes Stout, savoured on May 6 2007; eye: dark burgundy, light effervescence, clear, thin beige head; nose: caramelized roasted malt, vanilla, light chocolate, cocoa; mouth: lots of vanilla, roasted malt, lightly acrid, fizzy, a bit of grainy hops, finale in roasted malt that is slightly acrid and a good presence of vanilla, slightly oily texture, lightly bitter, medium body; overall: a bit disappointed FRANÇAIS Bouteille brune, 355 ml, étiquette montre Finger Lakes Stout, savourée le 6 mai 2007; œil : bourgogne foncée, légère effervescence, claire, petite mousse beige; nez : malt torréfié caramélisé, vanille, léger chocolat, cacao; bouche : assez vanillée, malt torréfié, légèrement âcre, pétillante, petite amertume granuleuse, finale en malt torréfié légèrement âcre avec une bonne présence de vanille, texture légèrement huileuse, légèrement amère, corps moyen; en résumé : petite déception
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 May 2007
at 15:59