Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
10 oz draft pour at the brewpub. Pour is red golden, clear body with a one inch off white head. Nice thick lacing is left behind on the glass. Pretty beer. Aroma of mild biscuit malt, some resin bitter hoppiness. Taste is big resin bitterness, peaty maltiness, some more maltiness. Palate is drying, long, bitter and resinous. Nice one.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Taster @ the brewpub. Clor is clear brown. Aroma is disappointing right away, too young, too green, just out of control spiky esters. Taste is the same, comes off as a sweet colvent like flavor. They needed to let this one sit.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Taster @ the brewpub. Color is completely clean copper. Aroma is lightly fruity and earthy German lager yeast, that only that combination can bring. Taste is clean and lightly earthy. Fine stuff for a doppelbock but a bit boring at the end.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Glass from a growler graciously shared with me by csbosox. Pour is clear ruby brown with a tan head. Aroma of caramel sweetness, some grainy hay. Taste is caramel maltiness, sharp sweetness, with hop bitterness in the finish. Grass and dirty straw throughout. Palate is thin to medium, easy drinking, though still quite a bit of flavor. Overall nice beer. Super cool of you stop by and offer me a glass of this Chris.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Growler, filled about 3 weeks ago - from csbosox. Pour is golden tan with a very hazy, cloudy unfiltered look with a tan one inch off white head. Active carbonation. Decent lacing as head falls quickly. Aroma of fresh clean resin pine hops. Some slightly toasted maltiness present as well. Nice fresh hop nose. Taste is is the resin, malt and pine in that order. The finish features a bit of cardboard and bitter orange peel. Palate is medium, again very much an unfiltered experience. Overall a tasty brew. Thanks for picking this one up for me Chris.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Growler filled at the brewpub, supplied by csbosox. Pour is clear ruby cordovan brown with a 1/2 inch off white head. Aroma of Belgian yeastiness, some wheat, some bananas, touch of spicy clove. Taste is the nose for the most part, but with a nice resin graininess. Palate has a nice lasting clove spiciness to it. Overall a decent attempt at a Dubbel.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
10 oz pour at the brewpub. Pour is clear golden orange with a nice 1 inch off white head. Aroma of not too much, it was served pretty cold. Perhaps some mineral, maybe a hint of the wheat. Taste is toasted malt graininess, mixed in with a nice floral grassiness. Taste is smooth and well integrated. There is a bit of a dirty after taste, though this was a nicely drinkable beer. I had never tried this one in the past, but it was nicely clean and drinkable.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
10 oz pour at the brewpub. Pour is mostly clear brown with ruby highlights. Smallish off white head. Aroma of resin hoppiness, some earthy floral aspects as well. Fresh and inviting nose. Taste is bitter hops initially, with some resin, earthy almost malty peatiness. Interesting and unique. Palate is thin-medium, lingering bitterness. Nice one.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
Snifter pour at brewpub, 2005 vintage. Pours completely black with a strong brown head. Aroma is very boozy with lots of prune. There is also an alcohol licorice mix as well. The beer has an extremely viscous mouthfeel and really works well with this brew. The alcohol lets up in the flavor a bit as well. Has a thick black tea-roast-coffee thing. Love the mouthfeel but the alcohol is too strong on the nose. 7/4/8/5/16.
Oh, the 2004 vintage, about 7 years old, was sublime. The alcohol was not apparent at all in this batch. Chocolatey smoothness all around, a joy to sip on. Still has that great mouthfeel. 8/4/8/5/17
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Growler shared by beastiefan2k at the 10/18 tasting. Pour is slightly hazed golden with a 1/2 inch white head. Aroma of bananas and cloves - a very Hefe nose. There is some buttery caramel present as well as some grassiness. Taste is wheat, rye, more of the sweet buttery caramel sensation. Palate is creamy and slick. No alcohol at all - if this is 8.5, I am not sensing it at all.