6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
courtesy of gillard. Pours copper with beige head. Aroma of oak without the usual Tommy Knocker maple flavors. Taste is fruity (banana bread) with spices (almost peppery) and oak. Mouthfeel and after taste have this lingering spiciness.
Tried
on 27 Nov 2008
at 01:20
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle 355ml.Clear light to medium amber brown color with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, nutty, caramel, chocolate, maple syrup. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. (050808)
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Nov 2008
at 16:42
5.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Yep, label looks just like the picture here. Not too sure what this has to do with winter, as far as I know, the cocoa comes from the warm equator regions. Nice porter aroma, attractive chocolate or cocoa olfactory. Initial taste is chocolaty in nature, like the unsweetened cocoa baking powder your mom used to use. Perhaps there is a little too much of that flavor in here. The honey attributes really don’t add too much to it, except that it makes it sweet in an unkindly unsugar way. Carbonation is there but unnoticeable, due to the attention grabbing flavor. Not like the chocolate attributes you’d find in a good stout. Probably could not drink too many of these in a session. Generally, I found this porter to be a little less likable than most porters I’ve had. Finish is difficult at times and has a nagging unsweetened choco powder linger.
Tried
on 21 Nov 2008
at 19:19
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a hazy bronze color with a small orange-white head. The aroma was lightly sweet and fruity. The flavor was bitter, tangy, sour and had light fruity and floral hops and a touch a nut. Unremarkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Oct 2008
at 16:12
7.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a dark red-chestnut color with a small medium sized tan head. The aroma was sour, tangy, malty and lightly vegetal and lightly fruity. Rather complex on the nose. The flavor was tangy, very very malty and had touches of molasses, caramel, ripe fruity and a long tangy sweet malty finish. The mouthfeel was thick and smooth. Excellent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Oct 2008
at 19:37
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle at home ... from my GBBF Haul ... Red copper ... thin head ... sour malt nose ... medium body an medium carbonation ... quite sweet ith quite a lot of hop in background ... odd low toned bitterness ... and some off fruitness and liqorish.. not workinging for me.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Oct 2008
at 14:16
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottled@SBWF2008. Hazy golden colour, small white head. Aroma is wheat, fudge, caramel and some mild hints of hops. Flavour is hops, fruits, wheat and some grassy notes. Refreshing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Sep 2008
at 13:06
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottled at Stockholm Beer Festival. Nut brown, airy head. Light roasty nose. Medium sweet with rounded Medium bodied and mildy caramelly. Lightly fruity and roasty without getting sticky. A drinker friendly laid back beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Sep 2008
at 04:04
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottled at Stockholm Beer Festival. Mahogany colour, small beige head. Caramelly nose. Sweet with medium to full body. Dominated by malt syrup and molasses. Fruity and caramelly with some roasty coffeeish notes and warming alcohol. Fairly low bitterness. Warming but a bit sticky.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Sep 2008
at 04:03
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottled at Stockholm Beer Festival. Cloudy golden, small head. Orangey vanilla aroma with notes of buckwheat. Mid-sweet with rounded mouthfeel.. Slightly orangey with a bit of soap. Medium bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Sep 2008
at 04:01