5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottle. Pours the color of a slightly tarnished penny with a minimal head and aromas that are heavy with earthy and caramelly malts. Almost a smokiness to it with some fruit jam. Flavor is cloying... overly sweet maple syrup malt with little else to balance things out. Blech!
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Aug 2008
at 23:29
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottled@GBBF2008. Deep amber colour, mediumsized beige head. Aroma is maple syrup, sweet alcohol and caramel malts. Also some berries and fruits. Flavour is mainly the same in a sweet way.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Aug 2008
at 13:10
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottled@GBBF2008. Deep amber colour, small brown head. Aroma is syrup, oak and malts with some nutty hints. Flavour is syrup, wood and caramel malts. Sweet, but good. Warming alcohol in finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Aug 2008
at 12:42
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle from GBBF 08. Having had a couple of hundred German beers, I still haven’t found many from N.America that match them. This is beautifully clear ruby, thin lasting beige head. Fruit, deep dark jammy, some red fruits, bit of syrupy malt all on the aroma. It’s a fair crack at a doppelbock. Full enough in mouth. There is some dry malt in there and some sweetish alcohol. The sweet strawberry jam flavour is rather lovely. Bit like me mam’s homemade strawberry jam. Never too syrupy. If anything quite light on the swallow. Hops on end give a tingling finish. Very impressive.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Aug 2008
at 11:35
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Brown with medium beige head. Sweet aroma with roasted malt, caramel and nutty notes. Sweet flavor with notes of chocolate, nuts, roasted malt and caramel. Ends sweet with warming alcohol.
Tried
on 06 Aug 2008
at 18:00
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Clear dark amber with medium off white head. Sweet aroma with caramel and toasted malt with hops to go. Sweet malty flavor with caramel and hoppy notes. Ends bitter.
Tried
on 06 Aug 2008
at 17:58
4.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Bottle. Although the label says \"Amber lager,\" pour is more like a dark, dark amber (or maybe tarnished penny color). Head is minimal and aromas are of sweet malts and dust. I recoiled from the first sip... don’t know if it hit me just wrong or what, but things got better after tht. Still, flavors are a dull mix of sweet malts and a bit of a spice presence. I’m not sure if I’m broken or what, but I’m just not appreciating this very much.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Aug 2008
at 22:39
5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottle. Appearance is a slighty hazy gold with minimal carbonation after a smallish, white head forms. Aromas are thick with bready malt and grass but also contain a bit of a funky smell... like old shoes or something. Flavor is nice enough... bread and grass with a slight ammount of peppery hops. Not bad, not great.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Aug 2008
at 23:04
3.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 2.5
Yes, ornery is certainly appropriate here. Yeasty bready dough smell, sometimes quite aromatic. Taste is rather raw. A little obtuse on the bitterness. Difficult to enjoy once it starts to warm. Orange brown in color. ong lingering medicinal bitterness on the finish. No way is this an american dark lager. More like a IPA or stronger APA. If it is an ADL, it’s one of the lest enjoyable I’ve had. Probably an insult to the style I affectionally know as gentle american dark lager.
Tried
from Can
on 31 Jul 2008
at 07:35
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a bright berry red color with a medium sized khaki head. The aroma was musty and off with a light berry undertone. The flavor was tart and tangy blueberry and other vague berries that turns a bit dry towards the long, tart finish. Nice but with notable flaws.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Jul 2008
at 20:28