5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 5
Pour is a tea colored brown with a small tan head. Aroma is a nice with a mix of caramel malts and brown sugar. Flavor is a big let down almost to the point of being nothing. Some malts do show up after the swallow but this is really thin. Your could prob shotgun this right out of the can no problem.
Tried
from Can
on 17 Oct 2008
at 21:15
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Liquor Max in Loveland, CO. Reddish copper color with a decent beige head. Mixed floral and resin aromas over roasted caramel. Medium body with mild carbonation. The flavor is really fruity, and lushly hoppy, rather than bitter. The flavor is exceptional. There is no hop burn. It borders upon astringency. There’s always a little sweet, but it’s really nicely balanced. Absolutely no heat. A really good beer, but perhaps not for the hopheads who wants their tastebuds burned out. Again, it’s not harsh bitter, but it’s easy to believe it’s 95 IBU.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Oct 2008
at 21:03
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
12 oz. can and likin’ that! Nice light malt beer smell that nonetheless I can easily detect when opened. Pours golden and slightly hazy. In my small tumbler it kicks up a big spongy head. Malt with some sweetness and a slightly metallic hop signature. Somehow reminds me of regular beer back when Dad drank it. Wayyy too fizzy, in fact, bubbles bring in some harsh malt liquor type flavors. And way too fizzy for any style with English beer roots.
Tried
from Can
on 03 Oct 2008
at 22:50
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottled. Dark color, thick off-white head. Aroma of grinded coffee, some chocolat, hint of blackcurrant. Malty taste, coffee, quite bitter, slight alcohol burn. Ok stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Sep 2008
at 21:04
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle: Pours a deep, rich brown that is near black. Tiny thin head. Smells rich with roasty malt and light chocolate tones. Tastes roasty and sweet. Chocolate and malt with a little bitters in the trailer. A little light in the flavor intensity. Decent. Thanks to sparky27 for sending this one.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Sep 2008
at 10:22
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Courtesy of Gunhaver. Pours deep darkness with a thin tan head. The aroma is roasty with mild burnt malts, faint nuttiness and some alcohol heat. The taste is porter-like with notes of chocolate, fruit cake, vanilla and some tasty burnt malt notes. Very nice roasty to toffee to burnt malts into the finish. Yum.
Tried
on 05 Aug 2008
at 20:49
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Hazy amber with medium off white head. Sweet and mild hoppy aroma with caramel notes. Hoppy flavor with grapefruit, caramel and piney notes. Ends bitter.
Tried
on 31 Jul 2008
at 17:02
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
From bottle #33 at sk8vikings American blind tasting. Pours hazy to cloudy to orange with a lacing white head. Nice dense peach and orangefruity hoppy aroma. Flavour is sweet and floral hoppy. Light yeasty touch. Nice citric and fruity hops finish with a nice subdued sweetness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Jul 2008
at 05:27
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Lactose aroma. A little sweet with more lactose in the aroma along with lightly roasted malt. Black in color and average palate. I don’t like lactose in my stouts but this one does an OK job with it.
Tried
on 15 Jul 2008
at 21:01
8.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Beautiful amber color, with a big creamy head. Sweet and fruity aroma (mango? apricot?) Then some herbal hop comes out. Good body structure, with sweet toffee flavor, and a fruity bitterness, but not extreme. Very good.
Tried
on 14 Jun 2008
at 03:52