7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle 10C. Black with a towering tan head. Aroma of chocolate, toast, nectarines, meadows, coffee. Taste has a hoppy bitter initial bite before roasted flavours poke through with chocolate and some stewed and stone fruits. Astringent coffee finish has some pine. Bitterness lingers. That sounds (to me) like a horrible mess, but it works pretty well:- it’s quite light and the disparate flavours are well-balanced. The price is a lack of depth in the roasted and fruit flavours making it less than fully mouth-filling. I guess that’s very good in a style I’m not convinced I need.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Nov 2010
at 03:51
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle thanks to Baggio. Murky dark brown with a few bubbles. Aroma of honey and bread. Fruity flavor with lots of honey, oranges, bread, a bit of alcohol. Dirty hop finish with mild bitterness. Light body. Interesting and very drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Oct 2010
at 07:05
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Pours hazy dark coppery brown. Very small head. Somehow elegant though.Nose shows lots of honey with hints of gum tree blossom and some underlying soft alcohol and grainy malt. Definitely centred towards the honey rather than the malt.Very bold boozy flavours, still quite a lot of sweet honey mixing with cinnamon before the alcohol and mild hops bitterness roll though, blasting everything else. Definitely one fore sipping.Mouthfeel is light but velvety smooth (thanks to the alcohol?). Very low carbonation.I think I’d like more malt, it seems to drop short after the initial burst of honey.
Tried
on 14 Oct 2010
at 03:56
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Hazy orangey amber with a very modest white head. Lemony aroma with tart apples and a little wheaty bread. Watery - no liquid bread here. Taste has some apples and pears and lemony sourness. Nothing much in the way of banana or spices, although there’s a little white pepper. Odd, but refreshing. [2.5] Tap. Hazy orange amber, white head. Aroma has lots of banana, some vanilla and cloves. Quite bready with vanilla, slight lemony tartness, cloves. Completely different and much better, but this time too much banana for me.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Sep 2010
at 05:11
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
From a 330ml bottle on 14/9/2010. Moderate aroma of banana and sugar. Flavour wise, there’s not too much going on. There’s a hint of hefe spice and banana. It’s milky in texture, quite sweet and has little to offer on the bitterness front. A fairly ordinary effort.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Sep 2010
at 02:38
7/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. Dark red - just a little darker than stringybark honey. No head to speak of, although there is some carbonation. Aroma of caramel, honey and spices - nutmeg, cloves, cardamon. Some cheesy yeast too - suggestive of St Bernadus 8. Quite boozy. Slightly syrupy texture. Taste has some stewed fruits as well as honey and some spicy bitterness along with the honey and alcohol at the finish. Not terribly complex and the alcohol is a bit prominent, but this is a pretty stylish drop.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Sep 2010
at 07:59
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Super hazy, muddied ruby coloured brown body with some copper and bronze highlights and a very thin, fast-dying tan head. Aroma of metal, peaches, nuts, caster sugar, alcohol, pit fruits, raisins and a touch of light hops - definitely not the strongest of the scents though! Medium-bodied; Strong metallic and malty flavours show up first, then fade to a hoppy overtone and a bit of a raisiny and pit fruity (almost like a barley wine) flavour. Overall, an okay IPA, definitely not what i’m used to from American IPAs, but showing a lot of malt, a lot of raisins and a lot of character from this beer. I sampled this 330 mL bottle purchased from SlowBeer in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on 31-December-2009 for AU$4.30 sampled at home on the other side of the world in Washington on 06-September-2010.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Sep 2010
at 22:22
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle at ChrisO "I’m Trying to see the Stool" pre GBBF2010 tasting. Black, lasting tan head. Bit of staleness I guess this was left over from when Kook was last over, so not exactly fresh.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Aug 2010
at 03:47
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
31st July 2010. ChrisO’s ’Raise The Roof’ tasting.
Opaque black beer with a good tan head. Light palate - very soft and airy. Tangy and very lightly smoky. A little sour fruit underneath. Nice.
Opaque black beer with a good tan head. Light palate - very soft and airy. Tangy and very lightly smoky. A little sour fruit underneath. Nice.
Tried
on 19 Aug 2010
at 14:17
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle 75cl. @ ChrisOs Pre-GBBF Shindig 2010.[ Raise The Roof Tasting ]. Clear dark black brown color with a large, creamy, good lacing, fully lasting, beige head. Aroma is heavy malty, roasted, burnt, dusty coffee. Flavor is heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, coffee - chocolate, hoppy. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20100731]
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Aug 2010
at 14:58