5.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 2
Overall 5.5
Brown-reddish body, frotty brownish head. Sweet malt and spicy aroma. It has also a red-wine-aroma. I do like the aroma, but the flavour was a drain pour: little bit malty, but also a little bit acetic. A bittery-sweety initial flavour. A long bitter finish, which gets quite good (at least better than the initial flavour). Very unpleasant mouthfeel.
Tried
on 18 Jan 2004
at 16:49
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Blond colour, white frotty head, little bit lacing. Spicy aroma. Sweety initial flavour, bitter finish.
Tried
on 17 Jan 2004
at 15:04
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6
Blond body, white creamy head. Little bit lacing. Little bit citrus aroma, quite hoppy too. Bittery initial flavour. It gets more and more bitter. Quite long finish.
Tried
on 16 Jan 2004
at 15:29
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Orange gold. Huge, dense white head, good lace. Very yeasty, bready nose and orangezeste. Very dry, very citrussy (orange- or lemonzeste). Flowery bitterness and dryness go all to the end. Medium bodied, dryness makes it seem less (high attenuation). Aftertaste gives some yeast again, and just a touch of liquorice. This is one hell of a dry s... It isn't bad, considering all - had it combined (after tasting) with mussels - great.
Tried
on 03 Oct 2003
at 14:47
6.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Very thick, white head, heavy fizzling, irregular head. Pale orangey colour, hazy. Nose is doughy and ???tapenade!?? (+olive paste). It is the beer, new glass proves it: olive-smell. It becomes repulsive after some time. Quite bitter taste, at first. Slight liquorice background flavour. Bitter isn't hoppy, but vegetable & burnt. Outspoken alcohol-burn. medium-bodied. Bitterness fades, leaving a flavour as of kumquat and malt - supplanting the horrible nose. Nose is impardonnable. Rest is OK, nothing more.
Tried
from Draft
on 03 Apr 2003
at 14:35
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Nose of caramalts indeed, also marzipan and walnutoil. Taste rather sweet, then becoming quite bitter (burnt malts, few hops detectable). Fizzy mouthfeel and bitterness disappears to lingering sweetness. Another ''special'' brew for a marketchain, X-mas issue.
Tried
on 26 Nov 2002
at 07:37