4.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Light golden beer with a thin white head. Aroma is lightly funky grass, with light pear notes. In mouth, a decent caramel malt, grainy with fruity sweet notes, more berry-ish. Light bodied. Might be on verge of infection. Bought by Inertia Boy, August 2006.
Tried
on 14 Sep 2006
at 17:43
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
On tap at Pub Italia (Satan’s Killer Red) on Friday August 18, 2006. Dark amber ale with a thin white head. Lightly sweet malt with strong butterscotch notes. A sweet malt in mouth with very light hopping, and caramel notes. Lightly oily mouthfeel, but too light bodied in my taste.
Tried
from Draft
on 20 Aug 2006
at 16:08
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Golden ale with a thin white head. Strong diacetyl and buttery aroma., sweetish and overbearing. In mouth, a crisp malt with sweet honey notes, a bit cloying, buttery mouthfeel, and some light nuts. Medium bodied. Bottle was a gift from Karl. Merci! Sampled with Mtl crew, April 16 2006.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 May 2006
at 10:23
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Deep brown body, medium tan head. Strong roasted malt aroma with touches of coffee and dark chocolate. Thin, somewhat sour, acidic body, with chocolate (Hershey’s syrup) and roasted malt, neither too sweet nor too dry, but somewhat unpleasant. The remainder tastes like stale toast, the kind that was burned and left on the counter for several hours. A disappointing beer.
Tried
on 25 Apr 2006
at 19:32
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Deep cranberry juice-red body, thin buff head. Toasty aroma, earthy peat, and smoke, but the latter is not overpowering. The body, though, is replete with smokehouse flavors, blending with caramels, toast, and dark fruits with a tart kick and finish. Reasonably tasty, but I get the feeling that behind the smoke lurks a rather thin, ordinary beer. Thanks Paul (blankboy) for the bottle!
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Feb 2006
at 18:55
4.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Bottle: Poured a medium yellow color beer with a small head with almost no retention. Aroma is weak with only subtle hops being distinguishable. Taste is also a bit weak with more malt and hops then your average macros but not enough to truly satisfy a beer geek I guess (which is not the goal of the brewer here I think).
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jun 2005
at 14:56
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle: Poured a light yellow color ale with a huge bubbly head with average retention. Aroma of cranberry bubblegum? mix with some strong wheat malt. Taste is very refreshing with lots of tart cranberry, strong wheat malt and some well balance sweetness from the maple. Nice mix between a wheat beer and a fruit beer. I’m starting to really like brewery.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Jun 2005
at 09:14
5.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Draught, Winking Judge
Light copper. Clean malty character. Bready fresh and warming. Aroms is lightly fuggley. Quite respectable issuance from John Graham.
Light copper. Clean malty character. Bready fresh and warming. Aroms is lightly fuggley. Quite respectable issuance from John Graham.
Tried
on 07 Apr 2005
at 22:50
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle: Poured a black color ale with medium head with very little retention. Aroma is lightly smoked with some strong malt. Taste is quite enjoyable, almost like a mix between a light scotch ale with some notes of malt a little bit of smoke. As previously mentioned in past rating, body is a bit thin and I’m not sure this should be considered a smoke ale since there is very little smoke in this.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Feb 2005
at 10:39
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle: Poured a pitch black porter with a timid head with almost no retention. Aroma is quite sweet with some notes of roasted malt. Taste is very representative of the name, i.e. tons of sweet chocolate with some roasted malts. Would make a great combo with some chocolate cake. Lack a bit of bitterness and body to make truly world class but still very much enjoyable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Feb 2005
at 10:31