7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
On tap @ Skyview’s bar during the Thrila in Bob’s Villa. This beer is over a year old now. Poured into a copita glass with an all black body and a large brown head, very dark head. Aroma is thick, oily, even salty,sweetly bittered, and chocolate. Definitely boozy, man its everything you want in a punch-you-in-the-face Impy. Taste is is still hoppy and bitter from the hops. Mouthfeel //is thick and viscous, perfect for this type of beer. Definitely cool st//uff, a bit too aggressive still, I would like to try this again in another year. 8/4/8/4/16
Rerate: 12oz bottle, 2011. Its a beautiful beer, thick large ass brown head. Aroma is all hops, tropical hops mostly, and bitter on the nose. Same in the flavor, covering up the rest of the beer. Thick mouthfeel. When I tried it the first time I thought it was too hopoy and it was a year old. Fresher this is way too hoppy. I would like to try this with 2 years on this at least. 7/5/7/4/15.
Rerate: 12oz bottle, 2011. Its a beautiful beer, thick large ass brown head. Aroma is all hops, tropical hops mostly, and bitter on the nose. Same in the flavor, covering up the rest of the beer. Thick mouthfeel. When I tried it the first time I thought it was too hopoy and it was a year old. Fresher this is way too hoppy. I would like to try this with 2 years on this at least. 7/5/7/4/15.
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Jan 2009
at 11:56
5.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
12 ounce bottle brought to me by a friend vacationing in Wisconsin. Thanks! Pours a clear ruby color with a medium off-white head. Good head retention and lacing. Aroma is very grainy with some roasty notes. Taste is green apple, sweaty graininess and some toasted malts and caramel. There’s some bad and some good here. Medium bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Jan 2009
at 21:12
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. Pours a clear amber color with a small off white head that diminishes to nothing. The aroma is a fruity malt with raisin and caramel. Decent spotty lacing on the glass. The tastse is a roasted malt with chocolate and a grain malt finihs. A decent dunkle from Leinenkugels.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Jan 2009
at 08:17
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 5
Clearish red-brown body, thin off-white head. Sweet sugar water/caramel/brown sugar nose, thin, with hints of butterscotch. Sugary body with sharp, prickly carbonation, with light notes of toast, candy corn, and brown sugar. Thin, watery, blah.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Jan 2009
at 00:01
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
draft - Pours dark amber and has a mild caramel malt aroma. There’s a nutty toasted caramel malt flavor. It’s sweet and there might be a hint of hops in there. Unfortunately this beer was too bland. I’ll have to agree with the general ho-hum reaction of most raters here.
Tried
from Draft
on 04 Jan 2009
at 06:34
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Pours a clear amber with a small frothy white head. Not much on the nose but a light malt. Decent spotty lacing on the glass. The taste is a roasted almond with chocolate and a sweet caramel finish. A decent brown ale from Linenkugels.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jan 2009
at 20:06
1.5/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 1
Flavor 2
Texture 2
Overall 1
This was actually a sought after beer when I was in college in the Midwest in the 80s. Of course, we usually drank PBR or Red White and Blue. This is a notch up from those. Barely.
Tried
on 03 Jan 2009
at 18:43
2.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 2
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 2
This was actually a sought after beer when I was in college in the Midwest in the 80s. Of course, we usually drank PBR or Red White and Blue. This is a notch up from those. Barely.
Tried
on 03 Jan 2009
at 18:43
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle. Dark amber/copper body, clear with a small, but lasting ivory, fizzy head. Aroma of burnt malts, nuts, caramel. The flavor is moderately sweet and lightly bitter. It finishes lightly sweet with an off-putting tartness. Light to medium body with a watery texture. Fizzy carbonation. I expected a richer beer with lighter roasting of the malts.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jan 2009
at 04:41
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
12oz bottle. Deep filtered amber brown color. Mellow sweet aroma. Light hop balance, with a solid malty taste. Certainly unexceptional, being a little too thin and watery for the style. Some decent fruity Bock tastes with a Dunkel-like mellow sweetness. Sessionable, but not one I’d recommend.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Dec 2008
at 22:04