6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Sample from tap at the brewery. Pours amber with a light brown head. Aroma is soft malty, slight fruity. Flavour is lovely sweet with a good fruitiness. Finish is bitter sweet.
Tried
from Draft
on 30 Jun 2007
at 02:24
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Sample from tap at the brewery. Pours orange with a disappearing head. Aroma is sweet to fruity and citric. Flavour is clear fruity, with a spicy touch. Finish is malty on top of a mild bitterness. Very enjoyable.
Tried
from Draft
on 30 Jun 2007
at 02:24
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Sample from tap at the brewery. Pours dark brown with a light brown head. Aroma is coffee and roasted malt. Flavour is soft malty, roasted, and coffee which goes into the finish with a lovely bitterness.
Tried
from Draft
on 30 Jun 2007
at 02:23
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Sample from tap at the brewery. Pours dark brown with an amber hue, head is a creamy light brown foam. Aroma is soft roasted malt, coffee and slight fruity. Soft mouthfeel. Flavour is mild malty, only slight sweet. Finish is roasted mild.
Tried
from Draft
on 30 Jun 2007
at 02:21
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Pours red, with copper lacing. This beer was fruitier than I was expecting, and less hoppy than most IPA’s. All in all a decent beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 May 2007
at 16:00
5.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 6
12 oz bottle with a twist off cap, shorter than usual and it reminds me of S/N. Twist off the lid and I get an eartly roasty aroma somewhat like a water extinguished camp fire. Back of the throat burnt bitterness greets the palate but this is not over the top, seems to be acceptable at first. The pour is very dark but not opaque, I can see tinges of orange showing thru. Carbonation is decent and welcomed, has a good tingle about it that many dark beers lack. That burnt bitter sensation keeps building on the back of my throat, almost like meat that was burnt on the grill. Good roasted malt or wood flavors. East End Pink Clouds and Yuengling Black & Tan have overall better impressions than this. Better than Arcadia London and Weyer’s Black Hole. Also much, much better than Yard’s General Washington. Overall a good representation of a dark beer, better than average.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 May 2007
at 12:28
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
A deep dark porter with a thin moka head. A herbal malt and chocolate aroma with light hopping, floral and restrained. Some chick peas develop too. In mouth, a classy robust porter with bitter chocolate, roasted coffee, medium bodied, nice bitterness lingering. Bottle from Piscator, BB July 16 2005, more than 1 yr old. 7-4-8-4-14
Tap version. A deep dark brown porter with a thin light moka head. A pleasant chocolate aroma, with light vanilla, hops and fruity esters. In mouth, a good bitter chocolate with herbal hops, cold coffee, a classic porter. On tap at Ike’s MSP, Sept. 13 2009. 8-3-8-3-14
Tap version. A deep dark brown porter with a thin light moka head. A pleasant chocolate aroma, with light vanilla, hops and fruity esters. In mouth, a good bitter chocolate with herbal hops, cold coffee, a classic porter. On tap at Ike’s MSP, Sept. 13 2009. 8-3-8-3-14
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Mar 2007
at 17:04
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Rather clear amber color with quite a bit of carbonation and a small white head that has died down to a thin surface covering in short order. Aromas are sweet and grainy with a little bit of a grassy note in the background. Flavor is much heavier than I expected. You can tell that it has a 7% ABV and there is a solid malt body that supports it. That said, I’m not sold on it... the flavors are OK, but nothing that is going to make my week. Subtle mix of intriguing flavors is not why you would buy this... Big alcohol body... sure.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Feb 2007
at 19:31
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottled. Opens and pours with a nice warm malty smell. Deep brown body, thin tan head. For its color, a closer sniff brings up a suprising whiff of porter type cooffee roast malts. And yup, a deep coffee roast in the tast. Drinks a heck of a lot like a porter. Then some honey seems to pop in, and then a bit of light spicing, more in the sage or allspice range (but then my miserable score on the Floosmoor 12 Days shows I can’t be judging spices). Off-style carbonation is a detraction, but otherwise, it’s a very good commercial beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jan 2007
at 22:49
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Tap. Amber in color, nice white head. Aroma is malty. Taste is malt, with a nice full finish. Very solid beer.
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Dec 2006
at 10:16