6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle Appellation Wines, Comely Bankers Draught tasting. 9.0%. Pours hazy amber with a thin white head. Aromas of spice, caramel, almonds, cake mix. Taste is sweet. Sweet finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Jan 2016
at 13:09
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle at appellation. Pours deep orange brown, nose is malty toffee, caramel, taste is similar, sweet, light fruit.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Jan 2016
at 13:07
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
22 ounce bottle into snifter, 2015 vintage bottling. Pours pitch black color with a 1-2 finger dense and rocky tan head with great retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lasts. Dense soapy lacing clings around the glass, with a good amount of streaming carbonation retaining the head. Awesome appearance. Aromas of big dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, molasses, toasted dark bread, nuttiness, light smoke/char, light licorice/raisin, herbal, light pepper, and roast/toasted earthiness. Fantastic aromas with awesome complexity and balance of dark/roast/bready malt and light-moderate earthy hop notes; with great strength. Taste of big dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, molasses, toasted dark bread, nuttiness, light smoke/char, light licorice/raisin, herbal, light pepper, and roast/toasted earthiness. Light-moderate herbal/spicy hop and roast/char bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, molasses, toasted dark bread, nuttiness, light smoke/char, light licorice/raisin, herbal, and roast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Incredible complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; with an awesome roasted bitter/sweet balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Light-medium carbonation and fairly full bodied; with a very smooth, creamy/silky, and lightly sticky/chalky balanced mouthfeel that is awesome. Alcohol is very well hidden with only a light warmth lingering after the finish. Overall this is an absolutely amazing Russian imperial stout. All around incredible complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; and very smooth to sip on for the huge ABV. An insanely delicious offering.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jan 2016
at 22:43
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
From tap. Pours clear and golden amber to brown with a small tan head. Roasted, breadish and caramelish. Toffee, caramelish and bitter. Toasted and dark malty finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Jan 2016
at 05:11
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Sample@Taphouse, Copenhagen - brown pour with a reddish hue. Aroma and taste is sweet bready toasty malty, some light roasty notes, some toffee and caramel sweetness, some nutty nuances, pretty decent overall.
Tried
from Draft
on 08 Jan 2016
at 09:51
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Draft. A deep red beer with a huge tan head. The aroma has notes of malt, caramel, and bread. The flavor is sweet with notes of bread, caramel, and malt, leading to a dry roasted finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 08 Jan 2016
at 05:59
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Amber beer with a cream head. Light tropical fruit and light grapefruit aroma. Tropical fruit and light grapefruit flavor with light pine. Medium bodied. Tropical fruit and grapefruit linger.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jan 2016
at 17:47
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Pour is a clear golden with a large white head. Aroma is a bit of honey, some yeast esters but not much and not much else. Flavor is better with some spicy hops, a dry palate cleansing pale malt and just an ever so slight fruity yeast ester. Not a terribly complex saison. Just decent enough to pick up a bottle to see what the English hops bring to the beer but not enough yeast or peppery spice to make this a top flight saison.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jan 2016
at 16:48
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Tap@Taphouse, Copenhagen - brown pour with beige head. Aroma and taste is sweet malty and dark dried fruity, some caramel and treacle notes, sweet math finish. Fair. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Jan 2016
at 09:33
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pours a black-brown from a bottle with a coffee ice cream colored head, quickly dissipating. Aroma is of chocolate, flavor is primarily cola, some chocolate, slightly smoky but really not that much. A little too effervescent and acidic. Good beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Dec 2015
at 18:16