330ml bottle @ PBF 2013

Pours dark orange with a smooth head. Aroma of sweet sticky malts, syrup, honey, yeast and goo. Taste is sweet, vinous, malty and syrupy with notes of honey, stingy grape notes, hints of yeast and grain. Finish is sticky, malty and sweet with vinous grape, honey and yeast. A bit strange and unbalanced.

Bottled at PBF. Hazy golden, small head honey and white pepper up front. Mid sweet with medium body. Meadlike slenderness with white wine. Deceptive in its drinkability. Warming finish with low bitterness.

I picked this up at Bottleshop, Marseille, France consumed in the graveyard nr Red Lion, Cropredy Fairport festival Friday 9th August 2013 A quadruple black IPA.Pours a v.dark brown almost black with a large light tan head. Tangy, fruity with a tiny bit of sharpness it is roasty and quite strong. Likeable with a streaky citrus, hoppiness it is good, amazing that it is 11%. Nice A7 A3 T8 P4 Ov15 3.7

Glass, 4-ounce, from a bottle, during the Mondial de la bière, savoured on May 29 2013; eye: black, opaque, no effervescence, no head; nose: woody, hops, alcohol, malt, intense, pepper; mouth: woody, hops, alcohol, malt, intense, pepper, alcohol warmth, woody finale with presence of alcohol, full body, below-average carbonation, mildly sweet, alcoholic and harsh texture; overall: fine FRANÇAIS Verre, 4 onces, d’une bouteille, bue lors du Mondial de la bière, savourée le 29 mai 2013; œil : noire, opaque, pas d’effervescence, pas de mousse; nez : boisé, houblon, alcool, malt, intense, poivre; bouche : boisé, houblon, alcool, malt, intense, poivre, chaleur d’alcool, finale boisée avec présence d’alcool, corsée, carbonatation sous la moyenne, moyennement sucrée, texture alcoolique et rugueuse; en résumé : bien

BOTTLE as Triple Brune IPA at Cave a bulles.

Head: beige, medium, frothy, avg. retention. Colour: deep red-brown.

Aroma: aromatic hops, string caramel, a bit medicinal.

Taste: caramel, herbs, moderate hop bitterness.

Bouteille 33cl, BB 01/2015. Brune foncée, épais crémeux moka. Arôme malté entre chocolaté et torréfié. Pointe de fruits noirs? Houblons restent assez modérés avec qcq notes de citrons le tout oscillant plus sur le neutre de part l’effet des malts qui dominent. Le bouquet semble, sauf erreur de ma part, donner une très fine note d’acétique-levure. Palais est épais axé sur les malts. Le tout reste néanmoins assez faible pour une bière tirant 11%. Malt grillé, profil restant sec et poussiéreux avec ce fini de vieux café. Pétillance est faible avec une amertume des houblons restituant un côté citronné sur pointe de pamplemousse qui peine à percer. Je note également une petite note aigre en toute fin de bouche. Probablement du à la levure.

A dark amber barley wine with a thin mocha head. In aroma, sweet caramel malt with roasted and vinous notes, sugar cane, molasses and floral hops. In mouth, sweet burned caramel with vinous notes, floral hops, light licorice, alcohol burn, nice. Bottle at Mondial, May 31, 2013.

Bottle at the Deanso’s monthly RB tasting, July 2013. Poured a clear chesnut brown with no head and no carbonation at all. The aroma is pure rich alcohol. This is not black and its no IPA. It’s more like a regular cognac to be honest. This really is 24% or more. It’s not a beer IMO and hard to rate. Interesting to taste in very small quantities. I could not drink a whole bottle!