6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Citrus and pine hops with a solid malty, caramel backbone. It’s a really easy to drink IPA that still offers up plenty of hop flavor and bitter feel. This is quite the sessionable IPA. Not a palate killer so moving to other beers is still on the table.
Tried
on 23 Mar 2010
at 18:36
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
RBWG 2010. Pours golden orange color with white head. Piney hops aroma. Bitter hop flavor with bready malts. Medium body with average carbonation.
Tried
on 22 Mar 2010
at 12:35
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
2009 bottle, pours light amber with a medium off white head. Aroma is hot, lots of alcohol and sweet bready malts. Flavor is big, lots of caramel malt, munich and alcohol.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Mar 2010
at 10:42
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
RBWG@RLRL-thanks to Rciesla-1L bottle– pours a white head and hazy gold color. Aroma is floral, pepper, sweet light/medium malt. Taste is floral, pepper, sweet light/medium malt.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Mar 2010
at 09:53
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
2009 gusher thanks to bu11zeye. Pours with a huge, deep brown head over a near black body. Aroma of brown sugar, toffee, bitter chocolate, coffee and oak. Taste is dry with some bitter cocoa, bitterness, and a touch of sourness. Chalky. Lively carbonation.
Tried
on 05 Mar 2010
at 10:46
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
1 L bottle. Dark brown to black with a small tan head. Aroma is dark fruity and hard roasted malty. Smooth roasted and dark malty. Liqourice and dark breadish. Lingering dark malty finish. Smooth and nicely balanced.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Feb 2010
at 09:56
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Sampled on draft at the Rivertowne Pub in North Huntingdon PA this beer poured a dark red-caramel color with a small khaki head that produced good lacing. The aroma was light floral and fruity hops. The flavor was dry and bitter with a touch of nut and a crisp floral and fruity hop presence. The finish was long, dry, bitter and hoppy. Body was a touch thin. Decent.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Feb 2010
at 17:34
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 2
Overall 6.5
Great packaging, with the green wax and the brown paper. Unfortunately, the beer is flat, and in some barley wines, that works. This is not one of them. Some oxidation. Aroma has brown sugar and malt, and it is a little sweet. High abv is well hidden. A well made beer, but something went wrong, maybe in bottling.
Tried
on 31 Jan 2010
at 11:06
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 9
Sampled from a 1L bottle at the Hopsnobbery Collective Stout tasting on 01/23/10. Pours a sludgy opaque black with a medium tan head that diminishes quickly. Top ring of lacing on the glass. Aroma of burnt malt, coffee and dark chocolate. there was a touch of paint thinner in the nose at first but it disappeared quickly. Full body with flavors of roasted coffee, charred wood, malt and hops. The finish is roasty with a lingering coffee and bittersweet chocolate aftertaste. Easily the best East End beer I have tried, and a very good Imperial Stout overall.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jan 2010
at 12:03
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle at 14th Richmond Ratebeer Gathering on 03/19/2011 courtesy of BrewEngineer. 2010 Bottle 791/1500. Clear dark amber body with a small frothy off-white head. Sweet yeast and caramel aroma. Sweet toasty and caramel malt with some yeasty notes. Medium body with moderate carbonation. 6/3/6/3/13 - 3.1 Bottle courtesy of Kinz on 09/12/2009. This seems to be the 2007 bottle. Somewhat hazy dark brown body with a medium off-white head. Big caramel and light Belgian spice aroma. Sweet caramel. spice, and light molasses and floral hop flavor. Medium full body with moderately low carbonation. 8/4/7/3/16 - 3.8
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Dec 2009
at 14:48