5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask@Pullman, Helsinki. Orangeish golden colour with a small white head. Aroma is nectar, wood, bready malts and some grassy notes. Flavour is fruity, wooden, nectary and bready malts. Quite bitter and dry finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 07 Jun 2011
at 01:46
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Mr Lawrence Wine Merchants, Brockley. Black pour with a light beige head. Coffee, chocolate malt, dark chocolate, vanilla and fresh cream aromas. Unlike Pinocchio it’s got a very nice nose. Chocolate, vanilla, some coffee and a little licorice flavour. Dry, licorice fuelled light bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 May 2011
at 09:46
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask (handpump) @ The Alexander Graham Bell (JDW), 128 George Street, Edinburgh, Scotland EH2 4JZ.Clear medium orange yellow colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, white to off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, fruty, strawberries. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average to long duration, strawberry, green strawberry bitter. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20101029]
Tried
from Cask
on 22 May 2011
at 13:28
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Bottle. Amber with an inch of white head. Aroma of hard spices and a little lemon. Spicy taste with almost hot ginger. Coriander and cloves are also pretty clear. Mild biscuity malt, dry finish. Started at 10C which was rather too cold, but even as it warmed the spices are a bit much for me.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 May 2011
at 07:02
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Weicher Röstantrunk, der angesichts des voluminösen Geruchs fast schwach erscheint. Wenig schokoladig, eine hintergründige Bitterkeit kommt nach und nach hervor. Zum Ende wenig aromatisch, noch wenig röstig und füllend, aber nicht intensiv, hopfig. Nett! Danke an den Doppelbock für das Bier. 12/9/9/9/8/9
Tried
on 08 May 2011
at 02:29
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Clear dark brown with a coat of beige head but good lacing. Rather modest aroma of chocolate, dark berries, light roast. Thinnish but alive texture. Taste has chocolate, lots of berries, roasted bitterness, coffee, licorice. Tasty, balanced. A good one from the Mild end of Porter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 May 2011
at 06:06
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pours black with a small, creamy light tan head leaving lots of lacing.Nose shows cocoa, dark chocolate, roasted malt and caramel.Flavours include more roasted malt with coffee characters and faint chocolate. Some initial sweetness quickly fades into a dry finish.Body feels watery.
Tried
on 04 May 2011
at 01:22
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pours amber with a very large, lasting head and lots of lacing.Nose shows lots of spices, I’d take a guess at ginger, coriander, cinnamon and cloves. Underneath is lots of sweet malt and hints of brandy and raisins.The spices transfer through stongly as flavours, but unfortunately not much of the malt does. Prominent grainy notes, alcohol and astringency detract from the experience.Carbonation could be higher and the body feels watery.
Tried
on 27 Apr 2011
at 19:04
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle from the Cave. Dark golden colour, off-white head. Aroma is spicy, bit of cinnamon, caramel malts. Flavour is caramel malts, cinnamon. A bit sugary.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Apr 2011
at 11:30
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
(Cask at Akkurat, Stockholm, 8 April 2011. 4.6% abv) Golden amber colour with foamy, off-white head. Fruity, malty nose with peaches, flowers and ripe pears. Fruity taste with notes of citrus, peaches, pears and a floral bitterness in the finish. Rather light body, quite sweet. Enjoyable and refreshing.
Tried
from Cask
on 10 Apr 2011
at 08:21