5.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Draft - Sweet green apple. Clear gold, no head or effervescence. Think jolly rancher, very candy sweet with a mild tart finish. Not bad on a hot day but a bit sweet.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Aug 2013
at 13:56
7/10
Strong & sweet maltiness, layer of chewy caramel (reminds me of caramel squares), bit bready, dried cranberries
Tried
on 14 Aug 2013
at 15:08
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle - Toffee, raisin, toasted malts and rum. Clear but dark amber with a thin brown head. Boozy toffee, some dark fruit and alcohol burn. Finish has a bit of bitterness and is quite dry. Not very well balanced in my opinion and too much booze.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Jul 2013
at 14:36
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
650ml bottle [8.2% abv as per label. Thanx to Antonie and Patrick!]. Darkest brown colour with average, firm, frothy to creamy, fairly lasting, moderately lacing, beige to tan head. Dark malty aroma with a roasty touch, hints of coffee, a touch of ashes, cautious hints of blue and other dark berries, herbal and earthy hoppy overtones. Taste is dry to bitter hoppy, minimally sweet fruity undertones, hints of blue and dark berries, some milk chocolate and dark bitter chocolate; lasting bitter finish. Black IPA with a somehow unpresent, supplementing malt basis, very integrated flavours making it hard to set a demarcation line between hop and malt partitions. And exactly therefore unhappily a bit too unhopp(il)y.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Jul 2013
at 19:43
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle - Roasted malts, chocolate and slight raspberry. Jet black with a thin brown head. Raspberry dominates right out of the gate followed by the roasted malts and chocolate undertones. A bit sweet which sits on the palate but not bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jul 2013
at 12:08
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle 22fl.oz.Clear dark black brown colour with a average to large, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly to fully lasting, off-white to beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, caramel, coffee, moderate hoppy, grass, citrus, orange - citrus. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and light heavy bitter with a long duration, roasted, hoppy, chocolate, dry, coffee, dark roasted. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20130222]
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jun 2013
at 04:02
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6
On tap. Pours a hazy brown with light head. Aromas of smoky resin and dried fruit. Flavours of pineapple and grain.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Jun 2013
at 21:53
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
750 ml bottle. Pours and orange/amber with medium head. Aromas of caramel, wood, and malts. Vinous flavors including green wood, vinegar. Odd and lacking balance.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jun 2013
at 20:22
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle from LCBO. Pours a very dark brown with a one finger foamy beige head that disappears quickly. Aroma is chocolate and malt with piney hops in the background. Sweet chocolate and coffee with bitterness at the end. Very well balanced. Nice creamy mouth and not nearly as heavy as it looks. All that is good in a stout and an IPA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 May 2013
at 17:59
9.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Perfect pour of grey dark beige head and a very brown-black body. Good job on the looks! Solid aroma of overlapping hops with barley notes in the background, creating an appealing complexity: coffee notes, chocolate, well balanced indeed. Flavour is a nice bitter mix of heavy hops with barley stout, coffee and bitter hoppiness in a perfect mix. Dry finish. Tree totally hit the mark with this one. Well done.
Tried
on 24 May 2013
at 18:46