6.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Muddy golden color, bananas, estery nose. Big clovey, bananas notes, but I found it was lacking the soft maltiness of a trademark bock character, though the body was definitely heavier and maltier than a weizen. Decent without blowing me away.
Tried
on 25 May 2009
at 10:23
7.5/10
Mellow hops, sweet and a little spice to it. Hops bite at the tail end but not as strong as i would have liked.
Tried
on 21 May 2009
at 18:17
6.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottled at pre-RBJG festivities in Kyoto. Muddy pale orange. Phenolic banana aroma. estery with toffee and sugar underneath. Sweet with clean mouthfeel and above medium body. Bubblegum and white pepper shows up in a finish with alcohol and some surprising bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 May 2009
at 06:57
7/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bomber thanks to TimE. Light golden honey-like color, though very muddy. Fruity aroma of banana, clove, orange, and a highly sour quality. Sweet flavor of banana and other fruits, medium sourness as well as a relatively strong bitterness with some peppery hops. Lighter in body and more refreshing than expected. Nice summer drink. Original.
Tried
on 06 May 2009
at 22:30
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
(34.1cl bottle) Hazy, amber colour with a short off-white foamy layer. Sweet, slightly sugary bready malty and slightly toasted aroma with a tinge of vegetables. Sweet flavour, light to medium bodied with a calm carbonation. Bready and faint toasted malty taste with notes of candy, leading into a sweetish malty finish with almost no bitterness detectable. Quite one-dimensional brew (09.IV.09).
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Apr 2009
at 20:18
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Bottle (thanx to Jonas!): Hazy, amber coloured, small, lacy off-white layer; moderate aromas of sugar and toasted malt in the nose; light to moderate sweetish-bitter flavour, quite light bodied; sweetish toasty-sugary finish. Not bad, but quite uniforme........
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Apr 2009
at 07:28
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bright dark amber colour. Very hoppy with lots of caramel nose. Woody, light orange notes. Bitter, slightly acrid hop. Earthy. The alcohol comes in late. It loses something in translation to double size.
Tried
on 01 Feb 2009
at 12:02
5.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Deep dark brown body almost completely opaque with a thick nice deep brown finish. Aroma of roasted malt, cream, caramel and a bit of raspberries, not much though. Medium-bodied; Strong milky and lactic tastes up front with roasted malt and some sweetness following. Aftertaste shows a bit of raspberries, but more malt than anything else. This one tastes more like a sweet milk stout than a fruit flavoured porter. Overall, a decent beer - but not really worth getting. I sampled this just because it was one of the only few in the store. I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased today, 28-December-2008 at Willow Park Liquors in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Dec 2008
at 01:36
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at Winter Caskival :Cloudy deep amber,small tan head.Citrus lightly cat pissy nose.Softly carbonated, grapefruit hops, lots of malt in back. Light bitter finish
Tried
from Cask
on 18 Dec 2008
at 20:32
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
12oz bottle-pours a dissipating off white head and amber/gold color. Aroma is perfumy, sweet medium malt, pine. Taste is initially resin hops with some bitter, then some medium malt backs it up. Further into the beer some grapefruit/chewy/earth hops come thru. Nice easy drinking IPA. Medium body. OK/mild carbonation. Thanks voonder-Alex & jwc215-Joe for sharing this.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Dec 2008
at 20:13