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ABV: 7.25%. Hazy medium orange yellow colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, moderate hoppy, orange, blood orange, artificial orange, candy - artificial candy, grapefruit - lemon. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average duration, herbs, orange - blood orange, artificial orange, citrus - grapefruit - lemon. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20180810]
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Cask gravity at GBBF 2018. It pours cloudy orange with a medium foamy white head. The aroma is rather, sweet, oily, artificial fruit vibes, oily, fruit cordial, tinned fruit and umbungo. The taste is bitter - sweet, oily, artificial fruity character, orange fruits, tinned peach, raw hop burn, spice, grass, sugary, fruit syrup and booze with a drying finish. Medium body and soft carbonation. Comes across rather fake. Not great...

Clear bright amb bod med foam wht head. Toffee bready arma. Toffee bready flav some toasty. Med bod mod carb. 6/3/6/3/12 3.0

From a 12 oz bottle. Pours a crystal clear gold with a white head. Aroma of biscuit and dough. Flavosare moderately sweet malt.

Bottle. Orange pour. Aroma of orange, grapefruit, bready malt and citrus. Taste has soft piney garlic hop, citrus, bready malt, grapefruit and bitter herbs. Nice classic is IPA.

$7.99 bomber, Wine Warehouse. I passed this by countless time thinking I'd had it... guess not. Pours brown, clear, small off-white head. Aroma is licorice, rye, slightly burnt malt, citrus. Flavor is burnt molasses, tart pine, grapefruit peel, rye, thick caramel. Quite tasty. Really interesting.

Deep dark brown coloured body with a slightly lighter and more clear amber, ruby and violet tint with a small, single centimetre tall tan head that fades quite quickly. Aroma of molasses, caramel, toffee, earth, nuts, figs, plums, vanilla, oak, dry grain and a big dose of alcohol warmth. Full-bodied; Strong oaky and vanilla flavours at first with some cognac and bourbon notes along with a good deal of sugars, most arriving from pitted fruit and caramelised sugars but some from molasses and a touch of honey also noticeable on the end (more like buckwheat-based honey) and a great balance of malt with some specialty grains around, but all dried out by the grain and oaky finish. Aftertaste shows a lot of alcohol, some cognac elements with a dry vanilla flavour, but the grain and earthy malts hit soon afterwards and only leave a bit of the toffee and molasses behind to attempt to balance it all out. Overall, a nicely structured and robust beer with a lot of flavour, complexity and depth; Even while the alcohol hasn't tempered too much in two+ years, the body has thinned out and the flavours are mellowing out too, it seems, with a softer beer throughout aside from the alcohol notes still evident. Nice to sample, but if I had another bottle of this (I don't), I'd keep it for another three years at least, so 5+ years, which is tough to do in this current environment of cellar-based beers. I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased from Costco in Pentagon City (Arlington), Virginia on 01-May-2016 for US$7,69 sampled at home in Washington, a few blocks away on 14-June-2018, a bit more than two years after purchasing the beer, with a vintage of 2016 on front.

Clear gold bod sml wht head. Bready earthy arma. Earthy floral flav. Med bod mod carb. 7/3/7/3/13 3.3