6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
On tap at the Sockeye brewpub. Pours clear gold with bright white head. The mild aroma is mostly sugary sweet malt and a sense of yeast along with spicy and grassy hops. The taste begins with a brief pulse of spicy and floral hops before a wave of sugary sweet malts and graininess roll them over. Into the finish there’s lingering spicy and floral hop bitterness. It tries to be too sweet but the pleasing level of hop bitterness keeps the sweetness somewhat in check.
Tried
from Draft
on 30 Mar 2010
at 20:14
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle courtesy of jcwattsrugger. 12oz bottle pours hazy deep copper with off white head. The aroma is sweet with caramel and malts as well as vague citrus hops and a sense of pine hops off in the background. The taste begins a bit tart with grapefruit and orange peel like sharp hop bitterness and only giving up a sliver of ground to malt sweetness from time to time. It mainly stays bitter with citrus hops right to the finish and getting a tad resiny too. Nice bitter IPA. I had it recently on tap too and it seemed to have less tart like acidity than the bottle.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Mar 2010
at 20:39
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
On tap at Sockeye. Pours out a dark brown with some red highs topped with a small tan head. Aroma WOW a nice roast malt with tons of sweet chocolate and light cherries. Taste was of Red Velvet cake. Lots of sweetness and cherries, but still not over the top sweet. I am very happy that Sockeye keeps mixing it up and doing fun things.
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Mar 2010
at 20:53
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
bottle thanks to John, pours light caramel, thin white head. Very nice aroma of cascade and orange marmalade and alcohol. Wow, lots of alcohol and sweet bready malts. A very interesting winter beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Mar 2010
at 13:22
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
RBWG@Ravenous-22oz bottle-pours a light tan head and copper color. Aroma is medium malt-roasty/peat, secondary herbal. Taste is medium malt-roasty/peat/caramel, secondary herbal/pine hops bite.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Mar 2010
at 21:25
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
On tap at Sockeye Boise. pours out a clear crisp amberish gold topped with a small off white cream head. Aroma was of a nice hop combo, floral, pine, and some citrus. Taste was plenty of grapefruit peel bitter hops along with a malt to help round it out.
Tried
from Draft
on 10 Mar 2010
at 20:23
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Growler - thanks BuckeyeBoy! Dark chocolate color with a thin brown head. Sweet aroma is mostly chocolate and roast alongside the underlying espresso. Very light hints of the barrel. Tastes a lot more chocolate oriented that I remember the original batch to be. Light roast and espresso. Seems obvious that JD barrels were used, Old No. 7 just can’t hide, and gets a little overbearing in the end. At first I compared this to a boilermaker via porter, but it mellows as the glass warms to room temp. A little thin in the body too. By the last third of the glass it has mellowed to it’s peak. With the original being one of my favorite Sockeye brews, this just doesn’t do it for me. I just hate it when the barrel aging becomes more focal than the brew itself. Again, thanks for the bottle Jeremy, I really enjoyed trying this.
Tried
from Growler
on 10 Mar 2010
at 12:06
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
12 oz bottle-pours a tan head and mahogany color. Aroma is medium malt, herbal. Taste is medium roast malt, pine/herbal hop bite.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Mar 2010
at 04:15
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
on tap-pours a light tan head that laces and black color. Aroma is dark malt-molasses/some coffee/roasty. Taste is dark malt-molasses/some coffee/roasty, secondary earthy hops with slight acidic.
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Mar 2010
at 04:09
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
on tap-pours a light tan head and copper/amber color. Aroma is mild medium malt-chocolate. Taste is mild medium malt-chocolate, earthy. Mild carbonation.
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Mar 2010
at 04:08