6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Keg at Sheffield Tap; clear golden amber pour with a frothy white head, light yeast and citrus aroma, taste has dirty malts along with some zesty citrus.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Sep 2014
at 12:43
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Sample from 33 cl. bottle. Hazy, amber-golden colour with a large, off-white head. Fruity aroma with citrus, peach, caramel malts and slight toast. Taste is bitter. Medium body with a creamy texture and a soft carbonation. Finishes dry and bitter with grasses and fruits. Nice APA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Sep 2014
at 12:52
5.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottled. A black beer with a huge dark brown head. The aroma has notes of rye, roasted malt, and hints of brettanomyces. The flavor is sweet with an acidic edge and notes of rye, bread, roasted malt, and chocolate, leading to a dry and slightly tart finish. Odd or off?
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Sep 2014
at 12:00
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5
Tap at CBC 2014. Beer in the glass golden-yellow, huge head. Mild fruity aroma. Starts bitter and dry, fruity like grapefruit. Finish less fruity, dry-malty, bitter-sourish. Not my favourite.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Sep 2014
at 05:39
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 7
Small cream to beige/brown head, fast disappeared over black beer with brownish edges. Stoutish, chocolate and alcoholnotes. Wood, tannines, Sachertorte. And a good dash or rum. Strangely enough, also a whiff of cola. Lactic, chocolate, roasted to brunt - but as with the other KB beers sampled, there’s a deficit in MF, which feels as coffee cream with lots of lightly sparkling water. Beer feels ’tired’ too, somehow. I link the creaminess to the oatmeal. The palate isn’t bad (at all), but just greatly insufficient for such a huge stout. I don’t get it. Surely Menno could show them some tricks?
Tried
on 16 Sep 2014
at 11:40
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Retried 10/18 Shortlived cream head over veiled red-amber beer. Syrupy, waffles syrup, /fusels’ nose, giving a strong liqueurish impression. Overripe fruit, banana. Serious bitterness, but rather short-lived. Very dry, even chalky impression. Dried grapes with near all the sugars taken out, other dried fruit. Warming up, the alcohol gives more sweetness, and the malts come out stronger, lending more balance. Not really thick, but well bodied, oily-slick. Well, yeah. Quite OK.
Tried
on 15 Sep 2014
at 13:47
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle from Ales By Mail [160814]
Pitch black, tan head, dissipates
Aroma of very dark fruits, dark malts, soft roast, dab of alcohol
Taste of soft dark malts, liquorice, spicy notes, some alcohol, slight aniseed
Palate - soft carb, medium body, fairly smooth. Finish of warming alcohol, soft sweet palate, quite boozy
Overall - Competent impy, but not amazing
Pitch black, tan head, dissipates
Aroma of very dark fruits, dark malts, soft roast, dab of alcohol
Taste of soft dark malts, liquorice, spicy notes, some alcohol, slight aniseed
Palate - soft carb, medium body, fairly smooth. Finish of warming alcohol, soft sweet palate, quite boozy
Overall - Competent impy, but not amazing
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Sep 2014
at 12:21
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6
Label claims 4.9% ABV, as well as 46IBU Huge & dense broken white to cream head, irregular, over (cold)hazed amber beer. Fruity, sweetish nose with pineapple, passion fruit, rainwater. Thick head hampers the perception. Bitter, if nowhere exaggerated. Less fruity than the nose, dry, tad resiny, virtually nothing else. Very demure - too shy. Again a rather watery MF, the aftertaste becoming hopoils somehow dissolved in water. A tad too restrained, definitely. APA would be more bold in its country of origin.
Tried
on 14 Sep 2014
at 11:52
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle@Papsoes - pours amber with good white head and lacing. Aroma nd taste is fruity and malty, with some caramel, light toffee, great citrus hoppy notes on the palate, solid bitter finish. Very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Sep 2014
at 07:50
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle 33 cl. Pours a clear, deep golden with an off-white head. Lovely fresh, citrusy hops in the nose. Light body, a little heavily carbonated with a slight sweetness. But it’s really all about the hops, fresh, crispy aroma hops. Not very bitter though. Extremely sessionable. 130914
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Sep 2014
at 07:03