Subsidiaries
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle thanks to Tim. Pours cloudy golden apricot. Nose of grape skin, apricot seed, sweet and tart fruits, and musky basement aromas. Taste is apple core, mildly sweet apricot and grape skin followed by tart fermented kiwi and yeast. Very nice well balanced brew.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jan 2011
at 16:13
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Tasted at the big “SeaBass has got to go” tasting courtesy of thecheeseman. I like the idea of drinking barrel aged death. Cool name. It pours deep murky mahogany with weak off white head. It smells of toffee, a little bit of used oak barrel as well as sweet kind of bourbony fudge brownie. The taste is tart and kind of red wine like as well as dark roasty and super thin in body.
Tried
on 23 Jan 2011
at 19:32
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tasted at the big “SeaBass has got to go” tasting courtesy of askofficerfriendly. Pours deep mahogany with thin mocha like head. The aroma is caramel, prunes, black strap molasses, some booze and chocolate. The taste is black strap molasses, a little bit of prune and super rich dark cherries. To midway malts move forward creating additional notes of chocolate and fudge. Into the finish it seems to be sort of rich yet thin molasses nectar mixing with dark roasted malts, yum.
Tried
on 23 Jan 2011
at 19:31
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle @ Seabass going away party, Jan15th ’11. Courtesy of Cheeseman. Brune foncée, beige. Malt et tonneau, qcq notes de phénolique et acétone? amertume du houblon, peut être une infection venant du tonneau. Ressent aussi un peu de malt fumé et le côté bourbon reste présent quoique un peu en retrait. Je pense aussi y goûter un peu de soja, pas facile à dire si cette bouteille est infectée ou si c’est juste normal.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Jan 2011
at 15:06
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle @ Seabass going away party, Jan15th ’11. Courtesy of askofficerfriendly. Brune foncée, pas de mousse. Chocolaté et malte, avec fine couche de caramel. On peut y détecter un léger nez et palais de malt fumé qui est suivi par du café.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Jan 2011
at 11:32
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
On tap at Freetail Brewpub SA(9Jan11)pours dark brown with a medium light tan head. Aroma is chile skins, smoked malt, roast, and pepper. Flavor is rich toasted and smoke malt body with a nice dose of spice and pepper finishing with the smoke. The smoke and pepper are so nice together, this was a standout of the trip to Freetail for me.
Tried
from Draft
on 16 Jan 2011
at 16:18
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
On tap at Freetail Brewpub SA(9Jan11)pours light murky brown with a thin tan head. Aroma is all over the place. Oranges, fig, prune, dark fruity yeast, brown sugar. Flavor is rich brown sugar and caramel with honeysuckle and a spicy finish. Nice.
Tried
from Draft
on 16 Jan 2011
at 16:13
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
On tap at Freetail Brewpub SA(9Jan11)pours black with a medium light tan head. Aroma is black patent, biscuit and lots of pine and grassy hops. Flavor is rich malt, pale and roast with rich resinous pine bitterness in the finish. Great black IPA
Tried
from Draft
on 16 Jan 2011
at 16:10
6.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
On tap at Freetail Brewpub SA(9Jan11)pours light brown with a medium tan head. Aroma is strong on spicy Belgian yeast esters and candied sugar. Flavor is sticky caramel and spicy yeast. I like it.
Tried
from Draft
on 16 Jan 2011
at 15:01
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
FIRST TO RATE! On tap at Freetail Brewpub SA(9Jan11)this was listed as Solera Fin, I was told wine barrels by the bartender. After reading the Solera reviews and seeing people referring to that beer as Solera IV i decided to add this, seems I had a different version, perhaps different barrels? Poured dark orange almost red with a medium off white head. Aroma is apple and dry white wine. Flavor is sour apple skins and toast. Some moldy wood and wine in the finish. This was semi-sweet but very dry in the finish. Reminded me of a Flemish red.
Tried
from Draft
on 16 Jan 2011
at 14:35