6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle: Amber, hazy, lots of floaties visible, smaller fluff-white head; molasses, malt and dried fruits in the shy nose; solid sweetish-sourish flavour, full bodied; alcohol burn in the port-like and bitter finish. Not that good.........
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Nov 2009
at 22:44
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
2001 vintage. An anemic brown ale with almost no head. In aroma, oxidized malt with a bit of soy sauce, dark fruits, not bad. In mouth, a rather lifeless and oxidized ale with notes of madera, licorice, and light molasses, very thin and tired. Tasted Nov. 5 2009 with GRM and Mike H.
Tried
on 07 Nov 2009
at 20:48
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottled@Pikkulintu
Deep red-ruby color, no head. Strawberry, cut grass, smokey wood, fruit sugar in the nose - what a mix. Liquerish palate. Sweet berries, strong wine (Finnish Gambina), some sourness, lots of Madeira wine and Moscatel. Excellent dessert wine ... err .. beer I mean. Aged very well, doesn’t feel like 12% anymore.
Deep red-ruby color, no head. Strawberry, cut grass, smokey wood, fruit sugar in the nose - what a mix. Liquerish palate. Sweet berries, strong wine (Finnish Gambina), some sourness, lots of Madeira wine and Moscatel. Excellent dessert wine ... err .. beer I mean. Aged very well, doesn’t feel like 12% anymore.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Oct 2009
at 11:06
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle. Rocky white fair mostly deminishing head. Red amber colour. Moderate malty andhoppy oxidated aroma. Light sweetband moderate bitter flavor. Strong oxidated niotes. Average moderate bitter finish. Creamy almost syruply palate.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Sep 2009
at 07:37
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
(Bottle at Pikkulintu, Helsinki, on 2009-09-24) Deep red colour and llightly hazy. No head. Malts, tiny sweetness and tawny port wine in aroma. Dry palate with very low carbonation. Vinousness, malts, lightly roastedness, raisin and light bitterness in taste. Malty and vineous aftertaste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Sep 2009
at 03:19
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle 27,5 cl. Slightly hazy amber golden with a tiny, rough, off-white head. Aroma of fruit and caramel with a tart edge. Medium body, completely flat, notes of white wine and a whiff of Brett and perhaps a little wood. Warming alcohol in the finish, slightly leathery but no bitterness as such. Very interesting - and classic Gales. 120709
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Sep 2009
at 15:38
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Courtesy of madmitch76. Pours slightly hazy copper with gold edges and thin tan head. The aroma is full with prunes, cherries, red apples, caramel candy and a thin layer of earthiness. Smells very much like yum. The taste has cherry and sherry notes. Toward midway it also picks up caramel and earthiness. It ends sweet and smooth. It tastes like this beer is only getting better.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Jul 2009
at 21:31
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
27.5 cL bottle bought at Hollingshead, CA. Pours hazy dark orange with a small white head. Aroma is solid phenolic and light acetone aroma. Dry wooden and phenolic flavoured. Acidic to citric dry flavoured finish. Very old and above the prime I assume.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Jul 2009
at 04:07
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
27.5cl corked bottle from Plan-B, cph. bottled 2005. cloudy brown, very small big bubbly head. vinous aroma, vanilla, wood, dark fruits, raisins, faint orange, sweet malts. flavor is ever slightly vineous, dark fruits, warming alc. no carbonation. 6-2-7-2-13 27.5cl corked bottle, bottled 2001 , gift from Ungstrup (thanks a bunch man..) clear brown, smooth small beige to light brown head. 3 Aroma is dominated by malts and caramel. No obvious sign of oxidation, aroma is fine. Some dusty hops though. 6. Flavor is quite complex, malty, faint dark fruits, faint raisins, All the flavors are quite well mixed up, good sipper. old beer, great flavor, has aged very respectfully. 6 pal 3, ov 15
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jun 2009
at 18:03
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
275ml bottle 16Mar06–pours a dissipating foam/bubbly off white head and cloudy amber color. Aroma is fruit-orange, medium malt-caramel, herbal hops. Then prune/pineapple. Taste is medium malt-caramel, alcohol, citrus, herbal/pine-ish hops, prune. A lot going on, although not my taste. Nose can be put under an old ale, taste under ESA (possibly from conditioning for 3+ years). Thanks to Joe-jwc215 for bring this back from his trip across the pond.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 May 2009
at 13:12