6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Red/brown body with a small beige head. Aroma is sweet malt, alcohol and a bit roasted coffee. Flavor is very sweet malt, liquorices, alcohol, coffee, some kind of sour bitterness. Nice, but I think Iโm not completely convinced.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Feb 2008
at 13:27
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Hazy dark amber with floaties and a tiny short lasting head. Sweet vinious aroma with hops, ripe fruits and caramel. Sweet flavor with notes of alcohol, caramel, oxidation.
Tried
on 24 Feb 2008
at 15:53
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
[2002 vintage, session @ yespr] Hazy dark amber with tiny head. Sweet vinious aroma with prunes, plums, dates and port notes. Sweet flavor with overripe fruits, port, madeira and alcohol notes. Very complex and the agening has done it well. Lovely.
Tried
on 24 Feb 2008
at 14:07
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
9.3 fl oz bottle, thanks to BelJohansen. Pours hazy orange with a lacing off-whit head. Thick winerous aroma. Almost woody aroma to flavour. Flavour is dry malty with a very subdued woody note. Nice lingering finish. Solid and overripe flavour with a nice malt base. Nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Feb 2008
at 17:30
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottled. A hazy amber beer with small particles of sediment floating around under a thin orange head. The aroma is sweet malty with strong notes of fruit as well as light notes of wood and oxidation - due to 2ยฝ years of storing. The flavor is very sweet and very fruity combined with medium notes of prunes, and again a slight oxidized note and notes of alcohol, which is felt on the tongue. Thanks BelJohansen for sharing this.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Feb 2008
at 13:19
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
330ml Bottle (2002 Vintage) from Pikkulintu, Helsinki-. Dark brown/copper coloured which is slightly hazy. Malty, grainy aroma with a bit of sweetness. The taste is malty and sweet. Like FatPhil says, I feel this is little bit past its best but still stands up fairly well.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jan 2008
at 04:42
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
(Bottle 27,5 cl) Courtesy of kramer17801. Slightly hazy, amber golden with a small, off-white head. Intense aroma of overripe fruit and sherry. Medium body with absolutely no carbonation. Fruity, oxidized sherry flavours with a vague, underlying tartness. The hops are almost missing in the finish. Quite complex and interesting. 120108
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jan 2008
at 10:44
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottled - sampled January 2008. A hazy amber beer with a thin lazing beige head. The aroma is metalic and oxidixed combined with a slightly acidic bret note - I donโt think it is unpurpose, but itโs not bad. The flavor is sweet and oxydixed in a nice way and again with a note of bret.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Jan 2008
at 18:13
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
[1997 vintage - bottle @ Papsoe] Amber with tiny head. Viniuos aroma with port and bourbon notes. Vinous complex flavor with dominant alcohol note, prunes and bourbon.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Jan 2008
at 08:34
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
27.5 cL bottle. Pours slight hazy orange with fully diminished white head. Dark and dry raisin like aroma. Flavour is acidic lending itself into a slight citric note. Oldish dark fruity malt. Dark flavours. Ends with a dry almost woody note and a dry raisin note. Great aroma, strange flavour and palate, typical Gales which I find it hard to adjust to.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Jan 2008
at 05:13