8.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

750mL bottle at Tilquin, pours a clear bright golden orange with a medium white head. Aroma is full of fragrant gin barrels, moderate barnyard funk, and some leather. Flavour is wonderfully complex, with plenty of wild yeast, intense gin barrels, barnyard funk, and huge oak. Wonderful gin barrel character that accentuates the beautiful buggy funk. This is fantastic.

8.3

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8.5

750mL bottle at Tilquin. Pours clear gold with a white head. Gin barrels, wild yeast, and some funk on the nose. Flavour has great complexity, gin botanicals, dry old wood. This is excellent.

7.9

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Hazy, dullish peachy colour. Soft malt, but on the palate it has a juicy tartness. Light stone fruit. Nice sweetness on the finish. Good stuff.

7.8

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8

750ml (thx, Matt!) @ SF
Aroma: funky, some fruity notes, balanced.
Taste: very woody, funky, a bit bitter, a lot of concentrated hay and yellow grapefruit.
Overall: decent.

6.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

750mL bottle, pours a hazy bright orange with a small white head. Nose has plenty of petroleum, light funk, citrus, and oak. Flavour has some phenolic notes, petroleum, bitter citrus, and a touch of oak. There’s definitely some phenolic notes here that shouldn’t be, but it’s a good blend regardless. Flawed but good.

7.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

9000th entered rating (have a small backlog so not technically my actual #9000). Poured from 750mL bottle. Hazy gold with small white head. Gentle oak, fairly tart funk, pithy grapefruit rind, quite a dry astringent finish.

7.5

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

750mL bottle. Pours murky blonde with a white head. Aroma has a lot of old wood, oak; nice rustic yeast character. Flavour has a lot of wood, very rustic; yeast does have a slightly phenolic character. The phenols are becoming a bit more aggressive and unpleasant as it comes to temperature. Very good, but the phenols muck it up.

6

Sour tart fruity with prominent ginger, herbal and floral accents, ginger soaked wood, medium body and higher acidity, tart ginger infused finish.

7

Tap@MBCC May 2017, Copenhagen - pours fuzzy golden yellow with a white head. Sour fruity, medium acidic, resonating orange nectarine fruity, light funky and yeasty, floral accents, medium body, tart fruity finish.

8

Tap@MBCC May 2017, Copenhagen - pours purple with a pink ringed head. Sour fruity assault of rich raspberries and cherries, medium to high acidic, berry fruits, medium body, wooden oak accents, sharp tart fruity close.