Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottled. Very dark brown. Cocoa aroma. Roasty with rounded mouthfeel and fairly light bodied. Dominated by buttery chocolate flavour. Lightly salty finish with low bitterness.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Sparkling amber,small thin beige head. Light malt nose.A slightly off foretaste,malty mid,creamy malt finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
2006: Dark golden-brown colour. Chocolatey, slightly brown sugary aroma. Fairly light profile, with clean toasty, dusty, chocolatey malt notes. Simple, like an easy-drinking dunkel with a bit more booze. Scores entirely unchanged over last year.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Sparkling ebony,large lasting tan head.Rich malt nose. Malt start,medium lasting hop finish.Mild alcohol presence. Nice balance
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Orange-amber beer; yellowish tinted, creamy head. Bit soupy initial nose, even ureum, then giving in to a superb fine-flowery hopsnose. Aroma’s as from the best English hops, finally some cookie malts. Very bitter, near-metallic and outspoken grapefruit hopflavours, even some walnut peel. Again very little malt detectable, both in taste and MF. Better than the Nelson IPA - but still, there’s an empty feel no hops can fill in. Needs malts for that, and this isn’t some shy English bitter at 4% neither. Quite OK IPA, however, the hops are great. Big thanks, Mike.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5
Clear. Peachy colour. Lots of bubbles, but not much head. The aroma is a clash of pale malt, grassy hops and light raspberry. Stacks of fizziness push a tart, wheaty body with light raspberry notes across the palate. There is some integration between the beer and fruit owing to the acidity but ultimately neither makes a bold statement. If the fruit-beer interplay in a great fruit beer is a cruiserweight championship bout, this is a drunken slapfight between Urkel and Stephen Hawking.
Oakes (33493) reviewed Black Toque from Phillips Brewing and Malting Co. 20 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Chestnut brown colour. Aroma is a strange mix of lemon, chocolate and toast with a little lit match sulphur getting in the way. The flavour is of bitter chocolate, wood, citrus and caramel. I like the bitter brown ale concept. And this beer has really improved in recent months, too.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Orange ale with a white head. Pungeant resinous hops with orange notes and nice hops and malt balance. Intense hops in mouth and alcohol in mouth. Sustained bitterness. Rich hoppy beer from BC. Thanks JM. Jan. 2005.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Amber with thick,lasting rocky beige head.Decent citrus hop nose. Big hop flavor (more bitter than citrus) with a faintly nutty malt hint, strong lasting hop finish