7.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Tap at Dead Bird. Pretty enjoyable Barleywine. Pleasant ABV. Nice balance, bitterness. Has some UK tendencies, but could be called US style as well. Good.
Tried
on 21 Feb 2026
at 23:30
6.9/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
9% on tap in 2026. Rich, heavy specialty malts, pleasant bitterness. Perhaps more of an American Strong Ale than a Black IPA at times. A little amateurish but bold malt tone.
Tried
on 21 Feb 2026
at 23:02
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Sample at GTMW 2023, 8/12/23. Hazy orange, thin white head, average retention. Aroma of mango, pineapple, tropical fruit. Taste is tropical fruit, mango, orange, pale malt. Juicy low bitterness. This doesn't seem like a Vienna. Did they pour me the wrong beer?
Tried
on 28 Aug 2023
at 03:49
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
On tap at Dead Bird. Pleasant bready tones. Relatively true to style, filtered, easy medium body. Not quite nailing aroma or hop tone, but the bready malt tone makes it work. OK.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 May 2021
at 22:14
6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
On tap at Dead Bird. Rindy orange and grapefruit tone. Not really true to style for a new england but a reasonable enough ipa/apa. Earthy malt undertones. Decent enough modern apa.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 May 2021
at 22:02
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Sampled from the tap at GTMW 2017. Pours a clear gold with an orange hue and a white head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has a good amount of pine and grass hops with sweet grains and mango supporting. Flavor has pine hops up front with sweet grains, grass and mango in the finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 30 Sep 2017
at 09:03
7/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Keg at Hopcat Madison. I wonder if the cherries are intentional. Black, large creamy tan head, good retention. Aroma of cherries, roasted malt, chocolate. Taste is roast, vanilla, chocolate, cherries. Medium bodied. Nice.
Tried
on 19 Jun 2017
at 17:24
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Kind of a funky weird beard beer. I like it but the source cherry almost makes it seem as if the beer is bad.
Tried
on 01 Jun 2016
at 22:16