6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at the De Molen second Tuesday tasting. Poured a clear dark brown with a tan head and broken lace. The aroma is roasted malt. The flavour is of caramel, malt and medium bitter. The palate is yeasty with some slightly bitter alcohol burn. Well worth tracking down to taste, but I feel it might become a little sickly after a while.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Dec 2012
at 11:45
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Location: 750 ml bottle, corked, caged, and wrapped in paper, from The Hop, 10/11/12
Aroma: The nose has sweet malts, some bread, and hints of roast as well
Appearance: It pours a dark reddish color with a small beige head and light lace
Flavor: The taste is medium sweet, it is fairly malty, and has a light hop bitterness present
Palate: The body is medium, it has a soft carbonation, a little stickiness, and a lightly dry finish
Overall Impression: This beer is decent, there's nothing particularly wrong with it, but it is nothing to write home about. The flavors are fine, but nothing stands out. Drinkable. Didn't do much for me.
Aroma: The nose has sweet malts, some bread, and hints of roast as well
Appearance: It pours a dark reddish color with a small beige head and light lace
Flavor: The taste is medium sweet, it is fairly malty, and has a light hop bitterness present
Palate: The body is medium, it has a soft carbonation, a little stickiness, and a lightly dry finish
Overall Impression: This beer is decent, there's nothing particularly wrong with it, but it is nothing to write home about. The flavors are fine, but nothing stands out. Drinkable. Didn't do much for me.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Oct 2012
at 14:45
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pours deep gold into a tulip. White head with good retention crackles and recedes to coat surface. Sweet oak and lavender aromas. Sweet lavender front to back with a sweet oak finish. Very sweet.
Tried
on 17 Sep 2012
at 15:38
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle, 75cl corked. A finger-thick, beige head forms over a dark reddish tinted brown body. It’s malty and toffee-ish on the nose, with coffee and some resiny, lemon peel-like hops joining in. Really pleasant flavor, some malty, roasted notes as a foundation for the hops, which gives bitterness and resiny flavors. Full body, quite dry on the palate. The finish has toffee and bitterness, the latter most evident. A beer that didn’t impress at first, but after a few sips, I really enjoyed it. Would prefer an even higher focus on the hops though. 111229
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Sep 2012
at 05:38
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours deep mahogany into a Sam glass. Mocha conglomerate head with good retention recedes leaving spot lacing. Chocolate and espresso aromas. Dark chocolate and caramel upfront turning to earthy, bitter espresso in the lasting finish.
Tried
on 09 Aug 2012
at 14:51
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
clear dark brown, smooth offwhite to beige head. very nice hoppy, flowery hoppy, and sweet roasted malty aroma. flavor is sweet roasted malts, a good dose of balancing hops that are mostly pine and grapefruit but also flovery. The total experience is sweet malty , lots of hops. It is quite sweet for a black IPA.
Tried
on 11 Jul 2012
at 18:20
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Corked bottle, courtesy of Jens (Ungstrup)
Dark brown color, almost black. Fizzy aroma, some yeast, and roasted malt. Good body, and good chocolate flavor; strong bitterness, resiny, tickling the tongue; coffeish. For my liking, it’s leaning too much on one side.
Dark brown color, almost black. Fizzy aroma, some yeast, and roasted malt. Good body, and good chocolate flavor; strong bitterness, resiny, tickling the tongue; coffeish. For my liking, it’s leaning too much on one side.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jul 2012
at 01:07
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle, 13C. Clear dark amber with a beige head. Aroma of stewed fruits, sherry, oranges, leather, toffee - quite old ale-ish with a dash of doppelbock. Sweet with balancing bitterness. Medium-bodied, just slightly syrupy. Very nice modest carbonation. As much dried fruit as caramel, definite aged notes - a touch of sourness as well as oxidation. Some sweetshop/ medicinal spices at the end. After a while the sweetness starts to defeat the finish. Going somewhere unusual for a US beer and pretty much succeeding. Interesting beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Jun 2012
at 07:39
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
750ml bottle. Darkest brown with small firm frothy lacing tan head. Dark malty aroma with roasty notes, a touch of chocolate and a fine hoppy overtone. Oily palate with relatively heavy dark malty, roasty and milk chocolate notes that would do well for an Imperial Stout; very late hop notes can’t change its overall character - more Imperial Stout than Black IPA for me. Maybe some hop aroma was lost while "cellaring" this for a while [bottled Jun 28 2011].
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jun 2012
at 12:27
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottled@Black Heart (rockpub around the corner from Brewdog Camden). After ordering all the big abv bottles at Brewdog Camden, it was probably the perfect thing to go and order a big bottle of beer in this cosy pub... Reddish brown colour with a small off-white head. Aroma is leathery, sour wooden, with some sweet malts and mild earthy notes. Flavour is rather similar in good balance. My notes have a few more sentences added by the end of the bottle, but the coding is too hard for me to interpret...
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 May 2012
at 03:18