6.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Gold with a small white head that’s soon just hanging on at the rim. Hay, honey, chai spices. Low carbonation. Sweet with honey and hay, modest bitterness. Spices are gentle and the finish is dry with wafting honey and spices. Would have liked a little more carbonation, but otherwise pretty charming.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Apr 2013
at 05:47
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6
Bottle. Clear amber with an inch of white head that fades to a coat after a while. Aroma of speculaas with the spices cranked up a fair bit: biscuit, cloves, ginger, pepper, nutmeg. Thinnish. Moderate biscuity sweetness, lots of spices, particularly cloves. Dry, woodily spiced finish. Much too heavy on the spices for the body for me - really pretty wearing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Apr 2013
at 06:35
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
From a 330ml bottle on 20/4/2013. Pours a cloudy light amber with a very small head. Has a slightly odd basement aroma. The flavour features some muted sweet fruit and some light bready and nutty malt. Little bitterness presents, and the carbonation and body are medium. A bit a nothing beer really and quite disappointing. Red Duck have much better offerings.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Apr 2013
at 22:53
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7
Pours dark amber with almost no head.Nose shows honey, bready malt, spicy earthy hops and toffee.Sweet flavours of caramel, honey, bready malt, alcohol and spicy, earthy hops.Almost flat in terms of carbonation, needs more.
Tried
on 08 Apr 2013
at 19:32
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottle. Barely cloudy brownish red with a pink-tinged head that fades to a coat quickly. Aroma of cherries, orange peel, pepper, wheat. Could use more carbonation. Tastes of cherries and their stones, some citrus. Not overly sweet, little to no tanginess. Dryish at the end.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Mar 2013
at 03:58
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
(Bottle) Hazy brownish amber with no head. Subtle aroma: slightly formal with hintof caramel. Light to medium body with pleasant bright carbonation. Great, if rather straightforward, taste - base of darkish toffee overlaid with some rather nice HoS giving both balance early on in the taste and a nice long bitter finish. A very good beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Mar 2013
at 05:21
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Pours amber with a white head.Nose shows lemon, peach and apple hops along with soft biscuity malt.Flavours include soft herbal hops and some more biscuity and grain malt. A bit plain. Aggressive boring bitterness.Carbonation is a little too high.
Tried
on 26 Dec 2012
at 16:53
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pours black with brown highlights and a fading head.Nose shows complex roasted malt with coffee and oatmeal notes. Also some light spicy hops and nutty notes.Flavours also include hefty roasted and nutty malt along with some spicy and grapefruit-like hops.Could use more carbonation.Pretty solid American style porter.
Tried
from Can
on 09 Dec 2012
at 16:36
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle, 8C. Clear gold with a white head that lasts pretty well. . Aroma is earthy and fruity with musky longans and honeydew melon, some white pepper. Tropical fruit pretty much disappears in the taste with clean pale malt and firm spicy bitterness that lingers. Good warm weather stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Dec 2012
at 03:45
7.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle, 11C. Left lots of gunge in the bottle. Black with a coat of tan head that doesn’t last. Aroma of roasted malt, chocolate , coffee, star anise, roasted seaweed. A little whiff of unintegrated alcohol. Silky texture. Taste has bitter chocolate, the promised hint of chile (like dry-roasted Sri Lankan ones, not fruity at all) slightly astringent coffee. Dry finish is ashy and quite bitter, with astringent and salty notes. Not what I expected - it’s quite severe and there’s no cuddly sweetness to it, the depth is all underneath. Reminds me of some De Molen beers. Good characterful stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Dec 2012
at 05:07