7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. Bright clear copper, no head. Very low bead. Aroma of honey, vanilla, cognac, raisins, bush spices.Only slightly syrupy. Sweet and sour, with as much toffee and dried fruit as honey, some apple vinegar, drying oak. The alcohol begins to stick out a bit much after a 100mls or so. Powerful yet sophisticated - but just a little hot for me.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Aug 2011
at 05:57
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pours ruby-tinged black with a large, light tan head.Nose shows roasted malt, coffee and soft vanilla. All pretty faint.Lots more roasted malt as flavours, however the vanilla stays in the background. Some sweet caramel shows later before a mild roasty bitterness enters. Finish is slightly metallic.Carbonation is a little high, body somewhat thin.
Tried
on 05 Aug 2011
at 18:21
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Black with a tan head that fades to less than a coat. Brooding aroma with dark toffee, prunes, coffee, chocolate, raisins, alcohol. Some grass and tar. Oily. Taste is more reserved and less interesting than suggested by the aroma. Sweet with dark toffee and licorice. Rather modest roasted flavours makes it seem in Baltic porter territory to me. Bitterness is gentle, but chokes off the sweetness well - the finish is elegant. [3.4] Yep.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Aug 2011
at 07:31
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Pours black with a small, quickly fading head.Aromas include smokey, roasted malt and a faint elderberry-like character.The smoke transfers through as a flavour too, before a mix of sweet berries and acidity rolls through. A bit too far out there for me. Seems like it needs some extra malt or something to fill up the gap between smoke and tartness.
Tried
on 05 Aug 2011
at 04:40
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Pours dark brown, almost black, with a large, off-white head.Nose shows honey, grainy malt, and some soft roasted malt.Flavours have a little more impact in the way of roasted malt, with some coffee hints showing up, and more honey is present. Unfortunately there’s also a huge grainy, cardboard character and overt alcohol which ruins it.Carbonation is much too high.
Tried
on 01 Aug 2011
at 00:53
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. Dark red brown with a beige head that fades but laces nicely. Aroma of (tea-tree?) honey, raisins, burnt sugar, candied ginger, vanilla, angelica. Silky texture. Alcohol completely hidden. Taste has some dark malts but is mainly about fruity and herbal/ spicy honey. Modest sweetness, interesting herbal and slightly astringent finish. Good match for hard cheese - would pair very well with Pecorino Toscano. Unusual and good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jul 2011
at 06:42
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Chunk-laded black. Vigorous pour made a light tan head that fades quite quickly to the rim but doesn’t disappear. Aroma of apples, chocolate, smoke, singed grain, weedy herbs, mild funk. Aroma does little to prepare you for a pretty sour initial taste. It’s quite astringent and powerful, but doesn’t obscure the dark and grainy malts underneath. Some mushroom soy. Thinnish, but less so than 4.4% would suggest - quite mouthcoating. Bold but very drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jul 2011
at 05:18
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle. Dark brown with an inch of beige head that fades to a coat but laces quite well. Aroma of roasted malt, dark caramel, leafy yeast, vanilla, stewed prunes. The vanilla is brooding rather than wild in the nose. Very silky mouthfeel. Mouthfilling but not heavy, well disguised alcohol. Much more vanilla overtones in the taste, which is sweet with dark fruits, chocolate and caramel. Quite firm roasted flavours. All melds pretty nicely with the vanilla which is a lot more prominent in the mouth than in the nose. Some pepper at the end too. Helps that I’m keen on vanilla for this one, obviously.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jul 2011
at 06:24
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8
From a 330ml bottle on 7/5/2011. Pours a cloudy orange amber, with a modest head. Has a pleasant citrus pine aroma, with some toffee and floral notes.The flavours include grapefruit, orange, marmalade, caramel and toffee. This is nice and hoppy, like any good IPA should be, with the quite firm, lingering bitterness. A very good, well made beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 May 2011
at 23:24
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Pours cloudy dark amber with a small off-white head.Nose shows some floral and light fruity hops. Some clean malt underneath. Faint lemon shows later. Pretty light on.Even less hops in the way of flavours, although there is an aggressive bitterness. Hardly any malt shows. Big metallic character in the finish.Carbonation could be a bit higher. Body feels pretty watery.
Tried
on 30 Apr 2011
at 18:17