Subsidiaries
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
My bottle claims 7.2 % ABV Nearly black beer; huge dense, dirty brown head. Chocolate, tree bark, coffee and lots of roasted malts. Nice, but the nose looses out fast, leaving very little. Initially rather dry stout taste, hinting at sour, but then reverting to a sweeter, dull-grainy flavour, getting very much liquorice-like in character. Medium to well bodied, some slickness. At first, it’s a rather OK stout, just a bit low key for 7.2 %. But it ends in a rather dull-sweet taste. Pity, it could have been more interesting - a relief for the Heineken murdered Van Vollenhoven’s Stout?
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Mar 2005
at 16:42
3.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
(33 cl can, bought in Greece). Ingredients are listed as water, malts, hops and maize (corn). Golden colour, low to none head. Sweetish maize aroma. Industrial maize lager flavour.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Oct 2004
at 18:53
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Canned(330ml). -once again dutch beer in greece, just another average lager, light golden coloured with minimal head, hoppy and bready aroma, dry finish
Tried
from Can
on 09 Sep 2004
at 08:04
3.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Canned(500ml). -corny aroma, skunky and grainy taste, metalic finish, below average lager
Tried
from Can
on 07 Sep 2004
at 07:51
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Clear dark brown color, medium lasting brown head. Aroma is roasted malts, chocolat, bread, rye, bit weak though. Weak watery taste, but with quite ordinary stout features. Watery palate. Certainly not bad.
Tried
on 12 Mar 2004
at 10:30
4.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Blond color. Light hop aroma. Light malt and hop; quite strong bitterness. A common lager.
Tried
on 23 Feb 2004
at 04:58
4.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 5
Clear light yellow color, short dying head. Weak hoppy aroma, more grainy. Watery taste and palate.
Tried
on 05 Oct 2003
at 07:48
2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 2
Flavor 1
Texture 2
Overall 2
Import Bottle. Ummm… yeah. A whole lotta nuttin' in a green bottle. Pale, pale color with taste to match. No noticable malt taste, just a little gassy. Somewhere there's a hint of hoppiness, but not enough to qualify as a flavor. Had this at a picnic which also had a keg of Miller Lite, and if I hadn't brought some homebrew to share, would've preferred the Miller Lite. Odd that a brewery whose label claims it's been around since 1653 has this as its only offerring.So this becomes my baseline “1 out of 5” beer: I wasn't especially offended, but there was just nothing good to it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Sep 2003
at 05:52
2.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 2
Flavor 2
Texture 2
Overall 2
Light golden in colour, thick fluffy white head. Metallic macrobrew smell with no hops or malt dominant. Almost no taste, but what you do get is that horrible watery macrobrew taste. No hops, no malt and a bit of skunkyness....GREAT! Nothing palatable, just fades away to nothing. Basically a long description of why you shouldn't buy this beer. But if you want to: I bought this 16 ounce can at Trader Joe's in Falls Church, Virginia and split it with good friend JonR888710.
Tried
from Can
on 04 Aug 2003
at 23:15
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Canned(500ml). -nice beer with pleasant hoppy and herbal aroma, crispy finish, bitter aftertaste
Tried
from Can
on 08 Apr 2003
at 06:17