7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Mmm. Feels like a marzen as the base beer. Deep ruddy coppy color, moderate head. Big initial smoke aroma with layers of heavy melanoidiny malts beneath. Notes of dark heavy breads and orange cake. Flavor quite similar, slick with a caramelized heavy sweetness and a smoky bite throughout. Lingering sweetness is almost cloying but not quite. Very well done!
Tried
on 13 Dec 2007
at 12:05
4.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 3.5
Couresy of Degarth. Pours a hazy copper with weak white head. The aroma is grainy muted wheat mixed with mild fruity esters that become grain alcohol. I get a faint caramel note hiding beneath somewhere. The taste has an initial bite due to the carbonation that leans towards figs and dates and obscure off flavored blandness(?). The wheat note is faint. The flavors don’t really come together.
Tried
on 01 Dec 2007
at 22:08
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Courtesy of Degarth. Pours deep clear gold with thin white head. The aroma is sweet sweet grain malts with an added sweetness of honey. The taste is much like the nose with up front sugar malt sweetness and grain. Near midway the honey comes up pretty strong. I also get a fruitiness toward the finish. Into the aftertaste I can pick up a mild hop spice tartness. The label listed the following: “water, malts and hops.” Nothing else. Do these three make a beer?
Tried
from Can
on 01 Dec 2007
at 22:08
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Pours deep mahogany into a shaker. Off-white head with good retention. Dark caramel malt from front to back. Lasting chocolate malt finish.
Tried
on 06 Nov 2007
at 18:20
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Pours a clear golden color with a small white head. Malty hoppy aroma. Sweet malty hoppy bitter flavor with some grassy hints. Long malty bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Nov 2007
at 16:11
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
35.5 cL bottle@chris_o’s place, thanks Chris. Pours golden yellow, clear, with a lacing white head. Sweet malty, slight spiced note. Full bodied mouthfeel. Flavour is thick sweet malty. Finish is slight warming and persisting sweet malty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Oct 2007
at 16:59
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cloudy, copper red color. Hundreds of tiny bubbles lead to a medium sized creamy beige head. Sweet roasted malt aroma with hints of caramel, honey and banana. Smooth, buttery caramel malt flavor upfront. Wheat malt aftertaste with a light dryish hop finish. Nicely done. Very Bavarian-like.
Tried
on 23 Sep 2007
at 13:04
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle drunk at Chris_o’s HogTownHarry meet up. Golden beer with floaters in suspension. Thick white head. Saisony aroma. NIce nose. Bit sickly cos of alcohol. No burn on aroma. I can quite easily say this is the best Brazilian beer I’ve had. Cool. Bit sweet and sickly on end.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Sep 2007
at 03:51
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bright amber with a large but weak head. Yeast, peachy, footy nose is actually not dissimiliar to Saison Dupont. Sweetish and a bit plasticy. Body is really heavy. Strong alcohol signature. Complex, oddball brew with somewhat stodgy malts, funky footy yeast notes and quite a bit of alcohol. Like someone took a mediocre underfermented new world tripel and sexed it up by finishing with champagne yeast.
Tried
on 15 Sep 2007
at 18:47
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
From iowaherkeye, now why the heck is this not distributed in my area and by my area I mean the whole Mid-Atlantic and Northeast? I mean we get the other beers from this brewery (including the overpriced Lust) but not this, f’in eh. Luckily I received it in a trade, thanks Joey. Anyway...Beautiful radiant amber body with orange tints, which allows for a medium clarity. Small head but a sticky lacing. Aroma is sweet smokiness that counterbalanced by a clean lagered maltiness. There is also a heft to the aroma. Taste is again a hefty clean lager with some un-sweet fruits, which are backed up by smoke. Average carbonation and low bitterness. 12oz bottle, Hobgoblin tulip glass.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Sep 2007
at 11:07