4.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottle at GBBF 2007. Very deep ruby with lasting beige head. Buttery aroma, toffee. Not sure I like it. Quite a bit of ashtray. OK in mouth. Too toffeeish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Aug 2007
at 11:09
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle at GBBF 2007. Very attractive chestnut colour, thin beige head. Definitely smoky, but a bit of candy sugar and thin. Over carbonated. Bit disappointing. Good smoke though. Oily.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Aug 2007
at 11:23
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle, poured pale amber with small, fast disappearing white head. Not much aroma, what there is is hop and citrus. flavour of malt and citus with bland finish. Not much happening here.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Aug 2007
at 20:36
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bright golden-brown. Rich cold-smoke...deep earthy caramelly malts as well. The body is somewhat slick and caramelly, with a smokey signature. I love the smoke but the underlying lager lacks that certain something...I don’t like the caramel and it doesn’t work well with the smoke.
Tried
on 22 Jul 2007
at 18:27
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
This is a very good beer. The initial aroma is powerful and has lots of wheat and banana, as well as some sugar. Flavor is moderatel sweet. It has banana, light citrus, cloves and some alcohol. Opaque, cloudy brown like muddy water. Warming alcohol.
Tried
on 20 Jul 2007
at 16:59
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Some type of fusion style between Belgian ale and Kolsch. It has Belgian yeast in the aroma, but flavor is clearly of a German lager. Dark gold color and sweet malt flavor. Smooth, full mouthfeel.
Tried
on 02 Jul 2007
at 21:18
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Amber color. Some malt aroma. Decent body structure, light malt flavor, stronger caramel; very light herbal touch; croddover between a Belgian Ale and an Amber Ale (about the yest, which is quite perfumy). Good bitterness level (rare in Brazil). Not bad.
Tried
on 17 Jun 2007
at 18:54
3.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Golden color, poor head. Almost no aroma and poor flavor, with a light honeyish taste typical of lagers after the expiry date, which is not the case; low bitterness as usual in Brazil. Poor.
Tried
on 17 Jun 2007
at 18:53
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle (trade with shigadeyo). Initial aroma was like bologna - as head slowly faded an over-ripe banana and orange aroma came out. Cloudy dark brown-orange with giant head. Iniitial flavor was of sweet orange/banana and wheat malt with a bit of bite to the tongue - lasts throughout swallowing with a moderate astringent/alcohol burn to finish. Really a pretty nice beer that is accurate to the style.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jun 2007
at 22:14
8.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Very unique and very good. This beer would fit well in to several styles, and is very much like a barleywine. Malty aroma. Very carbonated, which I expected from the description. Flavor has champagne yeast, sugar, surprisingly brown sugar, and light alcohol flavor but a warming alcohol palate. Probably not worth the $25, but unique and very good anyway.
Tried
on 09 Jun 2007
at 18:06