6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Can. Dark brown colour with a beige head. Aroma is chocolate, hop, caramel. Flavour is coffee, hop, roasted, caramel, chocolate. OK beer, but nothing more.
Tried
from Can
on 18 Apr 2008
at 12:37
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
16oz can-pours an off white head and hazy amber color. Aroma is medium malt, then lots of sweet lemon/pine hops. Great out of the standard style (continental hops out, northwest in!) American interpretation. Taste is medium malt-caramel, then lots of sweet lemon/pine hops-slightly bitter, more aromatic. OK effervescence/soft carbonation. Nice. Thanks to Wasatch(BA).
Tried
from Can
on 13 Apr 2008
at 20:04
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Can, thx to akevitt. I had some doubts how to rate this one, as it was surely infected or way past BB-date. No date on the can though. I ended up trying to ignore the sourish aromas and flavors and I hope I will get a new chance some day. It poured a clear, dark brown with a beige to tan head. The aroma had chocolate, lots of fruity hops, a little smoked hint and some sourness. Chocolate, some sourness, malt and caramel in the flavor, leading to a quite bitter finish with some chocolate. Full body. Even though it was gone bad in a way, it was still a good beer, but I think a can in this condition would have been way too much to finish on my own. (080301)
Tried
from Can
on 06 Apr 2008
at 14:14
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Thick hazy amber - ugly body with a rich "we used a lot of hops" head. Big hop nose - orangey, wood with an earthy, breadcrusty background. Fat body is resiny with hops, in a pleasingly moderate bitterness matched by caramelized sugars that are only slightly sticky. An assault of hops - perhaps lacking the sense of style you see in the best PNW examples but this is nonetheless well-structured.
Tried
on 03 Apr 2008
at 08:36
5.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bright reddish-brown with a bubbly head. The aroma is chocolatey, lightly phenolic. The body is thin and the palate muddled and disjointed with underdeveloped cocoa powder notes, nut shells and a distinct lack of residual sugars.
Tried
on 22 Mar 2008
at 17:24
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can from trade with akevitt. Thanks Jason. It poured an almost clear orange golden body and a white head. That’s quite normal for an oktoberfest. What surprised me was the lovely hop profile in this beer. It was packed full of apricot, flowers and pine, as well as some resin and a maltyness trying to balance it. The flavor isn’t on the same level, but sure something for a hophead. There’s still the lovely apricot, flower and pine, but it’s too high on bitterness. Full body and a long, long hoppy finish. Lager, who should have thought that. (080216)
Tried
from Can
on 16 Mar 2008
at 16:34
9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
750ml bottle (Bottle 036) from hellomynameis, Nose is not as prominent as some other impys, all the flavors there, but not as strong; Aroma of chocolate, toffee, licorice, light smokiness and roastiness; Black with lighter clear brown edges and a big cinnamon tan head which laces the glass very heavily and stays around as you imbibe; flavor of chocolate, oaty grains, coffee, caramel, and some hop bitterness; finish is light hop bitterness and some alcohol warmth.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Mar 2008
at 23:20
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Courtesy of Quake1028. Pours clear deep gold with copper core and weak off white head. The aroma is pretty big to start with sweet malts mixed with lemon, candi sugar, peach, sweet apples and some mild earthiness. The taste is nice and fresh with both sweet and tart notes coming from such things as candi sugar, tart lemon, apples and mild yeast spices. Seems to end with a tasty mild malt roastiness.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Mar 2008
at 09:42
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Very dark brown and almost free of carbonation. Fruit and malt aroma, but the malt is dry rather than thick. This beer is fairly dry overall. Flavor has good, sour fruit, and it does seem like natural fruit and no artificial flavoring. Not sweet at all, but interesting palate that is kind of heavy.
Tried
on 01 Mar 2008
at 18:07
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Can, 5.1%. Thanks, yespr. Roasted and creamy aroma. Very dark brown colour, seems clear. Unstable tan head. Thin to medium mouthfeel, but with a little creamy carbonation. Roasted flavour, OK dark malts. Hint of nice, fresh, grassy aroma hops. Low bitterness. Not complex, but nice and drinkable.
Tried
from Can
on 24 Jan 2008
at 10:48