Subsidiaries
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft. Dark mahogony beer with a tan head. Roasty aroma with light chocolate. Cherry and chocolate flavor with some roast/coffee. Medium bodied. Cherry and coffee lingers with light roast. Needs more chocolate and less roast.
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Dec 2009
at 13:59
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Draft. Amber beer with an off-white head. Tropical fruit and caramel aroma. Tropical/summer fruit flavor with grapefruit and sweet malt. Medium bodied. Tropical fruit and grapefruit lingers with light earth and sweet malt.
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Dec 2009
at 13:57
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours thick to viscous, sporting a greige head for scant seconds; black beer with brown reflections. Alcohol, vanilla, ink, wood, liquorice and fusels vying for dominance - generally sweet nose. Alcohol and higher alcohols, sweetish. Bit medicinal, medicinal herbs. Pretty roasted, and retronasal smoked vanilla, soft gingerbreadcrust. Very slick, viscous, oily; obvious alcoholwarming, velvety texture. Very good beer - I’d rather classify it as a very roasted barley wine, rather than a stout, for one. Many thanks, Rodger, for this one - but could somebody explain this enigmatic name to me, please???
Tried
from Can
on 15 Dec 2009
at 10:48
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Huge, dense beige head over foxy orange beer. Incense, laurel & C-hops, drying out fast to dry hopbales, cray and corndust. Some caramel too, finishing on mandarinepeel aroma. Intense hops, but tempered by caramelly malts. Again mandarine/tangerine, or grapefruitpeel. Carpetfelt, cray too, stressing the dryness. Retronasal some rosewater. Slick, even sticky (without becoming sweet!), hopoils, discreet alcohol, full-bodied. Quite good IIPA, well-balanced as main feature; but missing the overwhelming, pure Ahoperlebnis the Harvest Ale gave me - more one to sip. I was so impressed with the Harvest Ale, that I immediately went onto this one, meant for the next day, really. Thanks very much, Rodger!
Tried
on 14 Dec 2009
at 11:40
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Very good & thick, resistent yellowish head, fed by lively carbonated metallic-orange beer. Very fresh and intense citrussy aroma (pink grapefruit, ugli, touch of ureum). Slightly resiny, very citrussy flavours, ending nearly harsh, bit short bitterness. Hops do indeed dominate the taste fully, but seen that that is the idea behind wet-hopping, that is perfectly allright. Light bodied, refreshing; near dry-out effect from the resins; spritzy. Very nice, light hopmonster; wet hops obviously pretty refreshing. Many thanks to brewer Rodger!
Tried
on 14 Dec 2009
at 09:57
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
As Single Hop Experiment. Draft at the Rubicon. Pours dark gold with a slight, cream and clingy white head. Aroma is flroal hop. Medium body with mild but sharpish carbonation. Flavor is fruity and floral covering light caramel. Not drastically bitter. Sort of llike an english ale that’s just a bit over bittered. Nice tasty finish. Goes a bit perfumey with time. Note: I chose Amarillo based on a search for Single Hop Experiment. Also on the floral bit.
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Nov 2009
at 15:07
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Draft. Brown beer with an off-white head. Toasty, nutty, light caramel aroma. Light caramel flavor with light mineral and a light sourness. Medium bodied. Earthiness and sour notes linger with a a light caramel, nuttiness, and light mineral notes. Not as good as the 6.4% beer.
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Oct 2009
at 10:34
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draft. Golden beer with a whitish head. light grapefruit and light pine aroma. light pine and earthy flavor with graininess and light spiciness. Medium body. OK bitterness. Graininess lingers with grapefruit, light earth, and light spice.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Oct 2009
at 14:41
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft. bronze beer with a cream colored head. yeast and spice aroma. Spice, eyast, and nice malt flavor. medium bodied. spice, yeast, malt, and light caramel lingers.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Oct 2009
at 14:40
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Draft. Hazy light orange amber beer with a nice whitish head. yeast, spice, and banana aroma. Banana, yeast, malt, and spice flavor with grapefruit hops backing. Medium-plus bodied. Yeast, spice, and banana lingers with some PNW hops.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Oct 2009
at 14:29