7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Growler/bottle at Max’s. Pours black with brown head. Nose and taste of chocolate cookie malt, oak, rum, vanilla, roast chocolate and coffee. Medium body.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Nov 2013
at 16:50
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
The Sampler, Brooklyn tap: Pours golden with a white head. Aroma is spicy hops, spice, citrus, and pepper. Taste is certainly not pumpkin. It is rather bitter. There is some cream ale up in there, but mostly, this is just a hoppy strong ale. Alcohol is rather well-covered.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Oct 2013
at 11:15
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 6
Draft at the source. Cloudy amber color, tan head. Aroma of lightly siced caramel candy. Taste is sweet burnt caramel, almost creme brullee.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Oct 2013
at 11:36
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft at the source. Clear yellow color, bright white edge head. Aroma of lightly spiced rye bread. Taste is similar. Nice.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Oct 2013
at 11:33
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8
Draft at the source. Hazy dark brown color, beige head with nice retention and solid lacing. Aroma of cocoa powder, subtle licorice. Taste is coffee, burnt prunes, bittersweet cocoa. Tasty!
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Oct 2013
at 11:29
8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draft at the source. Murky golden color, tan head. Aroma of fresh hay, light cocoa. Taste is cocoa powder, brown bread, nutella. Looks are deceiving, this is nice, flavorful hoppy brown.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Oct 2013
at 11:25
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draft at the source. My 100th Joisey ratin, yooze guyz. Clear dark maroon brown color, thin beige edge head. Aroma of rich vanilla, dark sweet chocolate, caffe macchiato. Taste is rich espresso, vanilla, malted milk balls, prunes. Very tasty.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Oct 2013
at 11:16
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8
Draft at the source. Hazy golden yellow coloe, fluffy white head. Aroma of stonefruit, dusty and peery hay. Taste is bittersweet pear, meadow flowers, dank spiced earth. Very tasty
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Oct 2013
at 11:11
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
2013 vintage. Growler from Buy Rite in Cranbury, NJ. Pours a pale yellow gold color with a small bubbly white head. Big citrus hop aroma is redolent of pine needles and grapefruit. Crisp toasted malt flavor has complex spicy citrus hop domination. It’s all about the Citra hops here. Wonderfully complex and flavorful.
Tried
from Growler
on 25 Oct 2013
at 19:55
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Drop Off Service, NYC tap ($7): Pours cascading head, black, with beige looking foam: very pretty. Aroma is roasted malts, chocolate, hops. Taste is, as someone else noted, more like a dry stout than a sweet stout. Hop and roasted malt bitterness both present in good effect. Nice and creamy body. Quite good.
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Oct 2013
at 08:31