6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
50cl bottle from Jumbo, Vantaa. Poured hazy light copper color. Fluffy white head, some lacing. Aroma is fruity hoppy (lemon mostly). Flavor is malt, hops and some yeasty notes. Finish is fruity and bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Aug 2010
at 01:06
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle listed as 10.5% from City Beer. Pours with a hazy honey brown body with a minimal off-white head that fades. Aroma of honey, dates, dried fruits, craisins, and oat based cereals. Toffee, brown sugar, caramel. Taste is boozy, sweet, cereally, oats, a bit bitter, brandy. Pretty decadent. I actually like the overt booziness of it. Bitter (in an astringent grain way), but not too oppressively so. Medium to low bubbles. Huge body. I like it better than my rating suggests.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Aug 2010
at 21:14
7.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle from City Beer (bottle mentions that it was aged on oak for two months). Thick brown-black pour with a large deep tan head. Head is long lasting and leaves great lace. Aroma of earth, toffee, licorice, chocolate, roast and raisin. A bit of vanilla and chestnuts. Mocha. Taste is bitter, dusty cocoa, chocolate, nuts, asphalt. A bit oily. Raisins. Kind of tannic and astringent. Earthy, tobacco, bitter. A bit of back strap molasses in the long finish. Pretty good. Medium to high bubbles for the style. A bit chalky.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Aug 2010
at 20:35
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 4
Draft. Hazy brown color. Aroma of subtle hay. Taste of bitter almonds, pretty similar to what I would imagine cyanide poisoning is like. Could not finish this one.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Aug 2010
at 15:30
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Draft. Dark brownish maroon. Aroma of cocoa powder. Taste has plenty of malt and caramel. Decent.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Aug 2010
at 15:25
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Cask at GBBF 2010... deep black ... big toffee malt nose ... big bourbon front ... light vanilla ... lots of chocolate ... tooo much bourbon.
Tried
from Cask
on 09 Aug 2010
at 01:48
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Cask at GBBF ’10. Black pour no head. Coffee, smoke, wood and chocolate aromas. Quite peaty. Nice, earthy flavours of vanilla, malts, dark chocolate, smoke and wood. Nice, dry smoky finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 07 Aug 2010
at 02:48
7.3/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draught at Arendsnest. Muddy, shitty looking brown. Nice, rich smoked aroma, very maty. Sweet smokey flavor of caramel and chocolate, with burnt wood and a strongly bitter finish. A bit harsh, very sweet, with something like miso and lots of umami. Interesting, if not quite perfect.
Tried
on 07 Aug 2010
at 01:46
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle@home. Black color with dark (but small) head. At first a strong smell of mocha, later roasted coffeebeans. Taste is malty sweet with lots of roast and coffee, lingering on for a long time, joined by a slight bitterness in the finish. Lovely coffee stout.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Aug 2010
at 12:52
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
From cask. Pours dark brown to black with a fully gone head. Aroma is dark malty, wooden, fruity and dry phenolic note. Lasting roasted malt and smoked. Slight tarish from back of the tongue. Lasting fruity note. The smoked notes stay persistingly into the far finish. Nice.
Tried
from Cask
on 04 Aug 2010
at 05:13