7.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Pours a jet black body with a small creamy brown head. Aroma of sweet chocolate, caramel, molassas and roasted malt. Sweet coffee and chocolate flavor, light molassas hints and some roasted malt. Medium body with medium low carbonation.
Tried
on 16 Nov 2007
at 16:50
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Bottled. Dark color, medium dark brown head. Aroma of heavily roasted malt, bready, licorice, coffee, chocolat, rye. Malty taste, licorice and chocolat, some sour milkyness, bitter. Bitter malty palate. Very good aroma, taste is a bit less though. Still great stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Oct 2007
at 11:46
8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Black with a lasting light brown head. Caramel, toffee and sweet chocolate in the aroma. Roast, slightly sour flavour, plenty of roast barley here.
Tried
on 01 Oct 2007
at 19:37
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
bottle: Pitch black with creamy brown lasting head..wauw... Strong roasted aroma. Bitter coffee. Smooth & filling texture. Bitter roast coffeee in the end. Chocolate. Burnt malts for sure.. I like it a lot!
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Oct 2007
at 13:19
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at LCRBM3. Black colour with lasting tan head. Roasted, intense malts. Really drinkable. Lovely, superb malts. Good grainy feel on the end.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Sep 2007
at 10:41
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Thanks to Glouglouburp for this bottle at bctc 07 trade. This was the last of 5 smoked beers for the night. Pours black-hole black with a small off-white head. Aroma is strong, starts with a rich fumy chocolate (think rich expensive dark chocolate). Then followed by hints of smoke and the way your hair smells after slaving over a charcoal grill all day long. Taste is very bitter-roasted-end-of-espresso, amplified. Some very mineral-like smoke. Yet it’s a pretty quaffable beer with hints of sweetness wrapped around a long bitter finish. No hint of alcohol. Basically, it’s a very rich chocolate beer with hints of smoke, how much cooler can you get. 341ml bottle, Hobgoblin tulip glass
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Sep 2007
at 11:29
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Getestet beim LCRBM Leicht süßer und nur mäßig rauchiger Antrunk. Dieser Ton nimmt nicht zu, die SÜße allerdings wird stärker und wirkt teilweise störend. Ausgeglichener wirkt das Bier mit dem Eintreten eines herben Tons. Nachtest (Noten z.T. angeglichen): Aromatisch rauchiger Geruch, Schinken, würzig und angenehm. Sehr dunkler Malzantrunk, kaum rauchig, sehr würzig. Im Nachgeschmack deutlich rauchiger, daneben nach Bitterschokolade. Test vom 11.9.2007, Gebinde: Glasflasche Noten: 10,10,10,9,5,11 - 10,00
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Sep 2007
at 10:48
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Dark brown-black; yellow-beige rim for head. Wood, smoked but very refinedly, like a very expensive, lightly smoked ham. Very dry, a taste of wood and sweetwoods, gradually building up. Again sweet ham, honey-cured, and a touch of green apple-cyanide. Very good smoked porter. I cannot help it, but I usually like René Huards beers, this one is no exception.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Sep 2007
at 00:42
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
341ml bottle from Glouglouburp, 2005 vintage. I also had a 750 at BCTC which was nowhere near as impressive as this bottle. Poured into a tulip glass, absolutely black color with a small tan lacing. Aroma is awesome-irific. Hits you first with charred smoked meat (just the way I like my meat), then comes some sweet smokiness and surrounded by plenty of burnt/charred characters. Strong, smokey, lightly sweet, and charred, how amazing. Taste is lighter with subtle chocolate sweetness wrapped in smoke. Leaves a long bitter coffee aftertaste. A light-medium body with some mineral/seltzer qualities on both flavor and mouthfeel. Low bitterness, very quaffable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Aug 2007
at 21:47
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
341ml bottle from Glouglouburp, 2005. It’s weird to see a bottle say "strong beer" on it, stupid American laws. Pours brown with just a bit of translucence on the edges otherwise too dark for any clarity. Pours with just a bit of a tan halo lacing. Aroma is very strong and starting to show some age. It’s very perfume-y prune which is sweet and strong but at the same time a bit rotten-fruit-like. Other aromas of meat with light soy sauce, dark plum sweetness, and some alcohol booziness. Taste is similar with aged, perfume-y prune, some chocolate, and a long aftertaste of rotten grapes, which seems like a direct result of the age (it is almost 2.5 years old). Still though the beer is very nice, sweet and fun enough to drink. Mouhfeel is a bit slick, like thin oil, its also under carbonated, which does not help. Low bitterness and leaves a long slight past their ripeness dark fruits.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Jul 2007
at 20:36