7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Crystal clear golden coloured body with a nice off-white head, even from draught. Aroma of wheat, coriander seed, yeast, corn and a small amount of curacao. Medium-bodied; Chewy taste with strong bananas, cloves and yeast in the taste. Aftertaste is nice and refreshing - malt is leftover with a good amount of sweetness. Overall, a good american kristall - If you bottled this with a german label, you’d never know it was produced in the states...let alone a suburb of Washington! A great beer to start off the Old Dominion Beer Festival with! I sampled this six ounce sample from pseudo-draught at the Old Dominion 2005 Beer Festival on 24-June-2005 in Ashburn, Virginia.
Tried
from Can
on 21 Jan 2009
at 00:08
6.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Nice deep copper coloured body with a perfect sized dense slightly-off white head. Perfect look! Aroma of nice piney hops with a good spruce scent and a long-lasting caramely maltness that lasts throughout the scent. Medium to Full-bodied; Strong sweetness up front with much more malt than hops and a good dose of spice. Aftertaste shows even more sweetness - caramel, toffee and even more caster sugar. Overall, a nice winter offering - each of the Winter Brews are good to try. A bit lacking in the hops, but the malt and sugars help this one out. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle given to me from my friend Phil (haddon90) on 24-February-2006.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jan 2009
at 23:13
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
2006 (11/17/2006) bottle thanks to beervirgin72. Pours with a decently thick, khaki head that slowly dissipates to a film over a murky golden brown body. Good lacing. Strong bourbon aroma that fills the room. Aroma is bourbon, oak, curacao and other citrus booze, orange peel, vanilla, brown sugar, toffee, maple and leather. Taste has a lot of citrus, including some astringency, and lots of bourbon and some barrel ashy-ness with toffee, alcohol and a decent amount of sherry. Basically a lot of barrel and orange. Not amazingly complex, but still pleasant. Somewhat syrupy and mouth coating. Alcohol is there with a slight burn and warming after a few minutes. Moderately tingly carbonation. Good and somewhat different barley wine.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jan 2009
at 04:48
4.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Draught at Old Dominion Brewhouse, Washington DC
Blond color, big head. Not the aroma (too light) nor the color reveal anything amber, just the flavor shows some nutty touch. Correctly bitter.
Blond color, big head. Not the aroma (too light) nor the color reveal anything amber, just the flavor shows some nutty touch. Correctly bitter.
Tried
on 18 Oct 2008
at 08:41
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle: Brown with a reddish tint. Nice little creamy beige head. Aroma is sweet and seductive, faint oak and a lively maltiness. Tastes of light barrel aged notes, bits of vanilla, and a welcome amount of fruitiness. Not being well acquainted with sherry, but I think that is playing a role too. Easy to sip, seems to age well as I received this in trade from someone last year... Thanks for sending this to Boise!
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Sep 2008
at 11:20
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. [ Courtesy of kmweaver]. Light unclear medium amber color with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, fully lasting, light beige head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy berry - plum, raisin, wood, some caramel, fruity - tropic, notes of vanilla. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and bitter with a average long duration. Body is medium to full, texture is oily - smooth, carbonation is soft. (260408)
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jun 2008
at 15:50
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from kp, bottled November 4th, 2005. Pours cloudy reddish brown with minimal head. Spicy aroma with dark fruit and whisky. Taste is oak, vanilla, whisky, dark fruits. Dry finish. Spicy texture.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 May 2008
at 20:14
7.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
On tap at the brewpub. Dark black body with ruby highlights and a medium creamy off-white head. Big coffee aroma with roasted malt and caramel. Strong coffee and light roast flavor, some faint caramel. Medium light body with fairly low carbonation.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 May 2008
at 19:33
5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
On tap at the brewpub. Very slightly hazy golden body with a small off-white head. Light clove and faint banana aroma with some lemongrass. Lemongrass and faint clove flavor. Medium light body with moderately high carbonation.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 May 2008
at 19:31
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
12oz bottle. Red-amber color. Aroma is sweet and herbal. Crisp, with a spicy hop balance. Rich malty sweetness, some nice earthy caramel tones. Definite red characteristics coming through as well as a solid hop backbone. Pretty good beer, and I’ll bet my rating would improve had I reviewed this beer brewery fresh.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Mar 2008
at 01:54