2.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 1
Flavor 3
Texture 2
Overall 1
Brown bottle, 341 ml, purchased at the LCBO, savoured on July 2 2008; eye: voluminous tan head (9 fingers of head for 1 finger of beer), lots of lacing, copper, clear, no effervescence; nose: infection; mouth: thin, a bit of infection (a lot less than the nose was stating), finale in caramel with a hing of infection, watery, no carbonation; overall: to try again FRANÇAIS Bouteille brune, 341 ml, achetée à la LCBO, savourée le 2 juillet 2008; œil : mousse fauve volumineuse (9 doigts de mousse pour 1 doigt de bière), beaucoup de dentelle, cuivrée, claire, pas d’effervescence; nez : infection; bouche : mince, un p’tit peu d’infection (beaucoup moins qu’au nez), finale en caramel avec une pointe d’infection, aqueuse, pas de carbonatation; en résumé : à réessayer
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jul 2008
at 15:38
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
341 mL bottle from matt7215. Thanks! Orange-brown with almost no head. Malty aroma with floral hop notes. Strong hop taste... metallic, resin, and some grain also. Drinkable but forgettable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jun 2008
at 02:02
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle: Poured a clear copper color lager with a medium foamy head with average retention and no lacing. Aroma of light maple taste with some good caramel malt notes. Taste is a mix between some light fruity ester, some light maple syrup and some caramel malt notes. Body is average for the style with some average carbonation. Not too bad for the style but turn bad when gets too hot, this one must be drank cold.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Jun 2008
at 13:19
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Courtesy of CigarCityBrew. Pours deep brown with thin light brown head. The aroma is roasty malts, prunes, raisins and sugar sweet malts. The taste is much the same with roasty malts, earthiness, mild burnt malts and then adding in as well is sweet and tart dark fruit lining up along the back wall of the aroma arena. The fruity tartness hits the edges of my tongue tossing up faint moments of pain. The flavor overall is a bit thin, fruity and somewhat dark and malty. It is a beer, the kind you drink. I’ll have another.
Tried
on 02 Jun 2008
at 21:48
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottled at RBESG 2007. A hazy amber beer with a thin beige head. The aroma is weet mlaty with strong notes of bread. The flavor is sweet with not3es of bread and caramel with slight acidic notes in the background.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Apr 2008
at 09:17
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
(3/1/08) A bottle (brought by jerc) sample shared by duff at Zythos Bier Festival 2008 in Sint Niklaas. Black color with a brown head. Strong aroma of roasted malt and lots of dark chocolate. Nice roasted sweet flavor. Medium to full-bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Apr 2008
at 08:48
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. [Thanks to Duff] @ Zythos Bier Festival 2008, Sint Niklaas, Belgium. Dark black color with a small, virtually none appearance, virtually none lacing, fully diminishing, beige head. Aroma is heavy malty, caramel, chocolate, coffee, licorice. Flavor is moderate sweet and heavy bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is flat. (010308)
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Apr 2008
at 01:49
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
341 bottle from Harry! Nose of coffee and chocolate; black with brown edges and a big tan head; flavor of coffee, chcolate, and very light hop bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Mar 2008
at 22:05
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bouteille 341ml, courtoisie de Hogtownharry. De couleur noire et opaque. Nez de malt rôti (notes brûlées), de chocolat noir, moyen de café avec des notes de houblon herbeux, de fruits (cerises noires) et de réglisse noire. Mince-moyenne en bouche avec un pétillement moyen et une texture aqueuse et aux notes crémeuses. Léger goût fruité (traces de cerises noires et de cassis) avec de petites notes de chocolat au lait (notes lactiques) ainsi que des petites traces de réglisse noire lors de l’entrée en bouche auquel se rajoute rapidement un goût moyennement amer de malt rôti (plutôt brûlé) accompagné d’un léger goût de chocolat noir ainsi que de faibles notes de pain grillé puis progressivement se rajoute un moyen goût de café noir jusqu’en finale, où l’on retrouve également de petites notes de houblon herbeux asséchant ainsi que des traces métalliques. Post-goût moyen aux notes sèches, moyen-léger amer de rôti/ brûlé, léger de chocolat noir et de café et avec des notes de houblon herbeux.
Tried
on 13 Mar 2008
at 20:31
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
I think I have to thank Jeremy for this one - great! Dark beige head over black beer. Extremely chocolatey nose, dry with a tad sweet-smelling caramel behind. Dry, ashy flavours, lightly smoked, with a good bar of dark chocolate behind it, the kind flavoured with coffee and chunks. I think you’d get the kind if you could condense this. Though rather low on alcohol, it is still warming. The saturation enlightens it, but I’ve seldom had a beer that cried "sustaining" as much as this one. Very good stout. You Canadians can keep calling this "Imperial" only as long as you keep Lizzie as head of state, however. Foreign would suit it better - or Royal?
Tried
from Can
on 12 Mar 2008
at 16:50