7.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Immensely piney aroma with lightly roasted chestnuts and caramel. Sparkling clear copper pour with a thin peach colored head. Bitter and clean finishing pine needle, but rather weak. Good, but severely lacking in something. The hops are good quality, but the malt doesn’t thrill me. The rating is very generous.
Tried
on 26 Apr 2008
at 11:29
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Apple, cinnamon, touch of clove on the nose. Sparkling amber color, thin head. Tastes of phenolic apple with a bitterness that seems out of place. Bitter grain and grass lingers. Rather off balance.
Tried
on 23 Apr 2008
at 16:02
3.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 2
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Aroma is skunky and feety grain. Gold color, thick white head. Sweet corn taste, grass on the palate. Much too sweet and hopless. Not typical of the brewer’s ability.
Tried
on 23 Apr 2008
at 16:00
9.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 10
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9.5
Very complex intense aroma of toffee, chocolate syrup, woody, leafy, bark. Trace of smoke and fig and even a bit musty smell to it. Black opaque pour, viscous, with a thick brown head, and good lacing. Tastes of espresso, bitter bark, currants, and high quality hops. Espresso and walnut finish. Frothy mouthfeel, fantastic complexity and balance. No trace of alcohol. Pairs well with strong meats and cheeses. Hops really shine through when warm. Amazing brew!
Tried
on 23 Apr 2008
at 15:58
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Bottle from Whole Foods Charlottesville. Pours ruby red with large tan head. Aroma of caramel, toffee and pear. Hops are a little too assertive. Nice toffee flavor. Nice effervescence. But, off balance and there is an "off" flavor. The only way I can describe it is the juice from that fruit cocktail from my elementary school lunches.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Apr 2008
at 22:13
4.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 3
Bottle from WFM Charlottesville. Pours a hazy straw-lemon color with a medium sized frothy head. Good retention and moderate lacing. Aroma was skunk at first but mellowed into yeast and clove. Taste is watery, bland and uninteresting. A little sourness and a typical yeast flavor. Bleh.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Apr 2008
at 17:57
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
650ml bottle. Thick and rich brown color. Nice creamy head. Tangy and fruity flavors that I’m assuming come from the Legend yeast work much better in this beer than in the porter. This beer is full bodied, rich, and still remains highly drinkable. Great session brown ale. re-rate 2/10...looks completely filtered out, thin and a very enjoyable, easy mouthfeel. Clean, thankfully lacks the sticky mouthfeel due to the over-use of specialty malts a lot of brown ales suffer from. Still a great session BA,
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Apr 2008
at 23:59
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
22 oz bottle from Harris Teeter in Charlottesville. Pours dark, dark brown, appears thick and black in the glass. Dark brown head sticks around awhile. Aroma is pure, overwhelming caramel. I liked it after a bit, but it was a bit shocking at first. Taste of caramel, hops, anise, vanilla, brown sugar. This is a bold beer, and very tasty. One of Legend’s best.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Mar 2008
at 13:57
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
22oz bomber. Pitch black color with a nice, frothy head. The aroma is pleasant enough, not really displaying many chocolate or roasted malt qualities. The taste is off in my opinion, quite sour and pungent. I like sour beers and don’t really fit the style-Nazi mold, so i can deal with it and accept it for what it is. I’d assume it would be a little different on tap. The roasted malt sweet taste comes through but the sourness is really there, not unlike a Rodenbach.
Tried
from Can
on 24 Mar 2008
at 17:55
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
22 oz from Whole Foods Charlottesville. Pours chocolate brown with a small, persistent toffee colored head. Earthy mocha aroma. Taste is mocha up front with a minimal yet bad hop character in the aftertaste. Nice buttery quality to the palate. Goes down easy, but forgettable.
Tried
on 19 Mar 2008
at 20:06