9.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 10
Texture 10
Overall 9
Cask @ ACBF 2012: very dark brown / black with a mocha head, smell is intensely sweet, lots of sweet plums, milk chocolate & vanilla, sweet dark malts, taste is candy, pudding sweet, caramel, lots of sweet plums, molasses, milk chocolate, plenty of vanilla, very sweet dark fruits, body is touch creamy, plumy, dear loard what a wondrous sweet concoction, the English Creme Brulee?
Tried
from Cask
on 10 Mar 2012
at 05:41
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Cask @ ACBF 2012: clear, slightly dark orange with a white head, smell reminds me a bit of nelson sauvignon, herbal & floral hops as well, taste is bitter, herbal, floral hops but also some white grapes & melon, slight white berries, slightly fizzy, touch watery cask thingy but quite nice anyway, pint-able
Tried
from Cask
on 10 Mar 2012
at 05:02
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
At ACBF 2012. Some liquorice pretty clean. Some toffee. Bit young needs to settle down. Toffee and choc. Ok
Tried
on 07 Mar 2012
at 00:04
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8
Draft. I learned what a damson is by drinking this one. Hazy brown color, small tan head. Aroma of rich damsons, vanilla, chocolate, coffee. Taste is similar. Very nice.
Tried
from Draft
on 05 Mar 2012
at 16:09
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask @ ACBF 2012, Moen. Couleur brune/cuivrée claire, col fin beige. Arôme de vanille reste légère, le tout sur un profile malté très British please avec un côté poudre de chocolat. En bouche, malt léger assez pâteuse et une vanille rendant le tout assez doux, ne paraît pas ses 8.5% avec en retrait un point d’amertume houblonnée voire fleuri. J’aurai juste aimé un peu plus de vanille et un peu plus de vie au niveau du malt, le tout reste assez faiblard, mais l’idée de base est sympa.
Tried
from Cask
on 05 Mar 2012
at 02:54
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask B.C."H." over black beer. Sweet, vanilla obvious, young oak, and complex finish. Fondant sweets, exactly the flavour of those pastel-coloured confection; flowery, and amandine/rosewater in the finish. Medium bodied, but very slick. Slight alcohol peeping in the swallowing. A tad too aromatized to be superb, but certainly original. Maybe the plums might come out a bit more to make it truly distinctive. Thanks to the brewers!
Tried
from Cask
on 05 Mar 2012
at 02:07
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
B.C."H.", black beer. Chocolate, dark malts, and some roasted aromas. Dry, oatmeal-like, and a bit ashy flavour & feel. Chocolate coming up again in the finish. Medium to well-bodied. Nice, discreet, but very balanced IPA. In fact, that’s the impression I get from most of the beers - and the owner...
Tried
on 05 Mar 2012
at 01:56
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask No head, black beer. Sweetish, bit lactic/milky, and touches of both liquorice and vanilla. Not really the whisky. Vanilla, chocolate, chocolate wafers, just a touch of roasty bitterness in the very finish. Well-bodied, very slick, some alcoholwarming. Better than the sum of its parts, really, and certainly not one to miss if you find it. Still, for a whiskybarrel-lagered IS, it is a bit too shy.
Tried
from Cask
on 05 Mar 2012
at 00:59
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Cask B.C."H."; metallic dark-golden beer. Nelson Sauvin, and other very fruity/flowery, blossomy hops, and lots of grapefruit too. Fruity-bitter, with grapefruit, bitter melon, lytchee. Light, but not empty MF. Gristslickness. Long bitter/hoppy aftertaste. Another excellent pale ale, in no particular national style - great!
Tried
from Cask
on 04 Mar 2012
at 12:25
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 10
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7
Imported from my RateBeer account as Hawkshead Damson & Vanilla Porter (by Hawkshead Brewery):
Aroma: 10/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 2/5, Overall: 14/20, MyTotalScore: 3.6/5
4/III/2012 bottle @ ACBF (Moen) - BB: n/a (2012-202)
Clear dark brown beer, small to no head. Aroma: vanilla, that's no lie! Some bubble gum, caramel, cuberdons (typical Belgian candy, purple cones), sweet, syrupy, grenadine. MF: no carbon, light to medium body. Taste: sweet caramel start, vanilla, curberdons, bit sour, strawberries, bubble gum, little woody. Aftertaste: vanilla, caramel, bitter hoppy ending. If only this would have had more body, it would have been a 4 or more.
Aroma: 10/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 2/5, Overall: 14/20, MyTotalScore: 3.6/5
4/III/2012 bottle @ ACBF (Moen) - BB: n/a (2012-202)
Clear dark brown beer, small to no head. Aroma: vanilla, that's no lie! Some bubble gum, caramel, cuberdons (typical Belgian candy, purple cones), sweet, syrupy, grenadine. MF: no carbon, light to medium body. Taste: sweet caramel start, vanilla, curberdons, bit sour, strawberries, bubble gum, little woody. Aftertaste: vanilla, caramel, bitter hoppy ending. If only this would have had more body, it would have been a 4 or more.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Mar 2012
at 09:08