7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
22oz bottle @Brewers Jam-pours a thin light tan head and hazy amber color. Aroma is fruity, medium malt. Taste is fruity, medium malt, spice hops.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Oct 2010
at 17:00
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Hop Devil Grill 16oz ($3.25): Pours a clear amber with a long-lasting creamy head. Aroma is mostly of caramel malts and maybe some bubblegum or butterscotch. Essentially, this is a good amber ale and it is a good amber ale without overhopping it (Troegs, Green Flash). It manages to take the amber ale lameness and create a very smooth and very drinkable beer that is actually interesting and not just lame like most beers of this style. Sure there are hops and bitterness in this beer, but they don’t make the beer. It is rather the balance with the butterscotch flavors and malts that make this an example of what the amber ale could be, but seldom is.
Tried
on 23 Oct 2010
at 11:53
9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
bottle thanks Tom! Pours thick black with a dense, medium brown head. Aroma is earthy, tobacco, wood, burnt malts. Flavor is robust, thick and oily roasted coffee, grassy hops, some cocoa and mild herbal notes in the finish. Boy o boy, this is good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Oct 2010
at 16:51
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7
Hazy amber with a small white head. Aroma of pine, fruit, tobacco leaves, citrus and alcohol. Sweet malt flavour with pine hops, hot alcohol and a bitter finish
Tried
on 15 Oct 2010
at 13:22
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Peculier Pub tap ($6): Pours a copper color with a white head. Aroma is of fruit, malts, and a whole bunch of hops. Darker and more on the malty side than I really like my DIPAs (I like them to be pale hop monsters really...) Taste was quite nice, not too extreme on the hops, but didn’t impress me either way with them. Also it had that characteristic McNeill’s thickness and sweetness. A whole lot of grapefruit all mixed up into there. Pretty nice and especially when I was looking for the best alcohol to price ratio.
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Oct 2010
at 16:25
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Pours muddy brown. Nose and taste of Belgian yeast, brown sugar, burnt orange, fruits and figs. More like a barleywine than an old ale. Very yeasty. Lots of fruit flavors.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Sep 2010
at 14:01
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Pours bright gold into a Sam glass. Bright white head with excellent retention recedes leaving spot lacing to coat surface. Caramel and hay aromas. Crisp with front to back honey and caramel. Hint of resin in the lasting slightly bitter finish.
Tried
on 02 Sep 2010
at 16:00
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle @ Danish Summer Gathering, 2010. Pours hazy orange with a small creamy white head. Pine and grape. Very dry and bitter. Medium and smooth palate. Dry bitter lasting end.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Aug 2010
at 11:24
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle 22fl.oz. @ The Danish Summer Gathering, TTODRBSG10 - Ulfborg.Light unclear medium orange color with a average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, moderate to heavy hoppy, citrus - orange. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, caramel. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20100814]
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Aug 2010
at 13:43
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
clear caramelly brown, small white head. aroma is mild hoppy, malty base leaning to the sweet side flavor is very strong bitter, grapefruits, pine, lots of bitterness, good malty balance,
Tried
on 14 Aug 2010
at 08:09