Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Pours a clear amber orange with a tan head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has a good amount of caramel with some sweet grains and a hint of toffee and sweet fruits. Flavor has tons of sweet grains up front with a note of caramel and gets a bit darker in the finish with the addition of some toffee.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
deep dark fruit, black liquorice, dark chocolate, salty nose. Full bodied, dry, lots of layers and depth here. Salty, with a bit of acidity over roasted malts. very well balanced and lets the roasted malts shine in the finish. Def not a lot of hops, but that is what I like. Much more English, than American. Top notch.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
2010 bottle. Pours with a hazy/murky peachy orange hued body with a white ring of foam. Noticeable sediment. Aromas are of peaches, dried apricot, caramel, stone fruit, alcohol, esters and marmalade. Flavors are a bit rough on the alcohol, mild oxidation, caramel, stone fruit. Very bitter. Tea. Warming with medium carbonation. Full bodied.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draught (5%) @ Bakushu Club Popeye, Tokyo. Rated on 05.09.2011
Light aroma is sweetish, fruity and hoppy with some vanilla. Flavour is hoppy, slightly sweet, fruity but a bit stale. Also some berries. Slightly watery palate, hops linger in the aftertaste. Decent. 6-3-7-2-15=3.3
Cask @ The Aldgate as ”Swan Lake Algate Ale” (sic). Rated on 16.09.2011
Fresh and hoppy aroma with slightly sweet, caramel‐like malt. Flavour has sweetish toffee with some caramel. Hoppy finish. Feels like amber ale. 7-4-7-3-14=3.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Draught @ Bakushu Club Popeye, Tokyo. Rated on 05.09.2011
Aroma is light and slightly roasted with coffee. Flavour has lots of coffee and roastiness with some sugar. Dry palate, hoppy aftertaste. Good stout with lots of coffee, but the sugar and leathery palate do disturb a bit.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Draught at the 2011 Tanabata Beer Festival in Toyama. Earthy, grassy aroma with some citrus, metallic, some caramel malts. Dark brown with orange and lace. Earthy, hoppy, dry flavor with licorice, caramel, chocolate. Nicely bitter and dry. Clean and very drinkable. Good stuff.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Courtesy of riversideAK. Bottle pours hazy brown-ish copper with dirty white head. The aroma offers up hard candy like citrus, cherries, mango, pineapple and some spicy hops. The taste has loads of citrus and sort of tropical fruit hop flavor notes running amuck all over the place. It then begins to pick up some spicy hops and plenty of sweet malts. Into the finish the hops become a bit less flavor hops and somewhat more bitter hops. Still there are plenty of sweet citrus and tropical fruity hops heading deep into the after taste.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Hazy amber-caramel with a thin cream colored head. Caramel aroma. Caramel and woodsy flavor with an herbal note and slight PNW hops in background. Medium bodied. Czaramel and herbal notes linger with light spice and some spirit notes.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle from Big Star in Seattle. Pours hazy brown sugar with a slight off-white head. Rather sugary aroma. Med plus body. Flavor is something like plum with a lot of brown sugar and a little bit of hop bitter. More than a little bit. Enough to balance the malt. Far from the usual sticky sweet BW. This is a good one.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Draught at Q-Brick. Fruity, chocolate aroma with lots of berries—blueberries especially, and some cola. No roasted aroma or coffee, but a bit of sweet orange and milk. Black with pretty brown lace. Delicious—dark chocolate, berries, burnt wood, gin, alcohol burn just right. Prickly carbonation combines with high acidity to make it rather stimulating in the mouth—maybe too much so, but it is interesting. A very original beer, not at all a mainstream stout.