5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Dark brown coloured body, with light cola hues at the bottom with a nice sized one centimetre tall tan head. Aroma of raisins, concord grapes, roasted malt, nuts, earth, caramel and a touch of peat. Medium-bodied; Odd mushroom and meaty flavour with a funky cardboardie malt with caramel and way too much nuts and earth - very potent, and not in a good way. Aftertaste is quite strong with the malt and earth staying the longest then some light alcohol and nuts noticeable on the very tail end. Overall, not such a good representation of the style - more fitting as a brown ale, and even then, it wouldn’t be a good one. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from the Beer Baron in Livonia, Michigan on 30-April-2011 for a Special of US$1.89 sampled at home in Washington on 04-June-2011.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jun 2011
at 23:02