5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle thanks to bu11zeye. Pours with an off-white head and a hazed light brown body. Aroma is dusty peanut shells and the nuts themselves. Taste is malty with cardboard nuts and caramel. Light bubbles, dry mouthfeel.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Apr 2009
at 11:19
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6
12 ounce bottle. Pours an opaque brown color with a medium head. Decent retention and lacing. Aroma is roasted malts and hints of smoke and chocolate. Taste is roasted malts, milk chocolate, bitter hops and a milky finish. Medium bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Mar 2009
at 21:37
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
12 ounce bottle from Bruisin Ales. Pours a dark clear ruby color with a medium head. Fair head retention and good lacing. Aroma is major chocolate with light coffee and soft roasty notes. Taste is roasted malts, chocolate, subtle smoke and a bit of leather. Medium bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Mar 2009
at 20:46
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
12 ounce bottle from Bruisin Ales. Pours a clear brown tinged strawberry red with a large head. Good head retention and lacing. Aroma is moderate smoke, caramel and earthy notes. Taste is smoke, canadian bacon, caramel, grain and a faint hop finish. Medium bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Mar 2009
at 20:07
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
12 ounce bottle from Bruisin Ales. Pours a clear dark brownish ruby color with a medium head. Decent retention with nice lacing. Aroma of chocolate, slight roast and thin leafy hops. Taste is toasted malts and leafy, papery hops with a bit of caramel. Medium bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Mar 2009
at 18:34
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Courtesy of SeaBass. Pours clear copper with micro white head. The aroma has even yet nearly understated smoke to go along with sweet sugar malts, a bit of grain and hints of corn. The taste is very much the same with a very pleasing combination of understated smooth smoke mixing with crystal malts, malt sweetness, a touch or two of grain and a sense of corn kernels. Nice well balanced stuff.
Tried
on 28 Mar 2009
at 09:09
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Growler thanks to chef201atc. Pours with a small, light brown head over a black body. Aroma of chocolate, anise, tobacco, tar, vanilla and raspberry. Taste is chocolate, vanilla and smoke. Syrupy mouthfeel, light bubbles.
Tried
from Growler
on 20 Mar 2009
at 11:18
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle: Poured a reddish brown with a light beige head. Aroma is light smoke, caramel malts, and hops. Taste is smoky wood, malt, and hops.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Mar 2009
at 09:53
6.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pours copper, beige head. Aroma lightly smoky, malts and light caramel, Taste is malty, sweet notes of smoke with a light floral hoppy aftertaste. The smoke linger sin the background and never really comes to forward. Well balanced nothing being too forward and the smoke not really taking away from the overall palate.
Tried
on 18 Mar 2009
at 01:19
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
12 oz bottle from a Winter Beer 10 Pack purchased at World Market for me by my wife. Pour is brownish with bright red highlights. Smallish off white head. Moderate lacing. Aroma of grassy sweet caramel malt. Soft and natural. Taste is the burning caramel malt, with some toasted barley notes and floral grassy sweetness to the end. There is also a scotchy dark peaty taste present which adds a nice edge. The finish has just a touch of synthetic honey, detracts some. Palate is medium thin, noticeably carbonated, smooth, easy to drink. Overall an easy sipping beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Mar 2009
at 14:31