Subsidiaries
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Black-amber beer with no head. Swet malt aroma with a little roastiness. Chocolate malt flavors with a bit of sweetness and roastiness. Slight hop presence. Easy drinking stout.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Apr 2005
at 11:40
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle. Mahogony-amber beer with a thin beige head. Caramel malt aroma. Light-medium body. Caramel/sweet malt flavor with a little citrus hop backing. Clean and easy to drink.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Apr 2005
at 19:05
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Amber beer with a small white head. Caramel malt aroma with some citrus hops. Citrus hop flavor balanced with the malt. A bit of grassiness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Apr 2005
at 19:03
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle. Dark amber-bronze with no head. Sweet malty aroma with a hint of spicey hops. Sweet malty flavor and finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jan 2005
at 18:57
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Bottle. Rich golden color with a quickly disapating white head. Malty aroma with ahint of spice and the same for the flavor with a little added caramel. Refreshing and easy to drink.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Jan 2005
at 13:05
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Slightly cloudy amber/copper coloured body with a thinnish white head. Aroma of pale malt, cardboard, some old hops and some sugars. Medium-bodied; Strong malt flavour with caramel and toffee at the front of the tastes. Fades off well into a suprisingly present taste. Aftertaste shows some quality, a decent flavour. Overall, a decent amber for the price, and even though its available at Trader’s, its not a bad beer. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased by jon[r888710] at Trader Joe’s in Tyson’s Corner, Virginia on 14-November-2004 with him.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Nov 2004
at 18:08
7.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Thanks to Darkover for the trade. This beer was a pleasant surprise. Pours a very dark brown (almost black) that is not quite opaque. Medium thick beige head and thin lacing. Nice coffee and chocolate aroma. The body is not very thick but is very smooth and drinkable. Roasted coffee, sweet chocolate and malt flavors. The finish is lightly bitter with a lingering coffee aftertaste. Easily the best Trader Joe’s beer I have tried and a pretty good Stout to boot.
Tried
on 18 Oct 2004
at 10:28
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Thanks to Darkover for the trade. Orange-amber color with a very thin off-white head and very little lacing. Light caramel malt aroma. Thin-bodied with astringent hops and alcohol at the forefront with not enough malt to balance it out. The finish does contain some sweetness but the underlying bitterness throws the whole thing off. Overall this is pretty much the same quality as the other Trader Joe’s beers I have tried.
Tried
on 16 Oct 2004
at 18:40
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Thanks to Lord Gorlock for this one! This pours a light gold color with a large frothy head that began to fade immediately. The aroma is fresh, green, undried hops. The flavor is sweet with a touch of bitterness in the finish. The flavor is very weak overall. Thin body.
Tried
on 25 Aug 2004
at 18:10
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottled. A good beer except, perhaps, for a little over the top coffee-ness. Pours a proper black body under a thin tan head. Extremely bitter coffee smell and taste. But somewhere in there, I was getting an impression of toasted marshmallows and cappuccino Jelly Bellys. I got this bottle at the brewery, but It’s otherwise sold in the Trader Joe’s chain.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jul 2004
at 09:06