6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
22 ounce bottle from Bestway in Greenboro, NC. I also purchased on at Bruisin Ales. Pours a hazy copper color with a thin head. Decent head retention and lacing. The aroma is very faint with notes of leafy hops and pale malts. Taste is leafy, citrus hops with a caramel backbone. Some lingering bitterness. Medium bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Mar 2010
at 19:14
4.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 5
22 ounce bottle from Bestway in Greensboro, NC. Best by July 2010. Pours a very pale yellow color with a thin head. Fair head retention and decent lacing. Aroma of corn, sweet malts, confectioners sugar and a bit of grass. Taste is pale malts and grassy hops with a faintly sweet finish. Light on flavor. Thin and faintly watery. Light bodied. Clearly intended for the macro fan.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Mar 2010
at 20:16
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
22 ounce bottle from Bestway in Greensboro, NC. Pours a hazy bronze color with a medium tan head. Good head retention and lacing. Aroma of nutty caramel malts with a hoppy finish. Taste is caramel, nuts, toasted malts, and light nondescript fruity notes. Medium bodied. Decent beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Mar 2010
at 17:05
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
with Honey-22 oz bottle @Tampa Wkly Gathering @BT-pours a tight light brown head and black color. Aroma is dark malt-roasty/chocolate, dark fruit-raisin/prune, earthy. Taste is dark malt-roasty/chocolate/coffee, dark fruit-fig/raisin/prune, biting earthy hops.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Mar 2010
at 08:48
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Waxed bomber pours up less than (label stated) darker than night with a tan head. The aroma is sweet with malts, molasses and sweet pine hop infused wort followed by some chocolate and alcohol heat. The taste is bright with carbonation enhanced malts, roasted malts and then mildly burnt malts just before molasses and chocolate join in. By midway it stays sweet with some pine hops and a wort sensation. It ends with lingering sweetness and modest burnt maltiness.
Tried
on 23 Feb 2010
at 20:06
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
2007 Bottle - thanks to Toby. Pours a dark amber color with a finger of creamy beige head. Nose is bourbon based with malty and faded hop notes. Pretty much identical into the taste. Rather smooth and syrupy. Good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Nov 2009
at 12:55
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle Pours out a mahogany topped with a sand head. Aroma was of sweet malts, bourbon, oak, vanilla, and some heat. Taste was nice not over the top on the bourbon side. Plenty of the oak and sweetness to balance it out.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Oct 2009
at 20:18
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Brewgrass 2009 Fairly clear dark brown pour with the typical smallish head found on many Barley Wines. Complex aroma of dried dark fruits, vanilla, light Bourbon and caramel. Smooth well balanced English style Barely Wine. It was a surprise to find this sort of thing at a Brew Fest.
Tried
on 24 Sep 2009
at 12:40
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Courtesy of kp. Pours clear striking amber with thin white head. The aroma is oak, bourbon, vanilla and booze. It starts with a short pulse of sweet malts and ends with nose searing heat. The taste is full and smooth. I get oak mixing with vanilla and then moving toward bourbon notes. There doesn’t appear to be much more going on here than that. Certainly this is an example of barrel aging that nearly covers up all the notes from the beer that went in the barrel. Still enjoyable though. I love how smooth it is.
Tried
on 30 Jul 2009
at 19:27
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Some oxidation, bourbon covers most of it. A little sweet, with moderate bourbon. Brown color.
Tried
on 01 May 2009
at 20:23