7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours amber into a shaker. Bright white head recedes leaving spider lacing. Pine resin and grapefruit aromas. Full with sweet caramel malts upfront, a pine middle and a lasting grapefruit finish.
Tried
on 08 Mar 2009
at 19:23
5.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5
12oz bottle-pours a rich light brown head and mahogany color. Aroma is rich dark malt-chocolate/molasses, some acidic. Taste is ashy, dark malt-chocolate/molasses, secodnary acidic/astringent hops bite, slight fruit notes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Jan 2009
at 09:00
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
12oz bottle-pours a rich light tan head and copper color. Aroma is tangerine hops, then a musty/grassy, light malt-some caramel. Taste is leathery/light malt-slight caramel, secondary hops-musty/grassy/herbal/light lemon. Comes across as an OK EPA with parts that clash.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Jan 2009
at 08:59
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pours light ebony into an English pint. Mocha head recedes to skim surface. Smoked chocolate aromas. Smooth with chocolate and dark caramel upfront and a lasting lightly tangy sweet smoke finish.
Tried
on 06 Dec 2008
at 20:05
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Pours gold into a shaker. Bright white head with medium retention. Soft with malts from front to back.
Tried
on 19 Nov 2008
at 15:20
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Cask (gravity) @ Great British Beer Festival, GBBF 2008, Earls Court, London, England SW5.Clear dark black color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, burnt, smoke - peat. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. (050808)
Tried
from Cask
on 09 Oct 2008
at 10:53
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Courtesy of fishingnet. Pours a gorgeous deep garnet with thin tan head. The aroma is mild with notes of roasted to more dark roasted malts, a bit of fruity esters, some earthiness and a hint of smoke and oxidation. The taste has a bigger carbonation bite than I was expecting bringing up roasted to nearly burnt malts to start. It then gets mildly earthy for a moment or two. Nice offering.
Tried
on 24 Aug 2008
at 22:22
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask at GBBF 2008 Pours black with next to no head. Hoppy and sweet but with a subtle sweet cherryness coming through, this went very well with my wild boar pork pie that I had just purchased.
Tried
from Cask
on 13 Aug 2008
at 02:28
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Cask at GBBF 2008 ... deep black ... very slight roast malt ... rounded roast malts ... low bitterness ... little chocolate and nicly balanced.
Tried
from Cask
on 12 Aug 2008
at 14:55
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask@GBBF 2008. Black beer with a malty aroma and a malty and smokey flavour. Overall an average smokey, malty and vinous beer.
Tried
from Cask
on 09 Aug 2008
at 10:04