Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Blind tasting at Papsø’s
Dark color, mahogany with ruby shades; medium creamy head. The aroma is very nice, clearly it has Bourbon vanilla, persistent, with sweet nuts, ending with an impression of cinnamon and fudge. Unfortunately the flavor shows, for me, some flaws: unwanted sourness, chocolate flavor, the sweetness is gone, some mou (fudge) candy trace, quite harsh final (medium sourness mixed with partially roasted malts). Confused.
I had to fairly adjust the score after the tasting, as it was not mentioned that it was a cherry beer. Originally: 8-4-5-3-11.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
bottle at Ft Wayne tasting - Pours black with a tan head. It smells of dark roast malt and chocolate. There’s a big roast malt flavor with ample chocolate character. It’s a sweet beer with a little bitterness showing up in the finish of this full bodied brew.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
From bottle, blind #27. Pours cloudy dark amber with a small off-white head. Dry wooden hoppy aroma. Dry wooden, dense fruity and acidic to citric fruity flavoured. Bitter and acidic flavoured into a lasting dry finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
From bottle, blind #26. Pours dark brown with a small tan head. Fruity and slight wineous aroma, subdued hoppy. Fruity and light roasted to vague sulphorish flavoured. Light dry wooden and fruity into a lasting mixed impression into the far finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Dark brown colour. Thick head. Rich coffee nose with dark choclate. Fairly heavy with both vanilla bean and coffee bean. Sweetish in the finish veers this towards vanilla latte territory and that’s not going to work for me. The underlying quality of the ingredients and production is evident but the profile of the beer is simply not to my taste.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle at DLD ...Deep water ... big coffee nose ... smooth roast ... light bitter ... coffee front ... load and loads of cofeee ... quite hoppy ... just a bit too much
JK (8171) reviewed Honey Blonde Ale from Central Waters Brewing Co. 16 years ago
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3
Unprocessed grain flavor. Gold, and very light. Some honey, and a little lager yeast. I am sorry to say this just isn’t very good.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Pours a turbid dark brown - thin wisp of lace - aroma of intensely strong coffee, moderate bourbon, vanilla beans, a touch of coconut/toasted oak - the flavor has an initial sharp bitterness from the coffee, followed by spicy alcohol - the oak and bourbon don’t manifest until the finish, but they come on strong - alcohol gets astringent as it warms - good, but somewhat over-rated (like a lot of other CW beers).
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle 50cl. @ [ Ulfborg Tasting ].[ As Central Waters Brewers Reserve Bourbon Barrel Barleywine ]. [ Trade by Papsoe ]. Clear dark amber color with a average to large, frothy - creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off- white to light brown head. Aroma is light heavy malty, caramel, dark berry, raisin, prune, date, wood, oak, vanilla. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium to full, texture is oily and smooth, carbonation is soft, finish feel is light to moderate alcoholic. [20081202]
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
12oz bottle. Hazy orange-tan color. Mildly sweet, subdued aroma. Easy on the palate, quite smooth and drinkable. The honey is well incorporated with the malt and crisp balanced bitterness. A little thin, but it sort of helps the honey not come off too thick. Good stuff, I’d try it again.