8/10
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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.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 May 2009
at 22:33
7.4/10
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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.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 May 2009
at 19:42
7.5/10
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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.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 May 2009
at 19:37
6.5/10
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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.
Tried
on 08 May 2009
at 13:05
7/10
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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
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 May 2009
at 07:48
3/10
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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.
Tried
on 24 Apr 2009
at 15:55
7/10
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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).
Tried
on 18 Apr 2009
at 20:35
8/10
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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]
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Apr 2009
at 02:58
7.2/10
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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.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Apr 2009
at 22:01
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
2009 bottling - Pours a slightly hazy ruby color - somewhat earthy oakiness in the aroma, with notes of vanilla, bourbon, toffee, cherries - the flavor is heavy with coconut and toasted oak - the wood dominates much of the beer, especially in the finish, where is starts to taste like sucking on a barrel - through the middle it tries to overcome this flaw, with sweet toffee, treacle, caramel, chocolate - but these flavors get washed out by the strong oak and peppery alcohol in the finish - less time in the barrel next time and this will be a lot better.
Tried
on 10 Apr 2009
at 00:07