6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Creamy-beige head, over dark red-brown beer. Lots of liquorice (drop), little nose in any case. Liquorice, dry, even wry bitter taste, leafy, and lots of dark malts. Very slick, rather well-bodied, but ending a bit empty. Not very impressive, and even after a long explanation of the brewer, I’m still at a loss WHICH Kulmbacher beer - he speaks about a style? - is meant.
Tried
on 16 Sep 2007
at 13:50
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask Fluffy beige head; foxy-chestnut, fully clear beer. Immediate, and unmistakably: old hops, but still grapey. It lends the beer a lambic-y smell, without the Brett characteristics, not really sourish. Sweet-ish taste, caramel-y but with a sudden bitterkick in the palate. Port-like hint at sweetness, but dry, dry sultanas. Terribly complex. Very slick & syrupy. Much bitterness in the aftertaste. Extremely interesting beer, one to try. Completely different from ANY IPA I knew.
Tried
from Cask
on 16 Sep 2007
at 13:18
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Cask Fluffy greige head, near black, but with ruby highlights. Lots of UK hops, dry, more than roasted notes. Grapey, lively flavours with especially retronasal roasted, and a bit of liquorice. More fresh grapey hops with every sip. In the aftertaste, I get stouty sourness. Light with some wheatlike slickness; not empty. Very close (as intented) to the original Entire Butt; as far as one can access that.
Tried
from Cask
on 16 Sep 2007
at 12:19
8.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Cask@GBBF2007. Dark ruby red colour, big beige head. Aroma is very much caramel, licorace, wood and some hops. Flavour is really wooden and mixed with tropical fruit juice. Then add some slight berryish sourness and slight smoke. Really pleasant.
Tried
from Cask
on 29 Aug 2007
at 06:12
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask, gravity dispense at Woodford Beer Festival at The Duke, Woodford, Northants, 25-05-07. Everyone in our group hated this apart from me, described as ’tasting like sick’, ’tastes a bit sour’. Poured amber it had a slightly fruity nose, the taste was also quite fruity and despite some sweetness it really did have a bite to it, I quite liked it but on the other hand I wouldn’t rush to seek it out again there are a lot better beers out there.
Tried
from Cask
on 29 May 2007
at 02:10
5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Cask, GBBF 2006. A hazy orange beer with no head. The aroma is sweet fruity, while the flavor has slight notes of diacethyl, combined with notes of metal, leading to a dry end.
Tried
from Cask
on 05 Mar 2007
at 12:45
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle Pigs Ear BF. Black colour, tan head. Really lovely aroma. Strong dark beer, bit like an Impy stout crossed with a barley wine. Fine, some fruits, dark, some espresso coffee.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Dec 2006
at 08:26
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Pours a clear brown colour with an off-white head. Malty fruity yeasty aroma. Sweet malty bitter and yeasty hoppy flavor. Fruity hoppy finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Oct 2006
at 09:44
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
(Cask at GBBF, London, 3 Aug) Colour is pale amber with small head. Nose is malty and nutty with some fruit, butter-scotch and an earthy hop aroma. Taste is malty, nutty with notes of peaches, toffee and a dry bitter finish with earthy hops. There is an underlying lactic note of butter-scotch here, maybe indictaing it’s passed its peak. Have to give it another try if I stumble across it. Still, definitely drinkable.
Tried
from Cask
on 26 Aug 2006
at 10:18
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Near black beer with red highlights; thin but rather stable greige head. Ink, laurel and lavender, very aromatic nose, with beautiful, slightly dried hops, lupuline soap and pine resin. Taste is dry, but thin version of the nose; same aromatics. Resin is more obvious in the taste. Balance is to dream of. Retronasal juniper berry. If it weren’t sooo bl**dy British thin, this would be truly superb. Seldom I tasted a beer (omitting the international lagerbrigade for a moment here) where nose and taste accord so perfectly. Big bravo for this. British raters, please, try! Big thanks to Father Xmas MatW.
Tried
on 20 Jan 2006
at 15:55