Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle shared at chriso’s Easter 2015 tasting - London. Sourced from the brewery. Pours deep brown with a creamy tan head. The nose holds some dark fruits, light coffee, faint cocoa. Medium sweet flavor, roasty, with light ash, cocoa, burnt earth, burnt toffee. Medium bodied with average carbonation and creamy texture. Nicely balanced finish with subtle creamy coffee, toasty bread and chocolate. Pretty solid and well rounded, although I was surprised that the coffee character wasn’t more pronounced.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at Chriso easter tasting. Thanks to Leighton for this one. Mahogany brown clear pour with a thin off cream head. Aroma is nutty, earthy coffee, bean, light toast. Flavour is composed tart dried fruits, fig, coffee, bean, toasted malts, smooth light roast, little milk. Palate is semi sweet, moderate carbonation. Ok beer, not great.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle at chrisO.. Deep black... Thin tan head.. Soft sweet chocolate roast dark roast nose ... Soft chocolate roast.. Dark chocolate... Soft sweet chocolate roast... Dry caramel chocolate roast
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle shared at the C’Ville Foxy Knoxy tasting. Clear golden, thin fizzy off-white head. Decent retention. Aroma of coffee, vanilla, chocolate, toffee. The taste is caramel, toffee, coffee.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle at the Charlottesville Tasting. Clear golden orange with off-white head. Aromas of coffee, light roast. Tastes of coffee, light floral notes, light cocoa. Medium body with a dry finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
750ml bottle, from trade with bytemesis, shared with friends. Thank you Mike! Very hazy yellow-golden color with white head. Hoppy aroma, floral and herbal, basil - mallow notes, fruity, citrus and tropical fruits, light grassy. Sweet and bitter taste, hoppy fruity and herbal like the aroma and light malty. Medium oily body with soft to average carbonation.
nimbleprop (16712) reviewed Upper Case from Trillium Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
750ml bottle pours a lightly hazy gold with some frothy, white head. Aroma is quite dank, a lot of chivey/garlicky notes, a little onion dip, grassy too, mild pine, some tropical fruit, straw. a little lurking guava sweetness. Flavor follows, very grassy, straw, lots of dank hop, some tangerine, some orange, mild honey, some turbinado sugar, tropical fruit. I was surprised at how tempered the bitterness levels were. For a nose with that much hops, the bitterness was extremely balanced. Scary drinkable.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Pours gold into a tulip. Bright white head with little retention recedes to hug rim. Dark resin and grapefruit aromas. Soft with sweet caramel and yeast upfront turning to citrus and resin before the lasting pith finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7.5
Honey and grass nose. Clear amber, medium head. Orange, grass, some funk. Full body, easy carbonation, fairly warm.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle courtesy of GenDV138, grazie! Clear amber yellow color, white head. Aroma of coffee, haystacks, straw. Taste has dusty, peppery coffee. It works. Quite well, actually.