6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle 22fl.oz. [ As No-Li Empire No. 8 Session IPA ].Clear medium yellow color with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white to off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, moderate to heavy hoppy, fruity, grass. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, fruity, grass, herbs, flowers, hoppy, sharp. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20140814]
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Aug 2015
at 13:24
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Bottle at GBBF. Thick, yellowish, creamy, lacing, frothy and very stable head over a deep orange blonde, almost amberish beer, darker and more red than average for the style - red IPA? Aroma of strawberry, lots of tangelo, pine resin, grapefruit peel, passionfruit, green tea, mango, caramel, toasted pine nuts, baked banana. Cleanly fruity and malty inset, bit toasted and biscuity like the amber colour already announced, fizzy but smooth with exotich fruits retronasally as well as a deep grapefruity and piney hop bitterness, very long, very aromatic but harshly bittering as well, resiny with some minerally saltiness, abrasive, very herbal and lasting for a long time. Quite an agressive IPA, but I liked it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Aug 2015
at 10:06
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
12 fl oz bottle. Pours cloudy dark amber with a small tan head. Aroma is toasted malty. Sweet, caramelosh malty. Bitter. Dry. Toasted dark malty. Bitter and toasted finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Aug 2015
at 16:05
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Drinking this mostly as a chaser to that nasty smoked ale just before - like seriously, that stuff just does not jive with my goods. I gotta tell ya. This has a very nice head- strong and sitting on top of a decent brown body with no carbonation. Aroma is sweet hops, typical hops, decent hops, American hops; yeah, there’s no layering here but it screams craft beer IPA like al the rest. Flavour is a decent balanced mix of hops with a hint of malt. Just okay, well made, but hard to pick out of a crowd.
Tried
from Can
on 11 Aug 2015
at 03:09
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle 22fl.oz. [ As No-Li Expo Series Noble Hop Extra Pale ].Clear medium yellow color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, moderate hoppy, grass, minerals. Flavor is moderate to light light heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a average to long duration, pale malt, grass, minerals. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20140814]
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Aug 2015
at 09:39
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Red waxed-dipped bomber, signed. Mine says Defacto 1594. I’m not sure what 1827 or 1594 signify, unless they’re bottle numbers. Aroma is strong in wood (smells like freshly chopped wood), caramel, vanilla, coconut, raisin, cinnamon, whiskey. Pours black with brown edges with a medium tan head with good retention; laces a little. Taste is bittersweet, roasty, chocolaty, along with all other aroma descriptors. Body is a little thinner than expected. A little harsh, but it tastes pretty good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Aug 2015
at 23:55
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
22oz bottle from Walmart in Spokane
Pours clear light golden with a medium sized white head. Aroma is fruity, sweet and herbal. Taste of pine needles, grapefruit, crackers and grassy, bitter
Decent, but too bitter to be real good
Pours clear light golden with a medium sized white head. Aroma is fruity, sweet and herbal. Taste of pine needles, grapefruit, crackers and grassy, bitter
Decent, but too bitter to be real good
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jul 2015
at 23:03
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Bomber. Interesting, a stout blended in with an IPA, both barrel aged. Pours a dark mahogany color with a medium beige head. A big nose, vanilla, sandalwood, some chocolate. The flavor is mostly dusty chocolate and big vanilla whiskey, some light tropical elements try to get in. More like a barrel aged stout. Some green resin, but more chocolate and ash. Smooth. Very nice.
Tried
on 22 Jul 2015
at 01:35
6/10
Tried
on 14 Jul 2015
at 04:13
8/10
Tried
on 14 Jul 2015
at 04:13