5.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4
Bottle: Absolutely gorgeous amber pour, garnet edges, and a thin ring of creamy beige head. The nose is malty, bready, and slightly tart. A little bit of dry, tart pie cherry scent. The taste is a bit bready, medicinal, and artificial fruit. Sort of like stale cough syrup. Highly carbonated. Brash. Not good. Looks nice though.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Mar 2015
at 21:25
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 5
Bottle - Cherries and vinegar and boozer. Clear reddish copper with a thin white head. Tart cherry and acetone with vinegar notes. Bit herbal and medicinal. I am not a fan.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Mar 2015
at 15:23
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Green wax-dipped bomber, signed by someone--the brewer I guess. Aroma is overripe cherries, yogurt, funk, wood. Pours a nearly clear rose color with a medium white-purple head that falls after a minute. Taste is lightly tart (6/10 on a sour scale), sweet, with strong overripe cherry flavor; finishes fairly bitter with the fruit lingering long after the swallow. The oak comes through with strong vanilla (I can’t remember ever tasting this much vanilla in a sour ale before), wood, tannins from either the red wine barrel or the cherries themselves--maybe both. Doesn’t taste anywhere near 10% ABV. This is really different than any sour ale I’ve ever had. It’s unique for sure. I think it’s getting underrated on here.
Tried
from Can
on 14 Mar 2015
at 21:47
4.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 5
22oz bottle picked up at Total Wine
Pours clear dark amber with a small off-white head, spotty lacing. Aroma is medicinal, caramel and band aid. Taste of toasted malts, caramel, herbal, pine with a medicinal aftertaste, hot alcohols
This was not good. The warmer it got the worse it was. I’ve had this bottle 3 months. I’d hate to try it after a few more.
Pours clear dark amber with a small off-white head, spotty lacing. Aroma is medicinal, caramel and band aid. Taste of toasted malts, caramel, herbal, pine with a medicinal aftertaste, hot alcohols
This was not good. The warmer it got the worse it was. I’ve had this bottle 3 months. I’d hate to try it after a few more.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Mar 2015
at 01:12
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Radlers are usually low in alcohol, part of their appeal for thirst quenching. At 7.5%, this is a heavyweight. Sour cherries dominate the aroma and taste. Nice looking pour into my Lindeman’s flute, clear dark brown with soft, fluffy, lasting head, lots of lacing too. Not bad, but what would be the right time for this beer> Dessert?
Tried
on 07 Mar 2015
at 20:20
6.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
22 Oz waxed bottle poured and split. Thanks Chris C. for sharing. Pours a pink tinted golden color with with an odd winish aroma. Flavor is similar to a cherry juice infused champagne. Sour berry flavor is nice, but there is something a little odd here. Biting finish. Not bad, more just strange. Has potential.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Mar 2015
at 23:13
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Beer #7 of 13 in blind tasting.
This to me was the most boring and average in the tasting. I actually guessed this correctly, the only one I was correct on. Bitter malt present. Not particularly "rich" or hoppy or anything.
In the aggregate it fell 2nd to worst, moderately-strongly below average.
This to me was the most boring and average in the tasting. I actually guessed this correctly, the only one I was correct on. Bitter malt present. Not particularly "rich" or hoppy or anything.
In the aggregate it fell 2nd to worst, moderately-strongly below average.
Tried
on 26 Feb 2015
at 00:25
3.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 2
Texture 2
Overall 1.5
from a bottle can smell big dull ipa clear over here. a darker ipa fer sure but certainly not black. wew, packs a pine flavored spruce ipa impact fer sure. strong bitter almost astringent after taste following each swig. on style except for that sharp astringent palate on the finish. yes, rudeness borders on double ipa or triple territory with its rude penetrating ipa finish, wew. difficult to absorb.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Feb 2015
at 18:24
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
This is poured into a snifter.
The appearance was a nice looking hazy dark amber color with a slim finger’s worth of white foamy head that dissipated immediately. Barely any lacing appeared.
The smell had a full malty caramel sweetness with an adequate sticky vanilla leading to a decent dry hoppy spiced tobacco aroma.
The taste was mainly sweet with the tobacco here and there to balance. There’s a super dry sticky caramel aftertaste leading to a dry sticky finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a medium on the body with a fairly decent sessionability about it. It’s pretty dry as it rolls across my tongue.
Overall, I say it was a decent American Barleywine. The hops seemed to be in the right place for an American Barleywine. However, it was a bit dryer than most barleywines.
The appearance was a nice looking hazy dark amber color with a slim finger’s worth of white foamy head that dissipated immediately. Barely any lacing appeared.
The smell had a full malty caramel sweetness with an adequate sticky vanilla leading to a decent dry hoppy spiced tobacco aroma.
The taste was mainly sweet with the tobacco here and there to balance. There’s a super dry sticky caramel aftertaste leading to a dry sticky finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a medium on the body with a fairly decent sessionability about it. It’s pretty dry as it rolls across my tongue.
Overall, I say it was a decent American Barleywine. The hops seemed to be in the right place for an American Barleywine. However, it was a bit dryer than most barleywines.
Tried
from Can
on 14 Feb 2015
at 22:40
5.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Oh my, from a bottle this is a really dark beer with a thin choko moose head. Big coffee flavors fer sure on the first bite. Can make you think you are drinken a cold coffee from outside of western PA around groundhog day. Does not necessarily smell like the way it tastes. Smells like very light coffee on the nose. Yes, roll up the ol’ sleeves dude. Does have a bitter coffee thing on the finish, go figger.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Feb 2015
at 17:26