5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4
Big thanks to LilBeerDoctor for helping me procure this sample! Smell is simply clean. Nice looking darker beer. Taste starts off like wet roasty old campfire wood. This elevates to a medium back of throat bitterness. Later, this beer comes across almost like an ESB or sumthin. A smoother bitter drink that possesses a creamy CO2 feel. Mild at times and at other times a bit more personality. Finish is somewhat hoppy for lack of a better description. Lots of personality on the finish too, has a little more wake up than most nut browns. Very glad to have had the chance to taste this, thanks LilBeerDoctor, you rock!
Tried
on 19 Mar 2010
at 05:55
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
12oz bottle pours a translucent, dark brown with a creamy, lacing, slightly beige head. Aroma is sweet, malty, fruity (apples and pears). Flavor is very nice, a nice mild chocolate flavor comes through on the front, light brown sugar, light caramel, light nuts. Sweet malts. A little apple flavor lurking in the background. Finish is medium bodied and sweet. An easy drinker, you could drink this all night. Nose lacks a bit, but the flavor makes up for it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Mar 2010
at 17:53
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
A golden blonde ale with a thick off white head. A light hoppy aroma with light vegetable notes, a bit of fruity esters. In mouth, a light crisp APA with herbal hops, light lingering bitterness, not bad but nothing special. Bottle at Lucky’s Logan Airport, Dec. 28 2009.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Jan 2010
at 19:49
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
12oz bottle pours a fizzy, transparent gold with a thin, clumping white head. Aroma is sweet, grassy, biscuits, pale malts, a little citrus zing. Flavor is a bit bland, a little flabby, some light sweetness, a little grassy, white bread. Finish is watery.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Dec 2009
at 17:54
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
12oz bottle pours a translucent, deep caramel brown with a frothy, creamy slightly tan head. The beer settles like a glass of Guinness. Very nice looking. Aroma is fairly mild, some distinct caramel sweetness, a little dusty, very earthy, a touch peaty. Flavor is big on the sweetness up front, caramel, toasted malts, sweet malts, a touch of orange. Finish is a little watery with both some lasting sweetness and some lasting bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Dec 2009
at 17:10
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
12oz bottle pours a translucent copper amber with a thin, creamy white head. Aroma is a little understated, some light maltiness, crackers, lemons and some orange zest. The hops come through better in the flavor, a little piney, some lemons, with a strong malt back bone, caramel, sweet dough, some toasted grains, nice sweet malts. Finish is medium bodied and smooth. Kick a little more into the nose and you’d have something very very nice. Even as is, I think this is underrated.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Dec 2009
at 15:50
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
not sure if i would have albeled this an oktoberfest/marzen, but a nice easy beer that proved to be good for a session. abv is not high enough to be a factor, and the taste was good enough to last through six bottles and not get sick of it. good malt/ hop balance, no real distinguishing flavors or tastes, some yeasty malt notes, not sweet like a true marzen, but out of 6 other beers i kept going back to this one.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Dec 2009
at 06:35
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pours mahogany with deep ruby red edges and thin tan head. The aroma has malt roastiness, caramel malts, earthiness and a touch of burnt malts. The taste is pretty full with some carbonation enhanced roast and malts moving into burnt malt notes and some earthiness. The burnt notes sort of lead the flavor charge with additional hints of chocolate murmuring up from time to time. After a few minutes the aroma seems to have faded away too just about nothing.
Tried
on 29 Nov 2009
at 19:40
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
A deep dark stout with a thick moka head. In aroma, a nice sweet milk chocolate bar, with light British hops. In mouth, a hoppy stout with bitter chocolate, intense English hops, herbal. Rich and smooth bodied. Tasted Nov. 21 2009, with MartinT. Merci Martin!
Tried
on 28 Nov 2009
at 20:05
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
13th August 2008. Opaque black beer, no head., only a little carbonation. Silky smoothness, presumably from the oatmeal. Medium toasted malt and with a bitterish coffee finish. The silky palate keeps the score up on this one.
Tried
on 17 Nov 2009
at 16:18