8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Big 16oz pour at Max’s in Baltimore. Pours a lightly viscous, opaque black with one ring of yellow head. Really great nose, nutty, coffee, malty, brown sugar, toast, light pepper, molasses. Flavor is sweet, brown sugar, vanilla, coffee grounds, toast, dark malts, molasses. A really great blend of flavors. Full bodied, smooth, vanilla, toasty finish.
Tried
on 23 Oct 2011
at 17:53
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
3oz pour at Max’s is a hazy, nut brown with some thin white head. Nose is sweet, honey, a little bourbon, oranges. Flavor is sweet, caramel, vanilla, a little boozy, cookie dough, orange zest. Full bodied, warming finish. Really nice.
Tried
on 18 Oct 2011
at 17:44
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottled. A hazy amber beer with an off-white head. The aroma has notes of fruits - especially lemons and limes. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, caramel, straw, and lemons, leading to a bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Oct 2011
at 13:05
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Served on draft at Beer Run in Charlottesville, VA. Pours a clear copper color with a thin creamy offwhite head. Decent head retention. Aroma of pumpkin spices and herbal hops. The taste is pumpkin, pumpkin spices and a hoppy finish. Thin-medium bodied. Seems a little hollow... missing something. A little bit too hoppy. Soft carbonation.
Tried
from Draft
on 01 Oct 2011
at 16:27
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Staff recommendation at Churchkey. Not a bad pumpkin beer, the spice outweighs the squash, and it doesn’t taste like pumpkin pie.
Tried
on 01 Oct 2011
at 07:24
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottled. A hazy amber beer with an off-white head. The aroma has notes of malt and caramel. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, hay, and elderflowers.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Sep 2011
at 14:20
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Hazy deep copper coloured body with a bronze glow and a nice, smallish, one centimetre tall tan head. Aroma of fresh grassy and floral hops, some light sweetness, a good dose of malt and a touch of alcohol. Medium-bodied; Assertive earthy and floral hops at first with a good but slightly mellow malt backbone with a nice earthy pungent caramel and toffee sweetness. Aftertaste shows some complexity from the toasted sugars, but not enough from the hops especially and the malt. Overall, a nice beer, not good or great, but a nice attempt at the style. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Norm’s in Vienna, Virginia on 30-July-2011 sampled at home in Washington on 13-September-2011.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Sep 2011
at 22:46
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
750 mL bottle from Beer Run in Charlottesville, VA, opened 7/26/11. Bottle 704 of 1150. Pours a dark brown color with not much of a head. Aroma of big bourbon notes, vanilla, maple, chocolate anda faint nuttiness. The taste is bourbon, cocoa, vanilla, maple, faint wood notes and faint hops in the finish. Medium-full bodied. Quite tasty. Nice beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Aug 2011
at 13:30
8.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
750 mL bottle from Beer Run in Charlottesville, VA, opened 7/20/11. Bottle 171 of 1200. Pours a clear medium red color with a medium sized fizzy tan head. Decent head retention and lacing. Aroma of oak and big rum notes along with faint stone fruits, hops and vanilla. The taste is toasted malts, rum, wood, plum, vanilla, maple, faint bitter hops in the finish. Medium bodied. This beer probably isn’t as intrinsically good as I’m going to rate it but this is made just to my liking. If it weren’t $15 a bottle, I’d get a case.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Aug 2011
at 13:22
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Served on draft at Beer Run in Charlottesville, VA on 7/13/11. Pours a reddish dark brown color with a medium sized creamy tan head. Good head retention and lacing. Aroma of bourbon, wood, maple, roasted malts, chocolate, faint bitter hops, faint booze. The taste is roasted malts, bourbon, chocolate, booze and minty hops. Medium bodied.
Tried
from Draft
on 07 Aug 2011
at 12:09