6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7.5
Burka Liquors, DC 12oz ($1.85): Pours an off-white head over a copper body. Aroma is of a variety of hops: you got citrus, floral, and pine notes in there. The taste has a good amount of bitterness. Pine and citrus present. Leaves some aftertaste, but is not excessively bitter through the finish. Minimal malts in there, thus a little light bodied. Not a brutal IPA, but an interesting one.
Tried
on 18 Mar 2011
at 08:10
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Served on draft at Michael’s Bistro in Charlottesville, VA. Pours a very dark color, appearing opaque in the glass. Small sized creamy tan head. Decent head retention and lacing. Aroma of chocolate, roasted malts, bitter coffee. The taste is chocolate, bitter roasted malts, bitter coffee, a milky note, a tart cherry note in the finish. Lingering hop bitterness. Medium bodied. Quite drinkable.
Tried
from Draft
on 01 Mar 2011
at 19:25
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at Paul and Ryan’s tasting. Pours black. Nose of bread, biscuit, bourbon and buttered toast. Taste of chocolate malt, toffee, bourbon and vanilla.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Feb 2011
at 20:09
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Served on draft at Beer Run in Charlottesville, VA. Pours a clear copper color with a medium head. Fair head retention and lacing. Aroma of honey, grainy notes, nuts and a floral finish. The taste is pale grainy malts, big floral notes, a faint bit of honey, and tart plum and citrus. Medium bodied.
Tried
from Draft
on 20 Feb 2011
at 15:15
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Served on draft at Timberwood Grill in Charlottesville, VA. Pours a hazy copper color with a medium frothy tan head. Good head retention and lacing. Aroma of toffee, caramel and a faint earthy smokiness. The taste is toasted malts, toffee, caramel and a bitter hop finish. Medium bodied.
Tried
from Draft
on 19 Jan 2011
at 17:01
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
12 ounce bottle from Wine Warehouse in Charlottesville, VA, opened 1/10/10. Pours a dark ruby color with a medium tan head. Decent head retention and lacing. Aroma of tart malty notes along with some roast and chocolate. The taste is chocolate, roast, berries, bitter hop finish. Medium bodied. Not bad, but the tartness does seem like its not supposed to be there.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jan 2011
at 21:16
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
12 ounce bottle from Whole Foods Market, Charlottesville, VA. Pours a slighty hazy copper color with a medium sized offwhite creamy head. Decent head retention and lacing. Aroma of big resiny and tropical hops with some toffee notes. The taste is big hop notes... citrus, melon, pine, and a toffeeish finish. Medium-full bodied. Drinks more like a DIPA than an IPA. Good beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Jan 2011
at 19:29
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
A golden ale wit a thin white head. In aroma, a nice mix of Belgian fruity esters and light pumpkin spices, light herbal notes. In mouth, a smooth Belgian ale with good balance of spices, cinnamon predominating, cloves, a bit of cardamom, quite nice. On tap at RFD, Sept. 18 2010.
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Nov 2010
at 14:18
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
HUGE 32oz pour at Max’s in Baltimore. Pours a lightly viscous, opaque black with a creamy, lasting white head. Nose is nice, brown sugar, vanilla, oak, malts, coffee, toasted bread. Really sings as a whole. Flavor is sweet, caramel, milk chocolate, malt candy, vanilla bean, oak, coffee. Super smooth. Full bodied, smooth, oak finish. Really nice.
Tried
from Can
on 01 Nov 2010
at 06:23
6.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
On tap somewhere in deleware pours a copper color with thin head. Taste slight Caramel malt slight hops and not a lot of backbone. Fine
Tried
from Draft
on 28 Oct 2010
at 14:21