Bottle poured black with a light brown head and average lacing.
Aromas of coffee, chocolate and roasted malts with a nice nosing of hop spices.
Flavors are bitter chocolates with coffee, fig and dates. A hint of hops with roasty and subtle wood notes.
The Finish; Bitter coffee and chocolate flavors really come through, all other flavors peek in but do not hang around.
Rate = 7
Bottle pours a clear rosie amber color with a light tan head with fair lacing.
Aromas are hoppy with sweet toffee notes with hints of caramel.
Bitter sweet toffee flavors, with spicy hop and citrus notes.
The Finish; Begins bright, hoppy, fruity and quickly transitions to toffee, malty notes with a bitter finish. Big Foot has always aged nicely, as with this years beer, it could use some aging.
Rate = 8
Bottle poured a rich amber color with a tan head with light lacing.
Aromas of carmel, toffee and hops with a subtle hint of maple.
Flavors of maple, toffee and bitter citrus. Notes of toasted grains and subtle hints of berries.
The Finish; Begins with strong maple notes that fade quickly into bitter fruity notes. Midway through dry bitter toffee and carmel flavors peek in with a dry bitter citrus and woody finish.
Rate = 7
Bottle poured a deep rich amber color with tan head with fair lacing.
Light aromas if citrus and berry fruit, subtle sweet toffee notes.
Flavors of bitter sweet fruit and toasty toffee notes. Subtle notes of currant berry and dry maltyness.
The Finish; Starts subtly sweet, with light toffee notes, dry, bitter and slightly sour berry flavors come out about midway through. Back end leaves a dry fruity taste with a bitter grapefruit feel to the mouth.
Rate = 8
Bottle poured black with a brown head that settles to a solid ring around the glass with great lacing.
Aromas of malts, hops and coffee and some citrus notes.
Up front flavors are coffee, chocolate, bitter roasted malts. Hoppy spices and hints of currant berry, fig and subtle notes of anise.
The Finish; bitter and dry coffee notes with a very slight sourness, slightly fizzy across the tung. A lot of very subtle flavors but stay just out of my reach to attempt identification, bitter keeps hitting throughout. As it warmed up some I could pick out more of the chocolates.
Rate = 8
Bottle pours a deep copper color with a heavy light brown head that settles very slowly fair lacing.
Aromas of citrus, subtle tropical fruit notes with a dose of maltyness, very subtle toffee notes.
Flavors of bitter sweet malts and hoppy citrus notes trade back and fourth.
The Finish; Malts appear dominant then hops with a bitter fruityness, nice mouth feel. The beer settles into a balance between the malts and hops which makes for an enjoyable beer. Citrus notes carry on at the end with good bitterness and a subtle dry finish!
Rate = 8
Bottle poured a light copper color with a nice creamed color head and nice lacing.
Aromas are hoppy with tropical fruit notes, hints of grain with subtle grassy notes.
Flavores are strong hops, dry tropical fruits, some notes of apricot and citrus with bitter sweet end.
The Finish; Hops up front, good body with dry fruityness trailed by bitter malts and sweet citrus notes.
Rate = 8
Can pours black, minimal tan head with good lacing.
Roasted caramel aromas, subtle maltyness with hints if spice and hops.
Flavors are of bitter malts, dark chocolate subtle coffee notes and a dry hoppyness and a hint of sweet dark fruit.
The Finish; Classic porter style...dry bitter malt flavors with some of the hops standing out more in the middle! Subtlety sweet fig notes in the end, dry and bitter.
Rate = 7
Bottle poured an amber color with a significant light tan head that slowly settles, with insignificant lacing.
Aromas of malts and hops with notes of honey.
Flavors are malty with bitter hops and subtle notes of honey, apricot with very subtle flower notes.
The Finish; subtle bitter malts, and hoppy spices. Sweet notes of honey and a dry finish.
Rated = 7
Can pours the color if honey with a low white head of fine bubbles that settle into a nice ring of good lacing.
Aroma of citrus, bitter malts, subtle apricot and a hint of sweet toffee notes.
Flavors are malty with a mild bitterness, spicy hop notes with subtle dried apricot and flowery notes.
The Finish; citrus and malts with subtle sweetness stand out. Then transitions into bitter sweet light fruityness notes that finishes dry.
Rate = 7
Bottle pours a slightly hazy copper color with a solid off white head that settled fairly quickly to a ring if fine bubbles and fair lacing.
Aromas of citrus and tropical fruit, subtle malty notes and spice.
Flavors are bitter grapefruit, citrus (lemon) and subtle sweet tropical fruit notes. Bitter malts and hops.
The Finish; bitter and sweet carry on thought with a dry finish, good fruity undertones and body.
Rate = 9
Bottle pours black, dark tan ring develops around the glass with faire lacing.
Sweet malty aromas with subtle toasted wood notes and a hint of hop spices.
Sweet dark fruit flavors of cherries, rains, fig and dates. Molasses and honey notes with subtle spiciness.
The Finish; sweet throughout, dark fruit flavors tag along with the sweetness well, nice mouth feel with subtle toastyness and hints of wood, finishes bitter sweet and warm...At 18.2% abv!
Rate = 10, must explain...generally to sweet for my liking but there is a lot going on with this beer, and for having 18.2% abv the flavors are there to pick out if you have the palate! I have rated this a 10 due to what has been accomplished with the flavors. My feeling is this is an English style Imperial Stout/Barleywine.
Bottle poured the color and appearance of honey with a white head that settles fairly quickly to a nice curtin of lacing.
Aromas are of honey and subtle toffee notes.
Flavors of toasted honey with bitter grapefruit notes and hints of spices.
The Finish; notes of honey carry throughout, light bitterness with hints of citrus. Very light and dry, mouth feel is a little fizzy but not obtrusive.
Rated = 8
Bottle purse a crisp clear copper color with a off white head that settled fairly quickly to a ring if solid lacing.
Aromas are of sweet tropical fruit, subtle citrus notes with some toastyness and spice.
Flavors are bitter apricot, grapefruit with sweet notes of honey. Bitter maltyness!
The Finish; starts out light and fruity with bitter citrus notes throughout, malts come in midway through for a nice mouth feel and end with a dry, bitter tropical flavors.
Rated = 9
Bottle pours a clear ruby color with no head, fine bubbles collect around the perimeter of the snifter. Minimal lacing...the viscosity is notable down the side of the snifter while tilted.
Aromas of toffee, alcohol and spicy malts.
Flavors are toffee, carmel, molasses, cherries with hints of citrus and wood notes, warm alcohol throughout.
The Finish; at 16.45% abv it's expected to notice the alcohol but it's dosent dominate the other flavors. Sweet and malty...mouth feel is decadent...a lot going on, fairly balanced. Finishes sweet, dry and boozy!
Rated = 10
Bottle pours black with a low dark brown head and good lacing.
Aromas of fig, sweet chocolate, and cherries. There is a boozyness and toasty notes with hints of coffee.
Flavors are strong sweet maltyness, sweet dark fruit (fig, cherries and dates), coffee, notes of vanilla and oak. Feel the bitterness and dry hoppyness on the toung. Hints if toffee...subtle creme brulee notes!
Finish; Big!...sweet!...Dark fruit! Coffee hits first with chocolate notes, sweetness comes in and stays throughout. Dark fruit dominate in the middle and to the end. The barrel come in towards the end. This is a big beer...aging might mellow it out...but might just make it sweeter! I'll find out in two, three and four years!!!...or more.
Can poured black with a light brown head that slowly settles to a nice foaming ring with good lacing.
Aromas are malty, toasted malt notes, subtle molasses sweetness with hints of hops.
Flavors are of rotated bitter malts, very subtle citrus notes with a dry hoppy bite at end.
Finish; a mix between a brown and a pale ale. There is a sweetness that carries throughout with a brown ale toastyness and an IPA hoppyness. Good beer for a "pickanick", not quite a session beer but very close!
Rated = 6
Bottle poured a slight hazy copper color with a slight white head that settled quickly to a ring of good lacing.
Aromas of tropical fruit and malts with citrus notes and pine.
Bitter malty flavors with numbing citrus notes, subtle toffee undertones with hints if cherries!
Finish; bitter throughout....citrus and tropical flavors stick out very subtle sweet toffee flavors poke in, in the middle. It ends "bitter" and dry with a numbing sensation at the back of the tongue.
Rated - 7
Poured a slightly hazy copper color with a significant white head that settled slowly and ends with good lacing.
Aromas of citrus, apricots, spicy hops, subtle sweet toffee notes with a hint of malts.
Grapefruit flavors with bitter malty overtones light fruit notes throughout.
Finish; strong on citrus, malty...solid body, almost to bitter...but not! Fruity! Rated-8
Bottle poured a hazy brown with a cooper hue, light brown head that settled, lacing is solid.
Aromas of toffee, oak and peat with notes of hops and subtle maltyness.
Peated Scotch Whisky flavors up front, spicy wood notes follow with hops and bitter malts trailing.
The Finish - It is like drinking a Scotch Whisky in the beginning then transitions to an Imperial IPA. I was slow coming around to this beer but have come to love it...very different but not too far.
Rated - 10
Bottle pours black, minimal dark brown head, fair lacing...with the viscose pore I assumed the lacing would be significantly more.
Aromas of boozy dark fruit (fig, cherries, prunes) subtle hop spices, smoke with woody notes.
Sweet strong flavors of fig, rains, dates and alcohol. There are woody undertones with a spicy molasses wang.
The Finish - very sweet...very boozy...allot of dark fruit notes. Reminiscent to the Sam Adams triple boch I had years ago.
Bottle poured a hazy copper color with a mild white head with fine bubbles that settled quickly, fair lacing. Viscosity was notable!
Aromas of citrus and apricot with a malty backbone, subtle spiciness and pine notes.
Strong citrus flavors and bitter maltyness, subtle grass, pine and toffee notes.
Bottle poured black with a brown, slight head and small lacing that clings well to the glass.
Aromas of vanilla and chocolate with subtle notes of wood and maple. Undertones of hops and spices. Creme-brulee comes to mind!
Vanilla flavors with chocolate, notes of wood and cherry, bitter maple undertones...subtle hop flavors.
The Finish - Very strong creme-brulee notes. It is on the sweeter side but with a bitter malty backbone. Finishes dry and creamy! Great desert beer.
Rated - 9
