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
