 TheBeerLover (1013), DC Metro Area, USA
Oct 19, 2007
750 ml bottle of the 2006 vintage. Pours to a beautiful, deep ruby red color, with a tall, thick, creamy, tan head, and a lively carbonation. The nose on this beer is excellent, with good aromas of pale and sweet malts, paired with estery/plummy fruit, and piney hop aromas. The palate is firm, with good flavors of pale and caramel malt, paired with really delcious, fruity flavor, and some citrus/piney hop flavor. This beer finishes with more really great pale and carmel malt flavors with estery fruit, then ends with a big, long, smack of piney hop bitterness, and a lightly warming edge that lingers. A really big, bold, beautiful American Red/Amber ale, that has big aromas and flavors of malt, fruit, and hops. Impressive beer.
fonefan (5362), Ulfborg, Denmark
Nov 18, 2008 <b>Bottle 75cl. @ TFODRBSG 2008, Ulfborg, Denmark</b><br />Light unclear medium to dark red amber color with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, light beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, caramel, heavy hoppy, grass, orange. Flavor is moderate to heavey sweet and bitter with a long to average duration. Body is medium to full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. Very nice ;0)) (230808)
yngwie (3695), Kristiansand, Norway
Oct 27, 2008 Bottle, thx to Dedollewaitor. It pours an unclear, amber body under a dense beige head. Sugary-sweet on the nose, with beefstock and piney, resiny and tropical-fruity hops. The flavor is sweet and malty too, with beefstock, some spicyness and piney hops giving decent bitterness. Full-bodied, almost sticky, slightly warming and effervescent. Bitter end. A lovely and demanding beer combining sweetness, warmth and bitterness nicely. (080823)
Pastor (293), Maine, USA
Oct 25, 2008 Bottle poured into a Maudite snifter produced a finger worth of off white head that goes to a thick lace. All this is on top of a blood read body ale
The aromas are very malt forward the hops are all but gone now from the nose. What is left is a lot of dark fruits and spice in the aromas
The flavor of sweet malt and dark fruits bust right out of this one. A great smooth sipper really enjoyable
I drink this again if it was around but I don’t expect to see it anymore. great drinking experience all around
yobdoog (414), Montclair NJ - Woodridge NY, New York, USA
Oct 19, 2008 Shared between two. By the time we got to the bottom, oh man. So good but very strong. Had a hint of wood funky almost sour but more on the sweet fruity side. Rich body with hints of vanilla and brown sugar. Taste also has a pleasant almond taste. I really enjoyed this one.
mcbackus (677), Merritt Island, Florida, USA
Oct 19, 2008 bottle from VAC: pours a very dark dirty brown, huge off white head good lacing. aroma is very nice full of good fruits both dark and fresh great cherry and funky yeast. flavour are a little bit of old hops and lots of sugary candy malts tast not as good as the nose.
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