Atlantic Foonf Zane Auld Ale

Brewed by Atlantic Brewing Company
Style: Old Ale
Bar Harbor, Maine USA

(22oz bottle, thanks wickedpete) Small beige head atop clear dark amber body. Aroma is moderately sweet, caramel, raisin, some prune, herbal. Taste is moderately sweet, caramel, raisin/plum, light alcohol. Medium body, some stickiness, undercarbonated.

Off-white foamy head covers the clearish brown hue. Beany dark malts offer syrupy leanings. DMS overshadows pretty much any flavour with its strong vegetal contrefort. Quite sparkling carbonation, light bodied. Unnoticeable hop character and just sweet, vanilla and candied raspberries base. One to skip.

Bottle sampled on 9/20/06: Pours a clear bright copper with a thin ring of wispy white head. Sweet, toasty, bready malty aroma has a good balance of piny hops. Body starts sweet and toasty with good caramel malty presence and a nice, bitter balance. A smooth and enjoyable old ale.

Pours copper with a thin white head. Smells of raisins, earthy, some rosey hints. Tastes caramelly and fruity with an earthy finish.

Any first impressions?
-A thin slice of foam hugs the glass around the orangey red.
-Fruity beans and roasted maltiness don’t necessarily harmonize in the nose.
-Fruity vanilla sweetness and those beans once again bother the sip.
-An incongruous, slick maltiness remains drinkable.

What if you dig deeper?
-Alcohol nudges the back of the tongue.
-Cherry fruitiness staggers within.
-A feeble old ale which either has some intrinsic problems, or which severely paled in comparison to the Southampton 10th Anniversary Old Ale which he had just before. 2.7/5

Bottle from the brewery.

Another bomber, aged over 6 months, revealed a much more cohesive flavor, and no unpleasantries. Dark fruit and vanilla formed a very drinkable flavor profile, and maltiness created a chewy mouthfeel. A pleasant and quaffable pint of old ale. 3.3/5

Red cognac ale with a thin white head. Aroma of boiled beans and foonf! In mouth, a bland malt with no hops, chlorine. Not very good...infected bottle? Enjoyed with the Mtl Crew Sept. 9, 2006.

Poured a clear dark amber color. Thick sweet caramel malty aroma. Brown sugar and caramel malt. Sweet has a decent taste but nothing special going on. Just sweet malt.

Bomber aged about 18 or so months, drunk early 2008. Another pale old ale, this one being a deep amber, with a wispy white head and a clear filtered body. Quite estery in the nose, with peach, apple and other fruits presenting themselves. They are swallowed by a strongly malty vanilla-honey-almond note that leads to a light mustiness (bottling line bacteria?) that is apparent in many of Atlantics older bottles. The flavor is very sweet and underattenuated, with a big brace of honey, maple and vanilla cream-like sugars that are only (somewhat) kept from cloying the palate by the weak, thinned-out mouthfeel and low carbonation. Oxidation and some cidery/vinegary notes begin to creep in on the finish, while crackery/crusty malts dry out the finish somewhat. Alcohol is well-concealed. Could do without the spicy phenols too (clove mainly).