 Cletus (5057), Connecticut, USA
| 3.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 3/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
Nov 2, 2007 Expensive bottle coutresy of hopscotch. Pours dark brown with some fizzy tan bubbles. Smells of sour cherries, some nuttiness and residual sugar. Tastes of creamy malt, cherries, lots of tarte qualities. Mouthfeel is thick and velvety with a nutty sugary finish. I liked this one quite a bit.
¾ (4999), Colorado, USA
| 2.7 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 2/5 | 5/10 | 3/5 | 11/20 |
Aug 5, 2008 500ml bottle. Pours still and flat, but with high viscosity and intimidating thickness. Murky brown in color. Nose is big, sticky maple and bacon scented bourbon, with a softer malt/brad/bread/plum note. Flavor is essentially the same: sticky, big, sweet maple and bread malts, some overripe/moldy apples and plums, some sweet tobacco juice, wet bran, etc. Way too sweet, difficult to drink, difficult to even find polite words for such a messy beer.
chriso (4796), London, Greater London, England
| 3.3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 2/5 | 7/10 | 2/5 | 14/20 |
Feb 4, 2006 Bottle at the GBBF White Horse Babblebelt bash. Odd name, odd beer. Murky brown colour. Woody, maderised aroma. Very vinous flavour. Sweet, but there’s some acidity to prevent it being too cloying. Tasted more like sherry than beer. Distinctly oxidised. All this adds up to an unusual mouthfeel that I personally didn’t find too appealing, although there’s no denying this is an intriguing beer.
anders37 (4736), Malmö, Sweden
| 4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
Jun 3, 2009 Bottle. Vintage 2005. Pours a clear amber color with a small off-white head. Has a sweet malty dark fruit and caramel aroma with some alcoholic hints. Smooth sweetish malty dark fruit and caramel flavor. Has a fruity malty warming dark fruit flavor with some hints of alcohol and caramel in the aftertaste. Very nice.
DocLock (4648), Lower Pottsgrove, Pennsylvania, USA
| 3.3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 3/5 | 6/10 | 3/5 | 13/20 |
Feb 28, 2008 Bottle from State Line. Pours turbid copper with minimal off-white head. The aroma is caramel malt, raisins, figs, mild spices, berries, and cognac. Tastes extremely sweet, in fact, the initlal dregs are very cloyingly sweet and I found it hard to continue until I let this one warm up a bit. By then, the heat vapors had emerged somewhat, so I drank it as a sort of Irish Mist/beer hybrid. The taste profile isn’t bad, but it was hard to get past the cloying sweetness. I think mixing this with a Cantillon would cause the Earth to explode or something.
Ernest (4491), Boulder, Colorado, USA
| 2.4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 5/10 | 2/5 | 5/10 | 2/5 | 10/20 |
Oct 14, 2007 Bottle. No head (still). Body is hazy dark amber. Aroma is moderately malty (caramel, molasses), with notes of walnut shells, sherry, maple syrup, raisin, wood, alcohol. Flavor is heavily sweet. Finish is moderately sweet, lightly acidic. Medium to full body, oily/syrupy texture, flat carbonation, lightly to moderately alcoholic. Don’t know quite what to say...try as I might, I can’t find anything particularly enjoyable about it. The fancy bottle and high price don’t sway me...to my senses it’s little more than an old, syrupy sweet, flat, oxidized beer.
HenrikSoegaard (4362), Randers, Denmark
| 3.5 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 13/20 |
Nov 28, 2008 Bottle. Frothy fair mostly deminishing head. Red-amber colour. Heavy malty and hoppy aroma. Sherry-like. Moderate sweet and light bitter flavopr. Burnt almond and licorice dominating. Average finsh. Creamy palate but too alcoholic. Tastes more like mead than barleywine.
bhensonb (4335), Woodland, California, USA
| 4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 17/20 |
Mar 16, 2009 Bottle shared by Marcus. Really appreciated. Brilliant ruby copper color with no head. Aromas of fruit, tobacco and leather. It’s got floaties! [small ones] Then the aroma goes towards plums. Now I can imagine chocolate. Super full bodied. Hardly any carbonation. Flavor is medium sweet, and then confusing: mapley? dates? Chocolate? And there’s a lot more. This is what SA’s Tripple Bock should hae been. It’s wonderful. Just gets better and better.
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