 Diogène (543), Gatineau, Quebec, Canada
Jun 4, 2009 Brown with a thin head, average retention. Aroma is very sweet with maple syrup, wood, alcohol and hops. Flavor is also very sweet with a lot of maple syrup and wood, caramel, fruits and hops. Full body with a liquorous mouthfeel. Excellent!
anders37 (4516), Malmö, Sweden
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.
Beerdedone (1873), Croydon, Pennsylvania, USA
May 23, 2009 Bottle. Pours a ruby/copper color with no head. Aroma was sweet and boozy with dried fruit, vanilla, caramel, port, and has a hint of brown sugar. Flavor was silky smooth and quite sweet with caramel, brown sugar, dried fruit, raisins, port and alcohol with a sticky full body. Decent but to expensive.
Papsoe (14613), Frederiksberg, Denmark
May 11, 2009 Bottle 50 cl. Courtesy of Ungstrup. Vintage 2005. Clear amber golden with absolutely no head. Intense aroma of overripe fruit and honey - almost mead-like in character with the alcohol already showing in the nose. Very full-bodied, completely flat, intense accents of nuts, caramel flower pollen and overripe fruit - perhaps a little licorice also. No bitterness but a warming alcohol finish. 220309
BOLTZ7555 (1053), Phoenix, Arizona, USA
May 2, 2009 Bottle shared by rustychiles...THANKS RUSTY!!! Not sure how I forgot to enter in this rating (although quite a few brews were presented @ the Hellbilly Tasting!!! Maple syrup pour with absolutely no head and minimal carbonation. Amazingly sweet...caramel, molasses, raisin, vanilla, and maybe even a hint of chocolate. Coats the palate like varnish on oak...interesting.
kiefdog (1534), Tampa, Florida, USA
Apr 14, 2009 2004 vintage bottle from Beverage Castle (Tampa, FL). Pours a syrupy, menacing tobacco brown color with no head. Very light to no carbonation, but a slight pop from the bottle when cracked. Aroma is sweet and boozy with a complex array of ripe dark fruits, rum-soaked raisins, brown sugar, molasses, vanilla, wood, some vinous qualities. Flavor is sweet and syrupy with sweet toffee, caramel, ripe dark fruit, overripe apple, vanilla, wood, brown sugar, bourbon-like character. Generally medium body with a syrupy sweet, and strongly alcohol finish.
hellbilly (1492), scottsdale über alles, Arizona, USA
Apr 14, 2009 2005 bottle forced on the phx crew by rustychiles...
rusty brown colored and absolutely still.
it smells sticky... more exactly, it smells like oxidized barley wine mixed with tawny port... vinous, hot, chocolate, soy sauce, fig and vanilla.
it tastes the same with the addition of some toasted nuts and coffee... along with being obscenely sweet and beyond rich into seizure territory.
thick cloying mouth feel is not helped out by the lack of bubbles.
interesting. not necessarily good though. 8/4/3/2/10/2.7
MiP (8793), Sønderborg, Denmark
Apr 1, 2009 2005 bottle, 4 years old. Gold print, 13.5%. Vinous aroma, sweet, but with some roughness to it. Almost clear dark amber colour. The flavour starts off a little sweet. Has some cookie sweetness, a little spice. The finish has a vinous bitterness. As from grape peel. The flavour is also vinous, port-like. Syrupy mouthfeel. A little alcohol burn in the finish. Interesting, but not something I enjoy immensely.
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