 mgermani (621), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Jul 13, 2008
Pours a cloudy orange with no head or lace. Aroma is nice and sweet, very promising. Nice bite at the start of the sip, but the floor drops out from underneath - where’s that wonderful malty sweetness that I detected in the aroma? Nice bitter finish, warm alcohol notes, overall balanced but that moment when the malt is supposed to kick in never arrives. Good carbonation, thinnish body. This is a good beer, and a strong beer (and isn’t afraid to show it) but I find it a tad watery, and wish that it delivered a maltier punch.
BigBeer45 (489), Troy, Michigan, USA
Oct 1, 2008 Bottle from Andersons in Toledo, BBD 3-1-08, pours a light amber and honey browns, some haze or cloudiness, had some sediment chunks pour from the bottle, some off-white bubbles that formed a small ring, aromas of caramel, toasted malt and some earthiness, flavors of light caramel, malt sweetness, bread, toasted malt, some yeast, some alcohol taste in the background but it does not grow as the ale warms which is good, surprised to get this with a 7.5% beer, a faint fruit flavor of prunes, sort of a disappointment, I was expecting something more, yes, it is past the BBD by three months or so, I may try another bottle to compare.
bookman10 (13), Osseo, Minnesota, USA
Oct 1, 2008 This is a good one. An interesting flavor that changes over time (if you’re able to set some aside, that is!). Fruity, sweet, tart, malty. Very pretty in a glass--dark red, almost orange-brown in color with floating yeast from the bottle conditioning. One of my favorites.
Wulfstan (481), California, USA
Sep 23, 2008 This was an utter disappointment. Brownish amber and slightly murky, it had a smallish off-white head soon thinning to aring and wispy top. The smell is fruit, mainly old apples, stewed prunes, bread crust, leaves. The taste was worse, old, leaves, old apples, sharp, rough alcoholic quality, and overall very flat in character. It seemed "old" in a bad way.
faroeviking (4418), Faroese Autonomous Beer Republic, Denmark
Sep 18, 2008 Botella. Vintage 2006. Hazy copper brown colour. Aroma of toasty caramel and malt with dark fruits. Nice mouthfeel. the flavour has a good sweet maltiness with caramel, dark fruits, some toffee and some alcohol. Tasty brew indeed.
Indulgence (124), Ajo, Arizona, USA
Sep 16, 2008 2008 vintage: the second Coopers beer for me, I have had the brown ale a while back, but this time I am going for the gonzo Cooper. This vintage ale has a dark reddish orange hazy look, it is on the border to becoming opaque as it blocks a majority of the light, fine effers from the bottle conditioning, aromas are malty and contain highlites of candied dried fruits like some apricots, plums, raisins and cherries, some hops intrude when you shake things up, mostly yeast esters and it is nicely complex, the palate is very creamy and tingly and the finish is long and the very end, there is a tinge of bittering right that gives it a dry tart cherry vanilla chapstick kind of finish. It is unique and I like it.
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