 travita (1941), Frisco, Texas, USA
| 3.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 8/10 | 3/5 | 15/20 |
Dec 23, 2008 Look is brownish red hazy color with a nice caramel hair colored head. Smell is chocolate, fruit, darker malts, and sweet. Taste is sweet, chocolate, and dark fruits.
awaisanen (1279), Irvine, California, USA
| 4.3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 9/10 | 5/5 | 17/20 |
Dec 4, 2008 From a 330mL Bottle. Mostly cloudy, dark ruddy caramel colored body with a huge head of fizzy ivory.
Aromas of pale chocolate and banana yeast esters float from the glass along with wisps of coconut. Slighty nutty
malt character with notes of teething biscuit. Awesome perfumey yeast character. Light bodied, heavily
carbonated mouthfeel with a crisp, dry texture. Flavors of banana and raisins wash over the palate in an
invigorating, cleansing scrub. Incredibly dry, but still takes the time to develop an awesome malt melanoiding
character, brimming with raisins, plums, and other dark fruits. The fruitiness of the malt is complimented
beautifully by the yeast, which brings out faint pepper, banana, and enhancing plummy fruit characters. An
extended finish of rummy fruits is left lingering on the palate. Who says you have to have a sticky, syrupy mess
to have flavor intensity? This beer rocks.
LordCorkscrew (982), Ronco Scrivia (GE), Italy
| 4.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 9/10 | 5/5 | 15/20 |
Dec 1, 2008 Grande oerbier, era un bel po’ che la volevo assaggiare, e stasera l’ho versata con noncuranza nel bicchiere (dopo averne perso un po’ con la solita sborata de dolle che mi ha macchiato la scrivania: la mia è la scrivania più profumata e appiccicosa del mondo). Nonostante fossi stanco, anzi forse proprio perché ero stanco, l’ho apprezzata tantissimo nella sua complessità orchestrata (ma mai sopraffatta) dal pungente dell’alcool, è la versione migliore di molte birre che non ce l’hanno fatta a raggiungere questi livelli.
Chrism86 (280), Melbourne, Australia
| 3.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 14/20 |
Nov 27, 2008 Pours muddy brown with a substantial cream coloured head. Aromas of malt and yeast dominate bringing choc-caramel and banana. Palate shows much of the same with a big hit of licorice and spice from the high abv, not unbalanced but definately shows. Some earthy hop bitterness is on the finish to add another dimension.
TheGrandMaster (1870), Auckland, New Zealand
| 3.8 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 15/20 |
Nov 27, 2008 Bottle (in NZ), a gusher! Pours a cloudy brown with a large foamy yellowish head. A musty aroma with banana and spice. A full malty palate, plenty of spice and alcohol. Banana medicine flavour, with marmalade and some chocolate bitterness. I’m sure this would be better without the travel.
daknole (3000), Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
| 3.3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 5/10 | 3/5 | 13/20 |
Nov 21, 2008 Bottle from Brother Tuckers. Brownish pour wtih a medium head. Aroma is nice with fruit, yeast and very malty. the flavor didnt match the great aroma for me. The bottle I had was somewhat bitter and not a pleasant hop bitterness, but a weird bitterness. It made me think I had a bad bottle??
elihapa (1067), Honolulu, California, USA
| 3.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
Nov 20, 2008 11/6/08 notes: bottle. Pours pink-ruby, with a huge fluffy head. Pretty serious lacing as well. Aroma is sweet and tart simultaneously, cherries, green apple, strawberries, and candy. Initial flavor is filled with lively sweet fruit, which is accentuated by the pearly carbonation. Mid-palate mellows to reveal a complexity of chocolate, malt, and perhaps some nutmeg. Oerbier finishes very long and sticky, an extended sweet note that also reveals wood, and alcohol. Overall, this was a fun beer to drink. It has a beautiful pour and aroma, for one.
cmillward (434), Orlando, Florida, USA
| 4.3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 5/5 | 9/10 | 4/5 | 17/20 |
Nov 2, 2008 Bottle. Pours a deep slightly ruddy brown with a fairly massive and thick tan head. Laces the glass nicely in sheets. Just gorgeous beer. The nose is fantastic big upfront plum, fruit, some caramel, yeast aromas of bubblegum, cherry. Medium-sweet fruity caramel flavor. Very vinous, with slightly tannic fruit, some brown sugar, alcohol comes out only as it finally reaches room temperature. Very quaffable, lush carbonation and slightly dry mouthfeel, a nice bit of acidity. Great beer.
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