 Crafty07 (331), Lexington, Kentucky, USA
Mar 28, 2008
Oh my god this is truly awful. I don’t give a shit how high the IBU is or how high they were able to make the alcohol content, this is a rasiony god-awful mess! what was subtle in the original D’Etre version becomes this pruny, cloyingly sweet mess in this. Don’t let the hop snobs fool you.
This sucks.
aubreya (648), Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Jul 16, 2008 The color was medium brown/orange. There was barely any head. The aroma was fortified wine, dry/sweet, dark fruit, and cherry. The flavor was sweet, alcohol, spice, honey, and fortified wine. The palate was very thick-bodied. The finish was warm and sweet.
emacgee (946), Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Jul 16, 2008 Thanks to a couple of people for a bottle of this. Pours a murky still dark brown with light ruby notes in the light. Coaxes no head. The nose is very pungent, rich, alcohol, sweet, raisin, fruit, port, molasses, definitely lets you know you’re drinking something big. The flavor is extremely big, very rich and intense. Tastes more like a port and sherry at the same time, very warm and hot alcohol, sweet dry fruits, plum and raisin, earthiness, molasses, honey. Very interesting and I have to give it unique points. Still hot mouthfeel with a coating sweetness. Finishes warm and sweet with a nice smoothness to it. I ended up enjoying it a lot.
MuttyD (38), Cambridge, USA
Jul 15, 2008 Huge amounts of raisins and dark fruits present in this beer. Very sweet, very aloholic. High alcohol content doesn’t burn as much as other high ABV ales I’ve tried. Very drinkable.
IPAaLLtHEwAY (93), La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA
Jul 9, 2008 powerful brown sugar smell as well as some raisons, medium caramel colour. strong mix of a raison/brown sugar/ with some alchool mixed in taste. bit of an alchool aftertaste.
ucusty (803), Wake Forest, North Carolina, USA
Jul 8, 2008 12 oz bottle from case and keg in Boca Raton. Dark amber pour almost brown, tan fizzy head that quickly dissipates. Fruity alcoholic aroma. Figs, raisons, plums and loads of sugar. Very cloying and alcoholic. good, but was it worth the 12 bucks?
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