 Cornfield (4255), Oak Forest, Illinois, USA
Dec 12, 2007 This poured a murky brown body with a thin ring around the glass in place of a head. It has an aroma of dark stone fruit, dried fruit, orchard fruit, burnt brown sugar, caramel, and lively spices. It seemed a bit thin yet managed to deliver flavors of caramel, the whole batch of aforementioned fruit, a touch of oak, spices, and a developing lactic sourness that detracted from the enjoyment of the drink. More interesting than likeable. <font size=-4><a href=http://www.ratebeer.com/events-detail.asp?eventID=6174> Festival of Barrel Aged Beers, Chicago, IL 11/03/2007<font size=-1>
beermatrix (1497), Twin Cities, Minnesota, USA
Oct 24, 2007 On-tap at the brewpub: Now labeled as 10% ABV, and it shows!
Medium ruby toned brown color, fairly clear, nary a thin ring of lace was on top when served in its 10oz snifter and very minimal, if any lace was evident. Lots of oilyness to its look across the glass.
Aroma is a steamy bath of big ABV stained with peach and green raisin juices. Very Schnapps-like.
Taste is mess of big heat mixing with a bit of apple, berry, and peach fruityness. Kinda darkish in tone with the fruit, some caramel notions and raisinyness. But man this is wallop of ABV right on your palate. Very hard to get past it really. Airy and medicinal tartness of alcoholic heat twinge the hell out of everything and makes it a one dimensional mess of heat.
Big on ABV heat and ethanolic broadness from the first sniff to the last sippig finish. The body itself seems kinda light too, oily creamyness is noted which helped to ease up a bit of the heat making it possible to actually drink this stuff with a bit of proper distaining acceptance.
Not sure if this was once a decent enough brew. I do remember seeing it and possibly trying it at a beerfest a couple years ago, but maybe forgot about it. And doely so, if it was anything like this.
One of the least favored brews I’ve had from Fitger’s.
incutrav (505), Woodbury, Minnesota, USA
May 9, 2007 Not really my cup of tea for the style. Pretty warm going down, lots of fruit in there. Not a big fan of fruit in general so i typically shy away from this style
Mrthirstyneck (339), Minnesota, USA
May 7, 2007 while not my favorite style, this one packed a punch. Tasted at arborfest MN 2007. heavy boozy afterburn which was kinda nice. Also, very fruity and spicy tons of flavor for a dubbel. fruity and sweet up front through the middle area, and long and boozy on the backside. TRY ONE TODAY
RAYBOY01 (1622), Chicago, Illinois, USA
Oct 25, 2005 Rum raisin/burnt fruits/dates/ burnt candy sugar/weird belgian spices/and about eleventeen other flavors...These guys are good!
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