 sebletitje (1925), Tampa, Florida, USA
| 3.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 15/20 |
Nov 7, 2009
bottle# 18119, September ’07 brew.
Pours dark brown, black with no head, few mocha bubbles and thin golden lacing.
Aroma of light roasted malts, some smoke, whiskey is moderate.
Flavor, some char smoke, malty roast.
Thin chocolate mouthfeel, wood barrel with light bitter finish. Whiskey and wood character were a little more pronounced in the finish.
JesseM (669), Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
| 4.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 9/10 | 4/5 | 17/20 |
Dec 16, 2009 330mL bottle from the Lickboe, acquired partly by luck, partly by my secretive beer hunting skills. Pours a deep dark brown with a medium khaki head. The aroma has some nice sharp yet still somehow subtle aspects of wisky, toffee, chocolate malt, dry chalk, coffee roast, smells pretty good. Flavour hits right away, huge sweet dark chocolate malt upfront with some nice woody dryness balancing it out. Very minor hint of scotch, and some chalk. Some interesting esters hiding in there too, oddly reminiscent of banana bread. Awesome fuller body from the oats. Surprisingly drinkable. More or less a stout though I guess it’s in a grey area. Awesome brew that I’m glad to have had the opportunity to try (though it would be really nice if the LCBO’s in a certain large city could quit hording all of this and the 40).
TheJester (716), Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
| 3.8 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 3/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 15/20 |
Dec 15, 2009 330 mL bottle. (bottled July 2009). Pours as black as can be with a small and rapidly dissipating brown head. Aroma is sweet, with vanilla, oak, maraschino cherries and roast. Flavour is smoke and roast up front, with chocolate and espresso in the end. A touch of alcohol. Almost gritty mouthfeel. An excellent brew.
strowlands8 (86), Ontario, Canada
| 3.8 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 3/5 | 16/20 |
Dec 15, 2009 Aroma is of alcohol and roasted malt. Appearance is dark brown with a small off-white head. Taste is lots of wood, slight vanilla, roasted malts and some alcohol. Palate is a little thin with not much body. Overall not bad, but not worth the price.
Spab (294), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| 3.8 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 15/20 |
Dec 15, 2009 330 ml bottle from LCBO. Pours a dark black with small brown head. Aroma of roast, whiskey, oak and toffee. Flavour has strong whiskey character with roast and dark chocolate notes also very apparent as well as some toffee and oak. Nice big body and very smooth mouthfeel, with light carbonation. Unique and pretty nice.
Miksu (2232), Jyväskylä, Finland
| 3.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 4/5 | 6/10 | 3/5 | 13/20 |
Dec 15, 2009 0.33 l bottle from Alko. Sweet aroma with obvious whisky and oak with hints of coffee and licorice. Roasty and whiskeyish flavor with peat, licorice and charcoal. OK, A bit too oaky and peaty.
Ljunkan (398), Karlstad, Sweden
| 4.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 17/20 |
Dec 13, 2009 Bottle from Systembolaget. Pours a black color with small brown head. Some lacing. Aroma is quite rich and inviting; burnt almonds, toffee, whisky, wood and roasted notes of dark chocolate. There’s also traces of vanilla. Flavour is sweet and toffee-ish. There’s lot of burnt almonds, chocolate, wood and whisky. A very light smokiness in the aftertaste. Medium to fullbodied. The mouthfeel is smooth and the carbonation is soft. A very nice beer.
Theis (3760), Denmark
| 4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
Dec 13, 2009 Bottle at home. Black - brown head. Chocolate, smokey, whiskey, high malty, very smooth, high malty, oakey, wood, low carbonation, tar, tarmac, light burned. Very nice and drinkable.
Toxygen (137), Sanford, Florida, USA
| 4.5 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 10/10 | 4/5 | 9/10 | 5/5 | 17/20 |
Dec 11, 2009 Updated: Dec 12, 2009(br-btl bk/wh-lbl, “Special 12 Reserve”, bottle #1.8655 sept 2007, drank may 2009, $9, 80¢/oz)
opq-bk, no-head, viscous, thick but crisp dry body,
aroma: ^chclt-malt silage dark-fruit grain warm-alchl §smoked-ham,
taste:
T1: chrd-chclt-malt §alchl-wrm §astrngt
T2: ^balanced(leafy-hops & roasty-malt) lcrc lactose §goat-cheese
T3: astrngt-bttr herbal-hop
Tf: chclty
hops and malts are so well balanced and complementary in T2 that they are almost indiscernible from each other - not sure if i like that.
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