 Alldaydrinker (558), Norwood, Massachusetts, USA
| 3.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 6/10 | 3/5 | 11/20 |
Dec 3, 2007 12 oz bottle Pours a dark brown colour with a medium frothy tan head. Nose of red fruits, cocoa, and light roasted malts. Initial taste of cream, roasted malts, berries, and cocoa. Moving into a tangy cocoa berry. Palate stopping chalky dry finish. Mild bitterness lingers. Medium body. Decent head retention and lacing of the glass.
RaphaelN (195), Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
| 2.5 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 4/5 | 4/10 | 4/5 | 7/20 |
Dec 1, 2007 Bottle shared with a friend.... Bacon! This beer dominates with a smokey bacon taste.Absolutely horrid taste, with a lasting aftertaste which is equally bad. Smell was of roast, peat, more bacon in the nose. Stay away for your own palate’s sake.
jcwattsrugger (5573), Florida and, New Jersey, USA
| 2.8 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 3/5 | 5/10 | 3/5 | 11/20 |
Nov 25, 2007 500ml bottle -pours a ? head and ? color. Aroma is chocolate, charcoal, grain. Taste is chocolate, charcoal. Grainy mouth feel.
Juelze (912), Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA
| 3.3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 14/20 |
Nov 25, 2007 Pours a dark brown color with tan head. Aroma is of a light chocolate and fruit with a bit of roasted grain. Taste is chocolate, light smoke, roasted malt and light fruit (elderberries). Medium bodied and nice to the palate, this was a good beer.
Petrucci914 (591), Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA
| 3.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 5/10 | 3/5 | 6/10 | 3/5 | 14/20 |
Nov 24, 2007 Pours a dark brown with a red tinge. Aroma is of dark roasted oats and red wine. The flavor is of red wine with a smokiness to it.
yespr (12406), Copenhagen O, Denmark
| 3.3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 4/5 | 6/10 | 4/5 | 13/20 |
Nov 20, 2007 33 cL bottle. Pours pitch black and with a dense light brown head. Spiced and dark roasted aroma. Roasted malt and mild chocolate smoothness in the initial flavour. A set of wineous notes and spices appear before the finish, a citric/fruity note of elderberries too - but if I didn’t know from the label that it contains elberberries I wouldn’t have guessed/sensed it. The finish itself holds a solid bitterness with a liqourice note. Nice, but lacks some more powerful flavours to be more interesting, subtle flavours are plentiful yet too vague.
yarry (370), Waterdown, Ontario, Canada
| 3.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 5/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 13/20 |
Nov 17, 2007 330ml bottle, 6.5% a/v
Pours as black, if not blacker, then Guinness with a quickly dissapating brown head. The nose is very fruity, seemingly raspberry and red wine. The flavour is red wine, oak, and roasted malt with an aftertaste of tannin rich red wine and dark chocolate.
JesseM (676), Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
| 3.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 8/10 | 3/5 | 15/20 |
Nov 15, 2007 Pours an almost pitch black with a tiny brown head. The aroma is of dark roasted malts, molasses, somewhat fruity, but not really. It smells exactly like a porter to be honest, which isn’t really a bad thing necessarily. The taste is pretty much the exact same as a plain porter, roasted oats/barley, very tasty, but nothing all that unique except for a touch of something fruity in the after taste, which I guess could be the "elderberries", which in general add a slightly sweet edge to the aroma and flavour. No serious traces of the wheat or the herbs that are supposedly used to brew this. the mouth-feel is slick and oily. It’s a pretty good beer, actually I’ll go out on a limb here and call this an enjoyable "porter" of sorts. It’s just nothing all that unique.
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