Ithaca Excelsior! Ten

This starts out with a blast of piny hops, that fades into an aroma of chocolate and biscuits. Pours a dark ruby red, with a huge fluffy light tan head. Flavor is a bit of sweet dark fruits, a touch of alcohol heat, and just a bit of bitterness in the finish. I wish I had a chance to try this one fresh... I don’t think the year was kind to it.

Batch E!014. From a 750ml into a snifter. Pours with three fingers of head and lots of carbonation, but little to no lacing. Mild aroma of malt and a little yeast, some plum too. Taste is dominated by the hops but there’s a lot of malt, this being a strong ale. Cherries, plums and yeast also round out the flavor. Unfortunately, the hops are too bitter and dominate the flavor for the worse. A little more floral hops, rather than the biting and bitter hops would make this an excellent beer. However, it’s very good, allbeit expensive.

Pours a dark amber color with a nice off white head. Has a amazing smell of wood, molasses, vanilla and little bit of hops. Taste is more of the same as the smell.

I tried to clean up my original rating for this beer. I was probably too drunk when i rated it, but I think it can still be informative in that I recommend it for someone who is very close to blacking out. After all, a wise man once told me that a rating is just a snapshot in time between a person and their beer and there is no telling what mood or state of mind a person may be in when trying to make their next beer selection.

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Bottle thanks to thirdeye11. The smel lis fruits, sort of hops, some pine, and citrus. The taste is some fruits, malts, wort, and ok. The look is cloudy, orangen in color, with a beige colored head.

Pours blood red with a creamy head. Nose is hoppy with vanilla and a little bit of a tin smell. Taste is big caramel and toffee with a harsh hop bitterness and slightly metallic.

Bottle. Dark red-brown with a medium off white head. Aroma is sweet malt, candy, fruit cake, figs, caramel, spices and hops. Flavor is very interesting at first with a complex malt profile, fruity esters, alcohol, spices, fruit cake and and hops aroma; then, a gigantic hop waves comes and kill this very interesting malts flavor. Its an interesting beer, but less hops would do it some good.

bottle thanks to thrideye11. poured amber with an off white head. aroma of caramel, dark fruit, citrus, orange, and cinnamon. flavor had all the same aspects as the nose. heavy body with light carbonation.