 RblWthACoz (959), Brooklyn, New York, USA
Feb 5, 2008
Pours foggy brown. Nose is mildly sweet. Flavor is extremely smooth. Firm sweet tones. Just unbelievably smooth. Feel is smooth as well with tiny bubbles of carbonation caressing the tongue. This is just a magnificent beer. Well worth the coin. I would drink this every day if there weren’t so many other things to try.
porterhouse (922), Alna, Maine, USA
Aug 28, 2008 (275 ml bottle (2007) from 1828 Vintage House) Pours murky orange/amber with lots of chunkies. Yum! Only a trace of a head that is mostly around edges. Aroma of malty rock candy, pine, apple, brown sugar, wood and port. Mouthfeel is soft, smooth and sticky, hardly any carbonation. Lacing is mostly a syrupy film inside of snifter. Flavor is big, malty and sweet. Notes of sugary malt and fairly subtle winey port. A piney bitterness emerges and provides a nice balance to the sweet malt through the finish. A big warming alcohol presence. Very good. Almost as tasty as the Calvados and not quite as sugary as the Lagavulin.
KimJohansen (3171), Copenhagen V, Denmark
Aug 28, 2008 Hazy deep amber with tiny off white head. Sweet aroma with plums, caramel, wood and port notes. Sweet and viniuos flavor with port, caramel, wood and port.
michael-pollack (1378), King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, USA
Aug 21, 2008 275ml Bottle: Very complex, sweet aroma. Smells of malts, honey, raisin, alcohol, soy sauce, and raw dough. Poured copper with a hint of amber in color and no head. Very cloudy. Opaque. Full of particles of all sizes. Complex flavor is light to medium sweet. Tastes of wood, tobacco, honey, malts, raisins, vanilla, grapes, smoke, and sugar. Medium body. Smooth, oily texture. Soft carbonation. Woody, sweet, lightly dry finish. 11.5%ABV is well hidden.
after4ever (1710), Brier, Washington, USA
Aug 18, 2008 12-oz, 2004, capped, opened at Brouwer’s Aug 08. Pours thick, oily, headless and still. Light caramel brown. Laceless, a bit of leg showing. No carb. This beer has heavenly toffee, nuts, caramel, and faint oak notes on the nose. Huge vinous port notes over all that. Thick, almost sticky, oily body. All the sweet candy bar and fruitcake notes come back for the mid-palate, shot through with red wine sweetness and an almost tannic bite at the finish from those grape skins. Sweet and bitey finish at the same time. The years have been exceptionally kind to this beer, to the extent that I may never again be able to bring myself to crack one that doesn’t have some cellaring on it.
mesperon (18), Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
Aug 16, 2008 2007 Vintage. Tha aroma is mostly sweet raisin, with traces of grapefruit, moldy malt, crisp alcohol, and wallpaper glue. Pours opaque mber, small head, lots of sediment. Nice, full mouthfeel. Starts out thin and weak, bland malty base, develops into predminantly sweet raisin, finishes with a grassy herby bitterness, with a touch of coffee. Didn’t get better throughout the glass, settled into plasticy, dirty vegetable taste. Overall impression is higher because of the idea of it The Sherry version, same vintage, was overpowering with alcohol, this as underwhelming with malt and raisin.
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