 Beardface (977), Eugene, Oregon, USA
Jul 4, 2009 22 oz bottle picked up by my good friend Leems and shared around at our Memorial Day camping trip. Pours out a deep brown with red highlights. Aroma of chocolate, coffee, light roasted malt. Flavor of chocolate, coffee, light earthy hop and caramel malt. Very smooth and flavorful, good beer.
SilkTork (4155), Rochester, Kent, England
Jul 3, 2009 330ml bottle from Beers of Europe. A strong stout - assertive bitter flavours from both hop and malt, chocolate and coffee being dominant. Greasy mouthfeel. Alcohol heat - a bit crude for this strength. There’s an awkwardness between the light citrus notes and the heavy dark bitterness - tangy citrus notes would work, but these light summery ones don’t sit well. Drinkable, with interesting red berry fruits, but overall just a bit too assertively bitter and crude for my taste. A bit like chewing pipe tobacco - you’ll get plenty of flavours, and it’ll be interesting, but it won’t be that all pleasant.
bluevegie (2169), Perth, Australia
Jun 30, 2009 Off-white head hung around for a while on top of a reddy brown body. Good blend of coffee, choc, malt and noticeable hops on the aroma which carries through to the taste well.
nate2g (1034), Brisbane, Australia
Jun 26, 2009 Bottle. Pours dark brown with a huge light brown head that slowly diminished. Rich malt aroma, chocolate, caramel, toffee and light floral hop notes. The flavour is chocolate, caramel, toffee, nuts and citrusy hops. Good carbonation and finishes dry and bitter. It’s pretty hopped up for a brown ale, though it works well and the rich malt balances it out nicely. Very tasty!
Monpbeer (11), Melbourne, Australia
Jun 23, 2009 I really like this beer and being a bit of a hop fiend helps. Dark reddish-brown in colour with a nice dense fluffy head that hangs around. The aromas are hop dominated with some roasted nutty and malty characters underneath. The carbonation comes on strong initially but balances out straight away. Again the hops are come on strong but it has a fantastic full malty, toasty, nutty palate. Some charry notes too and a long persistent bitterness on the finish.
Top stuff. Drink around 8-10 degrees.
Chrism86 (273), Melbourne, Australia
Jun 20, 2009 More robust than the nogne o i’d sampled prior. Pours dark brown with a nice off white head. Nose has a good mix of roasted malt, choc.coffee as well as some us hops in there. Palate is more robust than i expected having not looked at the abv. Choc/coffee malt early supported by slightly citrussy hops, sounds odd but the citrus is rather mild but hop presence definately there. Finish is long with lingering hop bitterness and roasted malt. Overall a great, robust brown ale.
fiver29 (703), Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Jun 17, 2009 Bottle pours clear dark brown with a very thick and frothy off white head. Aroma is sweet grain. Light mouthfeel. Flavor was malty and had some hop twang in there as well that was balanced nicely. Overall this is solid. I was just a bit surprised that the mouthfeel was as thin as it was. Still nice.
Cirrhosis (610), Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Jun 16, 2009 "Thanks Philb for shipping it and thanks Beercronic for sharing it. Dark brown body with a huge off white cap. Aroma is sweet and malty and blow my mind awesome. Hops are noticeable but not citrusy (thank gawd) some coffee shows up in the aroma as well. I’ve never smelt anything so good in the style. Very malty taste with blueberry, dusty coffee, apricot, some citrus (but hard to find) and a extreme bitter chocolate after taste. Feel is a touch off for me with its chalky dryness. This is so bold and rich you could easily call this a porter instead of a brown ale. The aroma for this stuff is awesome the taste gets lost a little in its intensity but still good."
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