 NomDeBeer (398), Maryland, USA
Jan 14, 2009 A tad thin and acidic with flavors of raisins and sweet fruit, plus some chocolate. Drinkable and pretty good, but not spectacular. The acidity and lack of roasted flavors started to wear on me after a while though.
jb (1024), Rochester, New York, USA
Jan 11, 2009 Pour is very dark, almost black, very thin tan head. Aroma is nice, very sweet, mostly chocolate. Palate is a bit oily, a little gritty, deep roasted coffee, ends dry. This is not super complex, but very good.
ditmier (1021), Boise, Idaho, USA
Jan 10, 2009 2008 Bottle - Pours dk brown with a quickly dissipating tan head...aroma is coffee malt, bitter grain...flavour is similar, chocolate, dry, thin and a bit watery, roasty with a bit of smoke, I typically like my stouts a bit thicker and with more alcohol...
grandgenie (252), gatineau, Quebec, Canada
Jan 9, 2009 Dégusté dans un verre de newcastle. Bière d’une impressionnante beauté, de la couleur à la mousse. Une bière d’un noir intese et d’une mousse collante laissant à chaque gorgé une trace de mon passage. Une odeur de noisette grillé, de chocolat et de café. Avec le temps, j’ai pu sentir une odeur d’olive noir très plaisante et un légère senteur de vanille bourbon. Un goût franc de torréfaction et de chocolat mi amère laissant entrevoir un léger goût de caramel. En bouche, du gruau liquide, un bel équilibre entre l’amère,le sucré, la rondeur et le huilleux. Très plaisante, sans artifice juste bien dosé et en harmonie.
Pinball (2693), Allerød, Denmark
Jan 8, 2009 half a year past it’ s due date. Bottle from ølbutikken enjoyed at home.
pours somewhere between black and very dark brown, brown head that doesn’t seem entirely stable.
strong aroma of coffeee, roasted malts, toffee, chocolate, faint banana milkshake.
very very strong flavor, more than full bodied, starts out slightly sweet and chocolaty and ends superdry heavily roasted without becoming burnt. aftertaste very dominated by roasted malts and other roasted stuff.
palate is real nice, thick brew, but strangely, somehow it feels a little watery too. Overall it is absolutely amazing that someone gets this much flavor out of a brew at only 5%. If i had to guess, i’d put the ABV at 10% and guess this was an imp.stout or something. for a 5% beer we’ve got unbeliveably intense flavor and aroma. and i though guinness was amazing for a "low alc", blah. this is the real stuff.
fredthecat (180), Canada
Jan 7, 2009 smells like a coffee cream candy from pot o gold chocolates. it poured with a thin but lasting dark head and is dark dark brown. it feels as smooth as velvet.. absolutely awesome feel. the taste is subdued, bitter coffee.
golubj (1275), Sunnyvale, California, USA
Jan 2, 2009 Bottle, thanks to someone. Black pour with brown ring of head. Aroma is sweet milk, light roasted malt. Flavor is the same, with chocolate as well and caramel sweetness.
alexanderj (2213), Chino Hills, California, USA
Jan 2, 2009 Bottle courtesy of golubj. Very nice looking pour with a dark brown color and a light brown head. Aroma was quite sweet with a lot of chocolate, vanilla, caramel with a very light roasted presence. Flavor was much more balanced than the aroma, but there was still alot of sweetness, that did not seem to work too well. More smokey and roasted elements than the aroma foreshadowed. Maybe I was not in the mood for it, but this did not quite connect with me.
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