Score
7.24
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Sample at brewery, dark copper opaque. Creamy full body. Caramel aroma, pine and dark fruit taste, strongly bitter hops finish.
Pours a dark amber with a tan head. Aroma is dominated by caramel, with bread, plum, dried fruit and raisins. Taste is quite similar with banana, grass, ripe peach, some hints of maple syrup.
Draft - Big hoppy earthy pine and malts. Cloudy copper with a very rich beige head. Big pine hops and malts. Decent.
Deep amber color, lots of caramel and pine in the nose with some dried fruits. Big malty back bone but fairly simplistic. With aggressive hops.
Draft sample at Epic Brewing taproom, Denver. Pours hazy amber with a small tan head. Aroma of malt, pine, resinous hops, caramel, ripe fruits and toffee. Flavour is over moderate sweet and bitter. Medium to full bodied with soft carbonation. Nice brew!
Bottle. Hazy dark amber colour with an off-white head. Floral, grass, fruit, hops aroma. Flavour is caramel, hops, malt.
Bomber bought @ Bierkompass.de. Pours hazy deep reddish brown with a frothy beige head that slowly dissipates while leaving some thick lacing on the glass. Smell is slightly sweet, malty and hoppy with sweet dark bread, caramel, oily pine, resinous wood, grapefruit juice, moist soil, orange peal, bergamot, strawberries, alcohol and cereal. Taste is sweet, bitter, malty and hoppy with sweet bread, frozen strawberries, grapefruit juice, lemon zest, alcohol, cereal, orange peal, oily pine, resinous wood, wild strawberries, freshly cut grass and lemon peal. Mouthfeel is round, smooth, tiny boozy and medium bodied. Finish is slightly sweet and bitter with sweet bread, grapefruit juice, lemon peal, resinous wood, oily pine and freshly cut grass. Good stuff...
Bottled at SBWF (7.5%). Cloudy copper colour, small head. Perfumy grapefruit aroma. Mid sweet with above medium body and rounded mouthfeel. Fruity and caramelly, salty and hoppy with long bitter finish.
Bottled@SBWF2012. Deep red colour with a small off-white head. Aroma is nice floral, grassy and fruity hops with some slight bready malts and raisins to it. Flavour is mild ryebread, slightly toasted malts, some slight alcohol sweetness as well as some raisins and mild wooden notes.
Bottled. Nice reddish amber color. Cherry nose, caramel, nice chocolate in the background. Very fruity flavor, cherry, light caramel and chocolate, good, hoppy.