7.4

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle from 2+ years ago. Black colour, light brown head with short retention. Aroma's: whisky, boozy, a bit spiritus, soy sauce. Retronasal: boozy, fruity, molasses. Flavour is above moderate sweet, alcohol. Medium bodied. Fairly strong alcoholic. Long finish with charcoal, light bitter.

6

@ 2018

8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle at Maakun’s. Dark brown with offwhite head. Sweet and deep roasted malts. Dark, grainy, roasty, barrel aged, some cherrywood, dark fruits, roasty. Quite sweet, quite bitter, quite heavy. Over medium body and soft carbonation.

8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle shared at home. Clear dark reddish brown with beige head. Vanilla, marzipan, amaretto, sweet milk chocolate, huge bourbon, sweet red berries, blackberries, sweet wood, light herbal, rye bread, honey. Over medium sweet and medium bitter. Full bodied with a bit boozy finish.

8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle. Almost black. Malt, roast, caramel, bourbon, vanilla and herbal notes in the aroma. Malty sweet, roasty, alcoholic flavor. Herbal, vanilla, bourbon. Almost full bodied, has thinned a bit probably due to the barrel aging. Complex, complete, nice. Not perfect, but the Tsarina once again delivers.

7.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Black with thin head. Aroma is very woody with some roasted malts too. Flavour has lingering woody dryness and warming alcohol. Throughout there's a gentle vanilla sweetness

8

Huge Woodford notes, wet oak, mouldy barrel, toffee, vanilla, light sour cherries. A complex beer, maybe a bit too bitter in the finish. 4.2 --- Beer merged from original tick of Tsarina Esra Woodford Reserve BA on 18 May 2018 at 06:58 - Score: Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8. Original review text: Dark pour with a beige head. Notes of wood, sour oak, bourbon, vanilla, dried fruit, figs, raisins, chocolate, cherries. The barrel notes just a bit too overpowering.

8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle 330ml. @ 10th. BBF 2018 [ 10th Borefts Beer Festival 2018 ] @ Brouwerij de Molen, Bodegraven, Netherlands. [ As De Molen Tsarina Esra Woodford Reserve BA ].Clear dark dark brown colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, caramel, bread, chocolate, dark malt, alcohol, light wood - vanilla wood. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a long duration, wood, dark malt, bread, alcohol, chocolate, wood - wood vanilla sweet. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft, finish feel is light alcoholic. [20180921] 8-4-8-4-16