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My 100th Moon Dog rating. Canvent. A tribute to Fantales, an evidently unpopular discontinued cinema chocolate. Black. A tan head is immediately gone. Smells of dark caramel, some chocolate. Medium bodied with low carbonation. Sweet with quite singed and slightly fudgy caramel, milk chocolate in the background. Not much stout though.
Bottle. Black. A tan head never really forms. Rather medicinal aroma with dark sugars, cherry, mocha, some peat. More stout in the taste with roast, chocolate, seaweed, strong bread. Bitter at the end with the rum barrel making its presence felt without so much of the spices. Peat creeps up. I just didn't want the tricked up bit of the rum at all. At this rate I shall be skipping Black Lung XXIII.
Can. Pretty hazy orange with a good cm of dense white head. Aroma of stone fruit - grilled apricot, peach - with a sharper citrus - lemon more than grapefruit - edge, bread. That citrus top not gives it real shape, and there's also some orange and lime upon a swig, with some honeydew melon and light mango joining the stone fruit too. Perhaps surprisingly, not a case of too many cooks nor of too many hop varieties.
They've been running with this crap joke for more than a decade. I like that. Can. Gold with a head that quickly fades to nothing. Lightly fruity with twangy wheat behind. Sweetish with quite rich pomegranate but only a little of its - or the base beer's - tartness. But tasty and quite refreshing.
Draft at Dock No.13, Bangkok. Poured a slightly hazy golden colour with a short-lived, bubbly white head. The aroma is grainy malt, boiled sweet citrus. The flavour is moderate bitter and sweet, with a smooth, rich, juicy sugary boiled sweet, woody hop bitter palate and a lingering bitter finish. Medium bodied with average carbonation.
Draft at Hair of the Dog, Phrom Phong, Bangkok. Poured a hazy light amber colour with a lasting frothy white head. The aroma is big Kiwi fruit. The flavour is moderate bitter, with a crisp, fresh, somewhat light, malt earthy, kiwi, light woody hop bitter palate. Medium to light bodied with average to soft carbonation. Nothing special. Fine as a session beer, but a little bland and no defining flavours. It’s somewhat sad when you think this beer has been shipped all the way from Melbourne to Bangkok where its sold for outrageous prices and I have to ask why? This beer cost 15 AUD for a tiny glass and it’s so not worth it.
Bottled@Beer Hunters. Black colour, small beigeish brown head. Aroma is cherriesd, some wheat, chocolate and mild toffee tones. Flavour is toasted, roasted, some wheat, mild cherries with some herbs and quite wooden tones. Somewhat watery palate.
Bottled@Beer Hunters, Pori. Black colour, small beigeish brown head. Aroma is rhum, some roasted tones, mild wooden and earthy tones. Flavour is sweet malts, smoke, tar, rhum and mild toffeeish tones with some slight chocolate as well.
Bottle. Clear pale red with a white head that's soon at the rim. Aroma of strawberries and sweet cherries with some almond, light bread, oak. Sweet with fruit and peppery oak, grape skins and a suggestion of sourness. Perhaps misses a little bitterness (or more definite sourness) at the end. Good.
330ml can at the Beer Bank, Kuala Lumpur. Poured a hazy yellow golden colour with a short-lived, frothy white head. The aroma is big peaches. The flavour is moderate sour, light sweet, with a fresh, crisp, tart peach, light herbal, light sweet lactose finish. Medium bodied with soft carbonation. Not so sour and with hints of sweetness. I can understand why this might be a popular beer, but for me it’s just the one can.
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