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Legend
Tommyknocker Brewery
- From:
- Tommyknocker Brewery
- Colorado, United States
- Style:
- American Strong Ale
- ABV:
- 10%
- Score:
- 86
- Avg:
- 3.79 | pDev: 15.3%
- Reviews:
- 19
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Mar 21, 2016
- Added:
- Dec 14, 2009
- Wants:
- 7
- Gots:
- 10
No description / notes.
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Reviewed by Brutaltruth from Ohio
4.06/5 rDev +7.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.06/5 rDev +7.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Enjoyed from the 12 oz bottle version of the red dipped cap. This unique strong ale pours a dark reddish brown with a solid off white head of foam that dies down to a very thin layer and a thick ring. Nose of molasses, oak, vanilla, and strong booze. Flavors exceed the nose with sweet molasses, a dash of maple, a touch of vanilla and oak tot eh sides and back, a light smoke character, and mild spices of light white pepper blending with strong booze. Moderate carbonation makes this one an easy sipper, while the warmth reminds one to go easy. Coating mouth feel with a raisin flavor in the finish. Very good and one of the most complex brews I have had from Tommyknocker to date.
Cheers
May 17, 2015Cheers
Reviewed by JennyFury from New Jersey
2.08/5 rDev -45.1%
look: 1.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 2
2.08/5 rDev -45.1%
look: 1.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 2
Was super excited about this beer. Love to review beers on here that I like and get sooty ratings. But this beer, with an 86 rating? Here goes:
Looked good (delicious in fact) poured good. Tasted like sweet molasses with a hint of dirt from my backyard.
Mar 03, 2014Looked good (delicious in fact) poured good. Tasted like sweet molasses with a hint of dirt from my backyard.
Reviewed by UCLABrewN84 from California
3.44/5 rDev -9.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.44/5 rDev -9.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Thanks to GRG1313 for sharing this one at his tasting.
Bottle # 1/1500.
Pours a clear copper with a foamy khaki head that settles to a film on top of the beer. Small dots of lace form around the glass on the drink down. Smell is of malt, caramel, toffee, and wood aromas. Taste is much the same with caramel and malt flavors on the finish. There is a mild amount of woody bitterness on the palate with each sip. This beer has a lower level of carbonation with a slightly crisp and medium bodied mouthfeel. Overall, this is a pretty good beer but the taste is better than the smell in my opinion.
May 09, 2013Bottle # 1/1500.
Pours a clear copper with a foamy khaki head that settles to a film on top of the beer. Small dots of lace form around the glass on the drink down. Smell is of malt, caramel, toffee, and wood aromas. Taste is much the same with caramel and malt flavors on the finish. There is a mild amount of woody bitterness on the palate with each sip. This beer has a lower level of carbonation with a slightly crisp and medium bodied mouthfeel. Overall, this is a pretty good beer but the taste is better than the smell in my opinion.
Reviewed by maximum12 from Minnesota
4/5 rDev +5.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev +5.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Thanks to adnielsen for this handsome stranger, arriving as an extra in a recent trade. 2009 is stamped into the red wax, so this one is three circuits old, give or take. 500ML bottle.
Pour is suprisingly jazzed for an older, bigger brew, big mocha head over a brown body. The nose is raw oak & sweet malt which, while not overly complex, sure is enticing.
Legend is a ballsy name to give any beer; it sets the sipper up for disappointment almost by definition (I mean, how many 'legendary' brews have you had? Don't answer if your avg rate is 4.17). Wanton, unfinished oak scalds the palate & drowns everything else like Kiribati. The oak is, indeed legendary, it's fresh & strong without being rude. Char is the only challenger; might be part & parcel of the wood, or the malts. Soft sweetness, smoke from a distant fire, peck of alcohol, touch of earthiness. In the end, the wood takes over less aggressively & reasserts is supremacy. Lovely balance & the slightly bigger bottle will be no problem at all on this chilly night.
Trying hard to pigeonhole this one & failing. The wood, whatever it is, is really unique, & lends this an original, fast-sipping quality to it. Very good beer.
Apr 19, 2012Pour is suprisingly jazzed for an older, bigger brew, big mocha head over a brown body. The nose is raw oak & sweet malt which, while not overly complex, sure is enticing.
Legend is a ballsy name to give any beer; it sets the sipper up for disappointment almost by definition (I mean, how many 'legendary' brews have you had? Don't answer if your avg rate is 4.17). Wanton, unfinished oak scalds the palate & drowns everything else like Kiribati. The oak is, indeed legendary, it's fresh & strong without being rude. Char is the only challenger; might be part & parcel of the wood, or the malts. Soft sweetness, smoke from a distant fire, peck of alcohol, touch of earthiness. In the end, the wood takes over less aggressively & reasserts is supremacy. Lovely balance & the slightly bigger bottle will be no problem at all on this chilly night.
Trying hard to pigeonhole this one & failing. The wood, whatever it is, is really unique, & lends this an original, fast-sipping quality to it. Very good beer.
Legend from Tommyknocker Brewery
Beer rating:
86 out of
100 with
36 ratings
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