{"id":3108,"date":"2015-12-07T12:36:46","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T16:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adamchandler.beer\/?p=3108"},"modified":"2015-12-07T12:36:46","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T16:36:46","slug":"review-dark-horse-maple-bourbon-reserve-special-black-bier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/12\/07\/review-dark-horse-maple-bourbon-reserve-special-black-bier\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2605 Review: Dark Horse Maple Bourbon Reserve Special Black Bier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"View 'Dark Horse Maple Bourbon Reserve Special Black Bier' on Flickr.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adamjackson\/22796772204\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/611\/22796772204_e439be5367_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Dark Horse Maple Bourbon Reserve Special Black Bier\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Overall 3.4\/5<br \/>\nAROMA 6\/10 APPEARANCE 4\/5 TASTE 7\/10 PALATE 3\/5 OVERALL 14\/20<\/p>\n<p>AdamChandler (3920) &#8211; Enfield, New Hampshire, USA &#8211; NOV 28, 2015<\/p>\n<p>Thanks WillRun. 375ML bottle split about x amount of ways. Slightly black with a bit of amber hues. nice lacing on a 1 finger espresso colored head. Aroma is just a lot of chocolate with only a little bit of maple. good creamy mouthfeel, a lot of bitterness and unsweetened chocolate. I don\u2019t get any maple unfortunately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Overall 3.4\/5 AROMA 6\/10 APPEARANCE 4\/5 TASTE 7\/10 PALATE 3\/5 OVERALL 14\/20 AdamChandler (3920) &#8211; Enfield, New Hampshire,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-03-17T02:00:33Z","apple_news_api_id":"f16d5d9a-6dea-49b3-9dc0-b2797c09c454","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-03-17T02:00:33Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A8W1dmm3qSbOdwLJ5fAnEVA","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-reviews","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-O8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3127,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/12\/17\/review-jackie-os-bourbon-barrel-black-maple\/","url_meta":{"origin":3108,"position":0},"title":"\u2605 Review: Jackie O\u2019s Bourbon Barrel Black Maple","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"December 17, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Overall 3.6\/5 AROMA 9\/10 APPEARANCE 4\/5 TASTE 6\/10 PALATE 3\/5 OVERALL 14\/20 AdamChandler (3920) - Enfield, New Hampshire, USA - NOV 28, 2015 Pitch black, thanks WillRun! 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