Why does my Dark Lord 2012 taste like green apples?

Had one opened the night of DLD and it tasted fine, no off taste.

 

I see so many of these trades and will never understand it. Personal preference to the extreme I guess.

 

I drank one of mine and no taste of apples to me. Send your DL to me and i will test this out!!

 

Is there a dislike button??

 

Um, what the OP describes is exactly what could be found in a fresh bottle of '11 DL, so yeah, there's that.

FosterJM - also the bacon.

What a mess that beer is. I can't speak for older vintages, but '10 forward have been beyond my appreciation. Sweet, poorly controlled mess. Everything I read on the label, included everything I didn't experience.

 

Ouch. Guess you're gonna have to ride the train!

 

We all get it by now, you don't like Dark Lord.

 

i actually enjoyed mine very much.

 

I don't recall any mention of green apple taste in the '11 DL. That said, I wasn't a huge fan of it fresh either...

 

A lot of people really, really dislike Dark Lord. I thoroughly enjoyed it lol

 

In what way do you not understand it? Meaning the DL isn't worth a Hunah?

 

All your beer are belong to green apples!

 

I didn't notice any off flavors from the bottle. The draft version had some cherry to it.

 

I only sampled 20+ beers.......

 

Correct, DL is not worth a Huna

 

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That was my experience... the first time. My subsequent experiences with '11 and '10 were not better. I guess I should update my info and drink my last bottle, but trading the shit is gonna be more lucrative (just being honest).

 

Was ''11 a particularly bad year? I've only had '09 with about 2 years time on it. I remember it being very sweet, thick, and not overly complex. Good, but not great.

 

15,290 discussion on this site. 8,575 are in the Trading section. Not only does it taste like apples, it also seems to drive traffic here!

 

Kids, this will teach you to never drink rare beers while on LSD.

 

I haven't been overly impressed with any of the recent vintages. I will still contend that '08 Dark Lord was one of my favorite beers of all time. I thought the '10 was better than both the '09 and '11. I'm thinking about doing a big review when I open my vertical this weekend. Probably post it in the Cellaring/Aging forum.