Thomas Hardy's Ale The Historical 2025 (French Oak)
Interbrau in Villafranca Padovana (PD), Veneto, Italy 🇮🇹
Brewed at/by: Hepworth & CoBarley Wine - Barley Regular
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Score
7.84
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Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
bottle at home March 2026 ...copper ...thin white lacing ..soft sweet caramel toffee fruit nose ...Light sweet caramel toffee fruit ..juicy sweet caramel crystal ..juicy sweet caramel toffee fruit 8.4
Cask at the blue blazer March 2026 ...deep copper ...small off white head ...beautiful crystal spangles nose ...juicy caramel sweet oily toffee ..juicy caramel mamts6...orange peel ..soft sweet fruit 8.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle 01976 shared with McCash. Pours hazy orange with a thin beige head. Aromas of honey, leather and wood spice. Taste is sweet orange, golden sultanas, honey and spice again. Sticky but not cloying. Boozy warmth.
Bottle thanks to allmyvinyl.
Appearance - deep bright orange with a light haze. Beige, thin head.
Nose - syrup, honey, leather and woody.
Taste - sweet orange, golden sultanas, lychee and honey.
Palate - medium bodied plus with sticky texture, and a woody though still sticky finish.
Overall - luscious!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
275ml bottle from The Westhill Service Station, Aberdeen - clear copper body with a short lasting off white head. Lots of boozy fruit cake and malt loaf vibes, really solid dried stone fruit taste, prunes, woodiness, dates. Warming and syrupy.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Bought at Utobeer, Borough Market, London. Pours a clear ruby/copper body and a nice tan head with a small layer retention. Aroma's of fruit candy, wood/tannines, light sweet and a hint of fruity sour. Retronasal the tannines are a bit more upfront, with sweetness, fruit, a bit alcohol. Flavour is above moderate sweet with hints of fruity sourness and bitterness. Medium bodied, warming alcohol, soft carbonation. Long finish with some wood, light moderate bitter. Quite delicate, really nice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
2025 Bottle. As in 2024 this edition is on French Oak.
Nose is toffee, apples, hint of caramel, pear drops, earthy note. Taste leads sweet, then a hit of a tart vinous, sherry note, leading to caramel, nuts, bread, prunes, stewed fruit pear drops, spice, woody barrel, in a drier than expected and spicy finish.
Lovely.