Butcher's Tears Spiral Scratch

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Butcher's Tears in Aalsmeer, Noord-Holland, Netherlands 🇳🇱

  Strong Ale - English Regular Out of Production
Score
6.58
ABV: 6.8% IBU: - Ticks: 9
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6.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

0.33 l bottle (bb: 12/2017), huge thanks to Adam for this one. Pours copper with thick, quickly disappearing head. Nose is fruity and acidic, reminds me of red wine. Strange, but not bad. In taste it has the same tart fruity character, with some additional earthy notes, and grains and it wouldn't be bad, but it feels like a bit watered down, or something. It has all these notes, but not quite powerfully altogether. Light bodied with soft carbo, easy to drink. Pretty interesting beer altogether, but honestly I'm not totally sure which traits are intentional and which are the results of it being past its best before date a few months.

Tried from Bottle on 04 Mar 2025 at 07:15


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle from Bierkoning, Amsterdam. Aroma is sweetish biscuity malt, caramel, bit yeasty, with ripe fruits and soft floral/herbal notes. Flavour is medium sweet with a little bitterness in the finish. Body is medium, slightly creamy. Fairly smooth and enjoyable.

Tried from Bottle on 10 Feb 2025 at 04:49


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

330ml bottle at the brewpub Butcher's Tears. Shared with Leif. Firm off-white head, clingy lacing, cloudy amber coloured body. Smell of dried fruits and brown malts. Rather sweet taste character of caramel, raisin, and ripe citrus. Rounded malt-driven end. Medium bodied. Just alright, a bit too sweet in the long run. (Amsterdam 09.03.2018).

Tried from Bottle on 15 Mar 2018 at 20:43


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle shared at sjogro's thanks to kermis for the bottle. Hazy dark orange golden with small off white head. Caramel, dried orange, soft tangerine liquor, Cointreau, herbal candy, dried plums. Quite fruity and malty with herbal bitter finish. Medium bodied.

Tried from Bottle on 27 Sep 2017 at 13:49


6.5
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle courtesy of kermis, shared with Maakun. Hazy amber with no head. Grainy, bready, yeasty and moderate orange/tangerine fruity and alcoholic. Bit like cointreau. Quite sweet and bitter. Medium body and soft carbonation.

Tried from Bottle on 27 Sep 2017 at 13:33


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

7 3 7 3 14 Bottle shared. Dark amber with an off white head. Aroma of caramel, herbal notes, yeast, overripe dark fruits and malt. Taste is moderate sweet and bitter. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.

Tried from Bottle on 10 Aug 2017 at 16:11


5.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

33cl Bottle from Sterk. Slightly hazy orange-amber colour, off-white head. Aroma of dates, caramel, raisin, yeast, candy. Flavour is medium sweet, dry, fruity, date, candied fruits/ confit, sludge / dirt that I find in all their beers since they started brewing on their own kit, bitter finish. Light to medium bodied. Not great.

Tried from Bottle on 31 May 2017 at 06:26


6.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

(Draught at In De Wildeman, Amsterdam, 23 Feb 2017) Amber colour with frothy, off-white head. Malty, fruity nose with notes of citrus, orange peel and caramel. Malty, fruity taste with citrus, orange, apricots, caramel and a balanced citric, earthy bitterness. Medium body, with a certain sweetness. Tasty and fresh, but on the sweet side. Quite nice.

Tried on 15 Mar 2017 at 15:56


7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

33 cl bottle @ home. Deep amber color. Off white head with pretty good retention. Aroma’s of toasted malts and fruit candies. Retronasal it’s sweet, sweet berries, toasted. Flavor is moderate sweet and light bitter. Medium bodied. Finish is slightly dry, light bitter.

Tried from Bottle on 24 Feb 2017 at 15:11