Trooper Light Brigade (Bottle)
Robinsons in Stockport, Greater Manchester, England 🏴
Golden / Blonde Ale Regular|
Score
6.19
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IRON MAIDEN vocalist and ale aficionado Bruce Dickinson and Robinsons’ Head Brewer, Martyn Weeks have crafted LIGHT BRIGADE a unique interpretation of a sessionable golden ale. At 4.1% ABV in 500ml bottle, LIGHT BRIGADE is lower in ABV but still has all the powerful flavours you’d expect from TROOPER.
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6.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 10
Overall 5.5
Bottle at home, koszi Tomi! Pours clear golden with quickly disappearing white head. Nose is peppery, herbal notes, light esters too. Taste is surprisingly bitter (well, considering), showing herbal hoppy notes, but also there’s a hint of malts in there. Long lasting bitter and dry finish, light body. Perhaps a but dumb, but not that bad actually.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Mar 2025
at 12:21
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle at Jack's Music Bar, Zwolle. Aroma is a bit fruity with pale malt, a little citrus, and some floral notes. Flavour is mild sweet and fairly bitter. Light to medium body. Decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Feb 2025
at 11:56
6.5/10
Thanks Dan F.! My second English golden 🏴🥇 this one is significantly more bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 May 2024
at 19:57
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottled (from K-Market Näätämö). Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is cooked vegetables, some floral and earthy notes. Flavour is mildly metallic with some cooked vegetables and mild earthy and floral notes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Oct 2023
at 18:24
01/08/2019. WHITTLE TAPS, 1-3a Regent Street, CHELTENHAM, Gloucestershire, England (STONEGATE)
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Jan 2023
at 16:21
6.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
Pours blonde, clear. Small, creamy white head with a good stability. Scent is English malts, tad caramelly (hints), bready, coockiedough, Little hop herbalness. Clear fermentation profile. Taste is medium. Surprisingly bitter. Crystal malts, tad caramelly, doughy. Not much hoparoma though, more of the bitterness. Not very complex or deep, hints of an unnatural sweetness, malts don't seem particularly fresh either. OK , but less than average.
Tried
on 05 Feb 2021
at 13:10
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
0.5 l bottle from Vrutak, Zagreb. Shared with Jolly Rogers. Clear golden, small off-white head. Herbs, leaves, earth, cardboard, perfumy. Dry and hoppy flavour, also malty. Herbal and earthy hops, leaves. Light bitterness. Light body, moderate to high carbonation, light finish. A bit light and empty, resulting in a higher and sharper bitter profile.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Jan 2021
at 18:34
6/10
Tried
on 30 Dec 2020
at 16:00
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Flasche 0,33l: Kräftiges Gold, glasklar, mäßig stabiler feinporiger Schaum; frische + leicht fruchtige Nase, recht mild, fruchtige Süße, Malz, Malzzucker, etwas Karamell, dezente Hopfennoten, helle/exotische Früchte, leichte Zitrusnoten, Brot, Brotteig, malzig-fruchtige Bitterkeit; leicht fruchtiger + recht milder Körper, leichte trockene Hopfennoten, trockene Zitrusnoten, Malz, Getreide, cremig, deutliche Kohlensäure, trockene Säure; angenehmer würzig-trockener Nachgang
Tried
on 01 Oct 2020
at 13:55
7.4/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Sep 2020
at 17:21