Crimson King
Butcombe Brewery (Liberation Group) in Wrington, Somerset, England 🏴
Speciality Grain - Rye / Roggenbier Regular|
Score
6.12
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Call at the counting house. Pours clear copper, thin white head. Aromas of caramel and light herbs. Taste is more caramel, biscuit. Slightly chalky aftertaste. Ok.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Aroma: 6 Look: 3 Taste: 7 Palate: 3 Overall: 13 2.6 to 3.2
Cask @ Black Bull JDW, Bangor [080917]
Dark amber, clear, dense off white head
Aroma of soft fruity malts
Taste of soft fruity caramel malts, soft toffee, light red fruits, dab of light toasted malts
Palate - medium body, light sweet, soft sweet fruity malt tail
Overall - Easy going, quite decent
Cask @ The Spinning Mule JDW, Bolton [301014] 5/3/5/3/10 2.6
Caramel ruby brown, clear, thin dense white head
Aroma of slight red fruits, very weak nose
Taste of soft caramel, light red berries, bland
Palate - Medium body, light sweet. Finish as main flavour
Overall - Found this very bland and dull, no brewing defects though
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Cask pint in a Shrewsbury Wetherspoons on 6th Nov 2014. Poured a bright, clear deep amber/copper with a ruby hue, with a thick off-white head. Aroma of sweet malty molasses with caramel to the fore. The Rye comes into play in the taste, dry and grainy in nature with hints of fruitiness from the hop content. Not really my thing, but it was not a bad brew, just not for me: scored objectively.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Cask at the Standing Order. Pours amber, nose is sweet toffee, taste is toffee, floral.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cask at the Queen Hotel (JDW), Aldershot. Reddish copper with a thin cream head; strawberry fruit aroma; soft in the mouth with more berry fruits - raspberry and blackberry, and some caramel; and a dry, bitter, but disappointingly thin finish - otherwise a pleasant bitter.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Cask @ the Bankers Draft (JDW), Bedford. Amber/brown, clear with very little head but quite a big of lacing. Aroma has som rose petal/strawberry notes that rise above the basic cereal malt aroma. Fruity bittersweet taste with a bitter/sour finish. Traces of red wine, cola, and cardboard. Interesting and certainly good enough but far from exciting.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Cask at the Willow Walk, JDW - London. Pours clear, deep russet with a frothy, off-white head. Pleasant aroma with notes of toasted bread, dried berries, nuts and earth. Light-medium sweet flavor with subtle crunchy leaf bitterness, some toasted grains, ripe and dried fruit, berries, peanut shells. Medium bodied with fine carbonation; good condition. Nicely balanced on the finish with further toasted bread and grains, soft nuttiness, some dried fruit sugars, old leaves and earth giving some balancing bitterness. Good, rounded bitter.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Cask at the standing order... Copper... Thin tan head... Soft zezty fruits nose.. Sweet fruits.. Soft toffee
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
14th October 2014
Earl Of Essex. Cask. Almost clear amber beer, residual pale tan head. Palate is light and dry and reasonably crispy from decent fine carbonation. Light malts. Whisper of lactose like sweetness. Mild red berry fruits seamlessly blend with orangey hops and mild floralness, Smooth and semi dry finish. Tasty and drinkable if a tad dry, good bitter!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cask handpull at Knights Templar Spoons. Clear brown colour lasting beige head. It’s a decent fruity malty red beer. Fairly tasty malts are there but not overly heavy. Some peppery hop on the finish. It’s fine. Better than average but lacks a little bit of racing excitement.