Christmas Is Cancelled
Steel City Brewing in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England 🏴
Brewed at/by: Tool Makers BreweryBitter - ESB / Strong Bitter Winter Out of Production
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Score
6.88
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An antidote to the rancid malty ales full of spices that have no place in beer that are inflicted upon us at this time of year. Intense Magnum bitterness, Late Pacific Jade and Centennial, and a shedload of Green Bullet dry hop. Remember, a hop is not just for Christmas...
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6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle shared at the Cotteridge convention, 24/01/2015. Thanks to EvilEmpire. Murky golden / orange coloured pour with a lasting thin white head. Aroma is sweert berrt, big of citrus and and slightly harsh earth note. Flavour is composed of dirty earthy hop, resin, bit of farmyard, grainy. Palate is medium full body with moderate cardbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jun 2015
at 16:40
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle shared at the Cotteridge Convention 2015. Pours light hazy yellow with a foamy white. The nose holds dry citrus and white pepper. Light sweet flavor with heavy minerals, lemon rind, hay. Light bodied with fine to average carbonation. Lightly sweet on the finish with more heavy and distracting minerals, some pithy citrus. Not bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Mar 2015
at 06:47
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle split at the Cotteridge Convention, thanks to Dave UP - Evil Empire, 24/01/15. Hazed golden blonde with a decent off white covering. Nose is tangerine, citric sherbets, grassy linger, hoppy pangs. Taste comprises a big mineral wash, orange pith, straw, tangerine, citric rinds. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, earthy hop rinse in the close. Decent hopped up pale.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Feb 2015
at 03:46
8/10
Tried
on 05 Feb 2015
at 05:24
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle at the Cotteridge Convention big thanks evilempire. It pours hazy gold with decent white head. The nose is big citrus, particularly grapefruit, some grass, hop spice and some creamy rice pudding thing going on. The taste is crisp, big bitter hit upfront... earth, grassy green hops, straw, resin and some sweet tropical action with a lingering dry finish. Medium body and moderate carbonation. Crisp and damn bitter. No not your typical English Xmas offering! Good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Feb 2015
at 08:21
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Gravity cask at Elysian Winter Beer Festival, Ely, 2015. Golden/orange, without a lot of head. Peaches, apricot and cereal dominate the scent. Bittersweet taste with a slight sour note at the end. Medium palette. This is quite good, although maybe not to everyone’s taste.
Tried
from Cask
on 31 Jan 2015
at 08:13
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
24th Jan 2015: shared bottle at Cotteridge Wine meet. Poured a hazy gold with an off white pillow on top. This is all about the hops and there are plenty hanging around in this brew. They cancel each other out a little though, loads of grapefruit in the aroma and taste but that overshadows the tropical fruit like attributes of other hops varieties. Still a nice beer, and different, but just over hopped for my palate (I am old apparently).
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Jan 2015
at 10:52
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle at Cotteridge wine convention; hazy golden yellow pour with a foamy off white head, tropical fruit aroma, taste has grapefruit, tangerine, mango and pine, a real hop assault on the senses.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jan 2015
at 11:23
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
500ml bottle. Pours light hazy gold with a thin head. Aroma is piney toilet cleaner hop. Taste is bitter with green hops. Piney and pissy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jan 2015
at 07:02
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Beer Central, Sheffield. Label states 5.8%. Very hazy gold. No head. Big, fresh, oily hop. Quite leafy and grassy. Some orange peel. Hint of lemon zest. I might be skewed by drinking this at 4 o’clock on Christmas Eve morning, having just finished work, but this does smell quite festive! Taste isn’t as bitter as the IBU suggests. There’s a big hit, first off, which mellows, balanced by a spicy biscuit malt backbone. Palate is oily, and full. Soft carbonation, in keeping with the oiliness. Finishes long, zesty bitter. Very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Dec 2014
at 21:55