We salute 100 years of naval aviation dedicated to the unswerving courage of the crews of the Fairey Swordfish torpedo bombers, which were launched from aircraft carriers during the Second World War to attack the enemy battle cruisers Bismark, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, risking their lives against impossible odds.
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Grumbo (24387) reviewed Swordfish (Bottle) from Wadworth 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle from The Goat & Tricycle, Bournemouth. Backlog rating from bottle collection and historic scoring. No tasting notes kept, just rating.
Leighton (34941) reviewed Swordfish (Bottle) from Wadworth 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at home in Hackney- sourced via Ocado. Pours clear copper with a bubbly off-white head. The nose holds toasted brown bread, English yeast, some crackers, hay. Light-medium sweet with more toasted malts, faint toffee, suggestions of citrus, orange, melon, light bitterness. Light bodied with average carbonation. Nicely balanced finish, with more lightly toasted bread, semi-ripe citrus fruits, orange rind, British yeast. I find this really enjoyable.
wheresthepath (3674) reviewed Swordfish (Bottle) from Wadworth 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle from the brewer’s own stand at the Good Food Show at Birmingham NEC. Amber, thin and fizzy. Biscuitty malts and not much else. Very much the poor relation of the cask version- you’d hardly know it as the same beer. Still drinkable though, but the pasteurization has not done it any favours.
LazyPyro (9998) reviewed Swordfish (Bottle) from Wadworth 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
500ml bottle. Pours a clear dark brown/red/copper colour, creamy off-white head, good lacing. Aroma is mostly malt... caramel, maybe a very slight hint of rum, but if the bottle hadn’t have said so I don’t think I’d know there was any. Same can be said for the taste, a pleasant malty flavour, any rum there is too subtle, maybe that’s a good thing... Overall it’s a nice beer but I was expecting something a little more interesting.
Stuu (34525) reviewed Swordfish (Bottle) from Wadworth 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle at home. Pours copper amber, nose is toffee, caramel, wood, taste is similar, light rum.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Swordfish (Bottle) from Wadworth 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Small, dense amberish cream head over totally clear reddish copper beer. Rich caramel & toffee nose, hint at diacetyl, shortbread. Toffee, but seriously watered down, and with an agreeable hoppy/parsleylike flavour, suggesting freshness. Leafy too, no doubt again the coloured malts talking. Diacetyl is fairly imperceptible in the mouth, if not completely gone. Toffee remains in the aftertaste for a while, but in the very end, only a harsh bitterness, dissolved in water remains. Feels better carbonated than it looks; light body, but very slick. It might not be real ale, it’s far from bad all the same - exception made for the poor aftertaste.
Olut (21769) reviewed Swordfish (Bottle) from Wadworth 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Golden ale that loses its head fast. Fairly ordinary with a dominant bitter character, but with a sweet nose and a slight spiciness in its flavour, which probably accounts for the name, but there are no obvious rum elements.
Reubs (35480) reviewed Swordfish (Bottle) from Wadworth 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
(500ml Bottle) Pours gold/amber with a small off-white head. Aroma/taste Carmel malt, dried fruit hop rather sour undertones, only hint of rum. Ok to average.
madmitch76 (40452) reviewed Swordfish (Bottle) from Wadworth 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3
17th February 2011
Bright clear amber - brown beer. Residual white head. Light palate, somewhat watery. Malt! Mild minerals. Mild cream in the watery finish. What Rum? Crushingly dull!