The Cranborne Poacher
Badger Brewery (Hall & Woodhouse) in Blandford St Mary, Dorset, England 🏴
Bitter - ESB / Strong Bitter Regular|
Score
6.32
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They say there’s no such thing as a free meal – but as you wind your way through wooded hills towards the tiny village of Cranborne, you might chance upon a charming rogue who says differently.
For years, the Cranborne Poacher has roamed these parts, outwitting both authority and prey in pursuit of pilfered plums and a pheasant for his pot.
Crystal and chocolate malts provide a full-bodied taste with sweet, complex flavours of damson and liquorice.
For years, the Cranborne Poacher has roamed these parts, outwitting both authority and prey in pursuit of pilfered plums and a pheasant for his pot.
Crystal and chocolate malts provide a full-bodied taste with sweet, complex flavours of damson and liquorice.
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6/10
Tried
on 07 Aug 2016
at 16:48
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
500ml bottle. Dark brown with a thick head. Strong spicey aroma with tons of damsons and plums. Taste is bitter and more spiced plums. One of my favourite bottled ales.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Jul 2016
at 15:17
5.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Bottle at home. Pours clear amber with a thin white head. Aromas of raspberry jam, toffee, light spice, sweet cordial. Taste is sweet too, lots more red fruit. Too sweet for me.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jul 2016
at 11:43
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
500ml bottle. Clear amber colour with a one-two finger white head. Aroma is sweet and fruity, red berries, plum, almost like a fruit cider. Taste of liquorice, berry fruits, plum, malt. Medium body and carbonation. Sweet and fruity. A little unbalanced, the dominant flavour seems to be liquorice which is a bit weird, probably needs more spiciness, hops. Too sweet.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jun 2016
at 15:31
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle. Appearance - deep amber with a nice fluffy head. Nose - initially some cardboard but then burnt toffee sweet orange. Taste - orange and honey. Molasses and black jack sweets. Palate - medium to full bodied with a rich sweet but tangy texture and the finish Overall - best I’ve had from this brewer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Mar 2016
at 17:32
4/10
Tried
on 13 Nov 2015
at 15:27
5.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Reddish copper colored, strong beige creamy head. Aroma is of Haribo gummy bears, sweet candy sugar and some fruits. Taste is medium to strong sweet sugar candy, caramel, some mixed fruity-berry notes and herbal low bitterness. Light to medium bodied, and soft carbonation.
Tried
from Can
on 20 Oct 2015
at 03:30
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6
0,5 l bottle. Reddish bronze with a good foam. Fruity aroma, a little pharmacy-sulfur, caramel, slightly spicy, something like licorice. Taste sweet, with blackberries, currants, red grapes, blue plum, caramel, some grassy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Mar 2015
at 04:51
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Big beige head. Clear deep reddish brown body. Perfumy wild berry and fruit aroma with candy and chewing gum notes. Sweetish perfumy artificial red berry and fruit taste with oily notes. Mid-bodied. Mild, soft mouthfeel. Dry metallic perfumy red berry aftertaste with spicy green apple notes. I really don’t like this style of perfumy, artificial ales, but there’s no denying it’s well made, and something about the sweet fruitiness appeals to me, even through all that perfume. (0.5l bottle, from Waitrose, Canary Wharf, London.)
Tried
from Can
on 27 Jan 2015
at 12:46
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Clear, reddish-amber beer with a foamy off-white head and a pungent, sugary fruit aroma. I feared from the smell that the flavour would be overpowering or sickly but it’s not. I think it’s the liquourice, which I’m not usually a fan of, which balances out the tangy fruit enough to stop that happening. It’s not one I’d rush back to because it is a touch sweet for my taste but it’s not bad.
Tried
on 12 Jul 2014
at 16:56