Grumpy Santa Beer
Cottage Delight in Leek, Staffordshire, England 🏴
Brewed at/by: Staffordshire Brewery (prev Leek)Bitter - ESB / Strong Bitter Regular
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Score
6.04
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Grumpy Santa is a wonderful, premium golden bitter with a satisfying home-brew tang, enough to snap any Santa out of their sulky state.
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5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Nose is lightly spicey, lightly floral and honey. Taste is lightly bitter, floral, slightly medicinal leading to a spicy finish. The nose is nice but it doesn't really follow through feeling almost acidic.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Jan 2024
at 22:45
5.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 8
Texture 4
Overall 5
Sweet malt aroma, with a hint of caramel, pours deep gold with virtually no head. Sweet and sugary flavour, with a bite of hop bitterness and possibly a hint of spice. Drunk completely unseasonally in May because, well just because
Tried
on 05 May 2020
at 19:53
3.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Bottle shared in Hammel with the in-laws - pours a clear golden colour with almost no head. Grainy and grassy twiggy subdued hoppy, corn sweetness, papary cardboard like, notes of rotten veg, light watery body, not many redeeming features here. --- Beer merged from original tick of Grumpy Santa on 26 Mar 2025 at 07:36 - Score: 3
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Dec 2018
at 18:41
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle courtesy of Mum and Keith, consumed at home Saturday 14th January 2017 Pours gold/amber with a slim white filmy head, soft in the mouth. It’s another beer from this outfit that’s actually ok. I feel like I was going to have downer on this brewery but they’ve turned out to be ok, I knew it was never going to be a world beater, it just has a light fruitiness, very little in the way of hops, not much bitterness, it’s fine. A6 A4 T6 P3 Ov12 3.1
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jan 2017
at 10:50
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
13th February 2016 Thanks to my in-laws for this one! Bright clear gold - amber beer, tidy pale cream colour head. Palate is light, mildly dry and is finely crisp. Thin malts bring a mild tangy caramel, not that sweet. Ripe fruits in to a very mild floral bitterness. Light dry finish. Entertaining. 3.2
18th February 2024
Clear amber beer, decent cream colour head. Airy palate, mildly dry, decent fine carbonation. Pleasingly bready malts, a little malts cream and modest caramel. Whisper of estery sweetness before some mellow citrus and spice, Goldings like bring things to a close. Gimmick beers from a marketing point of view but they are put together by brewers who know what they are doing. Traditional but really rather nice.
18th February 2024
Clear amber beer, decent cream colour head. Airy palate, mildly dry, decent fine carbonation. Pleasingly bready malts, a little malts cream and modest caramel. Whisper of estery sweetness before some mellow citrus and spice, Goldings like bring things to a close. Gimmick beers from a marketing point of view but they are put together by brewers who know what they are doing. Traditional but really rather nice.
Tried
on 20 Feb 2016
at 12:32
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Appearance: Light golden brown. Clear. Tiny bit of head.
Aroma: Sweet malt, not much else.
Taste: Malt, some sweetness. Standard.
Bought: Gift from Mrs, 500 ml, £?.??
Info: 12/6-2015, BB: 30/9-2015
Aroma: Sweet malt, not much else.
Taste: Malt, some sweetness. Standard.
Bought: Gift from Mrs, 500 ml, £?.??
Info: 12/6-2015, BB: 30/9-2015
Tried
on 15 Jun 2015
at 10:32
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
500ml Bottle: BBD the end of June 14. This Christmas present was opened late on 7th Jan 14 and poured into an Abbot Ale tankard at home while everyone else slept. Slight haze to my golden/amber brew, the head a thin white covering that soon became a wisp and collar. Piney hop nose with a citrus front, that citrus smell carries on into the taste and almost hides the biscuity maltiness that is within the flavours once the beer calms down in your mouth. A bit too citrusy for my liking, but others love those lemon and lime like flavours from whatever hops the brewer chooses to use: it’s not something I’ll have again but it suited the sliced ham with herbs and Welsh cheese I had with it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jan 2014
at 16:49
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
50cl bottle from Longacres, Windlesham. Pale amber with a white head; citrus aroma; caramel citrus taste; with a clean finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jan 2014
at 14:30
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle at Deans Winter Shelter Tasting. Poured a crystal clear medium amber with a bubbly white head. The aroma is creamy caramel hop. The flavour is medium bitter with a smooth malty hop bitter palate. Medium bodied with light carbonation. Ideal for a session.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Dec 2013
at 11:52
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Sampled from bottle @ Deans Winter Shelter Tasting. Clear golden color, small white head. Smell and taste malts, lightly hops, lightly bitter, lightly fruity. Not bad at all, a lot better than expected.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Dec 2013
at 11:51