Riggwelter (Bottle)
(Batch of Riggwelter)
Black Sheep Brewery in Masham, North Yorkshire, England 🏴
Strong Ale - English Regular|
Score
6.95
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Riggwelter has a wonderfully complex palate with hints of coffee, bananas and liquorice combining for a classic Golding hop finish.
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
A - liquorice coffee choc roasted malts F - chocolate, dried fruits nice balanced bitterness dark copper off white head
Franclh (7604) reviewed Riggwelter (Bottle) from Black Sheep Brewery 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Fles 50cl thuis. Roasted malts, noot, fruitig, bittertonen, hoppig, citrustonen, wat chocolade, licht oily, redelijk droog. (14-10-2022).
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
# 3190; 9/2022. Malty, roasty, dried fruits, nuts, light earthy aroma. Brilliant copper body; persistant off-white head. Nutty, malty, chocolate, fruity, earthy. Very good british strong ale. 0,5 l, bottle, supermarket, Lincoln (Lincolnshire, England).
Botza (2939) ticked Riggwelter (Bottle) from Black Sheep Brewery 3 years ago
Rubin77 (10243) reviewed Riggwelter (Bottle) from Black Sheep Brewery 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
50cl bottle from Stonemanor, The British Store near Brussels. F: medium, tan, good retention. C: coppery to brown, clear. A: malty, nutty, fruity, dried fruits, bit herbal. T: medium malty base, fruity, herbal, leaves, spicy touch, toast, bit bready, coffee touch, decent bitterness, soft to medium carbonation, very nice balanced, fully enjoyed.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at home – gift from my brother. Pours a dark chestnut with ample cream head and good lacing. Mainly malts in the aroma with some hints of dried fruit. Sweet and fruity initially in the mouth, with raisins, parkin and a touch of treacle. Hints of choclate too, with a burst of hoppy bitterness later, before the fruity sweetness returns in the finish. This is a pretty decent ESB type beer.
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Riggwelter (Bottle) from Black Sheep Brewery 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
At last I meet this ur-classic English strong ale: Black Sheep's Riggwelter, the name apparently referring to a sheep - a historically important species of livestock in Yorkshire - which has rolled onto its back and cannot get up anymore, a somewhat tragicomic image still depicted on the front label and no doubt hinting at the potential consequences of having too many of these in a row. Thick and dense, very frothy and pillowy, irregularly but tightly lacing, pale greyish beige, extremely stable head on a crystal clear (obviously filtered), deep and dark ruddy-bronze beer with copper red glow and fine, visible sparkling throughout. Aroma of wet toast, warm wholemeal bread, clear pasteurization (cooked cloth), burnt raisins, dried peppermint leaf, tea, clove, dried plantain slices, crushed pecan nuts, hints of glazed beetroot, coffee grounds, butter, walnut skin, old liquorice candy, dried tarragon. Lively carbonated in the onset, very minerally, almost sparkling water-like, with restrained fruity notes (more from malt than from yeast effects in this case), vague touches of pear, plantain and dried apricot but remaining very low in sweetness; very slick, smooth but full body, oily, with layers of bread-crusty, hard-caramelly and (more than anything) toast-like malts effortlessly gliding over the tongue. The toasted bitter factor proves especially prominent, seemingly about to take a bitter-chocolatey direction at first, but never actually going there and instead developing something lightly coffee-like; this malt bitterness gets enhanced by the hops of course, which in the end add a significant layer of herbal, leafy, or (as the late Michael Jackson put it) indeed 'minty' bitterness on top of the toasted malts. The bitter leaf hop effect matches very well with the warming toasted bitterness from the malts, a simple but very effective combo, actually prolonging each other in the finish. Ends dry, but still a tad juicy and 'fruity' (even vaguely caramel-sweet) too, due to the sheer maltiness of this beer. It may be hard for an average Belgian to associate the word 'strong' with a beer still comfortably below 6% ABV - but I tirelessly and painstakingly familiarised myself with the other great historic beer cultures of Europe back in the day, and for me it is self-evident to switch off that 'I grew up in Belgian beer'-button in my head when confronted with an English classic like this; surely it is a potent beer enough, the English equivalent of a Belgian dubbel so to speak, but one I could chug down a lot more of than this 50 cc bottle. Too bad for the filtering and pasteurisation, adding this layer of industrialism over a deeply and beautifully malty-hoppy brew - I really need to find a 'real ale' version of this, if such a thing exists in the first place... Anyway, like a strong nothern brown ale of sorts, a classic in its own right, glad I finally got to know it - and I sure enjoyed it. Cheers!
kapusil (2812) reviewed Riggwelter (Bottle) from Black Sheep Brewery 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
0.5l bottle many thanks to Lore. Dark orange/brown body with a pearl head. Dried fruits like dates and raisins in the aroma with a generous amount of caramel and a touch of floral hops. Taste of raisins and dried dates again with tracles, orange zest and more hops than what you'd expect based on the aroma. Not so strong, but packed with flavors. Very nice.
DavrosIX (1314) ticked Riggwelter (Bottle) from Black Sheep Brewery 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
500ml bottle and my 500th England rating. Ruby-brown colour, small off white head, nice retention. Aroma of chocolate, roast, raisons. Taste is fairly sweet, malty, stone fruits, toastiness. Surprisingly has a light refreshing quality to it. Dry moderately bitter finish. Good.