Ogham Willow
Celt Brewing (formerly Celt Experience) in Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, Wales 🏴
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.06
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
330 ml bottle. Best before 03/01/2014! may be a tad old... Pours a hazy reddish mahogany with moderate head. Aromas of bready malts, brown sugar, and cookie spices. Flavors follow same; very malty but with an element of bitter herbal/earthy hops. Can't say US hops... More like the flavors of a British barley wine at this point - but that ain't bad.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Bottle from Beermoth, Manchester. Amber with sediment and a small frothy head. Very strong tasting with an aroma that indicates this too. Hoppy with a tropical fruit here, but malt-infused too.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Red brown colour, cream head. Aroma of honey, Madeira, red fruits. Bitter flavour, malts, marmalade. Finish marmalade and honey.
(from bottle @ criso’s place, RBESG ’14 visit)
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle on the train from PRAF 2013. Pours copper amber, sweet toffee and caramel, bitter.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle from Ales by Mail. Bright amber pour with a white head. Rich aromas of summer fruits and sweet spice. Boozy/bitter mouthfeel. Lots of fruit and spice in the flavour. Oodles of alcohol warmth. Good stuff.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle at home, 28th November 14. Pours dark amber, looks good. Aroma is rich, piney hops. The taste is resinous, pine sap, sweet and mellow notes, some bitterness in the finish that lingers to leave a really well balanced beer. The palate is full, rich slightly sticky. Great DIPA
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at home in London. Pours clear yellow-gold with a creamy white head. Lots of gooey, ripe citrus in the nose, some toasted bread, wood. Medium to big sweet flavor with moderate piney bitterness, some toasted crackers, honeydew, some caramel, bread. Full bodied with fine to average carbonation. Warming finish, thick and resinous, with plenty of lightly toasted bready malts and crackers, some aged pine, ripe orange. Not bad.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Frisch hopfiger, etwas malziger Antrunk mit alkoholischem Touch. Dunkel, schwer, Honig. Wenig herb, süßlich, unsüffig. Zum Ende hin klebriger, runder Hopfen. 8/11/11/11/10/11
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle shared at ChrisO. Hazy dark orange to reddish color, average sized off-white head. Smell and taste malts, hops, pine, resin, bitter. Medium body and carbonation. Quite heavy on the malt and piney hops I think.