Ale
Black Sheep Brewery in Masham, North Yorkshire, England 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
6.52
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Premium Amber Ale | 4.4%
Black Sheep Ale: The One and Only
The product of 200 years of brewing experience and a family rebellion, brewed to challenge convention. Born iconic: proper beer, done properly.
The embodiment of Black Sheep: quality ingredients brewed in a unique way – distinct flavour characteristics come from our now-rare Yorkshire Square fermenting vessels. Malt character leads with sweet biscuit and caramel, complementing fruity raisin and pear drop notes from our house yeast. Goldings hops finish off the fruitcake-like flavours with hints of earthy bitter orange. Complex, balanced and incredibly drinkable.
Black Sheep Ale: The One and Only
The product of 200 years of brewing experience and a family rebellion, brewed to challenge convention. Born iconic: proper beer, done properly.
The embodiment of Black Sheep: quality ingredients brewed in a unique way – distinct flavour characteristics come from our now-rare Yorkshire Square fermenting vessels. Malt character leads with sweet biscuit and caramel, complementing fruity raisin and pear drop notes from our house yeast. Goldings hops finish off the fruitcake-like flavours with hints of earthy bitter orange. Complex, balanced and incredibly drinkable.
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7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Very English ale and a great classic in its style, as is clearly attested here. Creamy, off-white, stable head, colour a deep orange blonde with copper hue, clear. Nose gets flowery hops, cake, pear, whisky, gooseberry, caramel, bitter honey. Taste a soft and gentle fruitiness, some apple, honeyish and caramelly malts, towards the finish a widely spreading oily and aromatic hoppiness, very pleasant, soft and flowery and lasting for quite a long time.
Tried
on 30 Jul 2014
at 12:54
8.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle. Clear amber body with an off-white head. Steady carbonation. Faint lacing. Aroma of toffee, earth and dried fruit. Flavour of copper, caramel and a hint of chocolate. Thin to medium body with a slick mouthfeel. Light fizz. This is delicious. A great value bottle beer, which I’ll bet is great in cask.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jul 2014
at 02:06
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Reviewed from notes.
This was poured into a pint glass.
The appearance was a nice hazy golden orange color with a one finger white foamy head that dissipated within about a minute. There was some light foamy lacing that trickled down the glass in a nice speckled sort of way.
The smell had some nice light fruity and slight sweet nuttiness. The soapiness normally smelled in English pale ales is tamed fairly well in this one.
The taste was mainly sweet through the fruits and nuts.
On the palate, this one had a super long dry and sweet finish with a fairly decent sessionability about it.
Overall, nice English pale ale that would probably be a go to for me if I lived in the distro of this thing.
This was poured into a pint glass.
The appearance was a nice hazy golden orange color with a one finger white foamy head that dissipated within about a minute. There was some light foamy lacing that trickled down the glass in a nice speckled sort of way.
The smell had some nice light fruity and slight sweet nuttiness. The soapiness normally smelled in English pale ales is tamed fairly well in this one.
The taste was mainly sweet through the fruits and nuts.
On the palate, this one had a super long dry and sweet finish with a fairly decent sessionability about it.
Overall, nice English pale ale that would probably be a go to for me if I lived in the distro of this thing.
Tried
on 16 Jul 2014
at 01:26
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle from Tesco. Poured a clear medium amber with a thin white head and some broken lace. The aroma is light creamy malt, hop. The flavour is medium bitter with a malt hop bitter palate. Medium bodied with average carbonation. A decent session beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Apr 2014
at 12:03
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Appearance- clear, amber, big white pillowy head which leaves loads of lacing. Lots of aroma- zesty, zingy, lime, lemon, floral hints, citrus. Taste- fruity, smooth, hint of bitterness, orange peel, bit of carbonation, hops. Bitterness lingers for a bit. Not bad, better smell than taste.
Tried
on 14 Apr 2014
at 08:10