Heritage Vintage Fine Ale (Chevallier Series)
Greene King in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England 🏴
Strong Ale - English Special|
Score
6.89
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Reintroduced two years ago by local maltster, Crisp Malt, five preserved Chevallier seeds were re-sown and crops harvested to create the volume required to replicate a traditional Greene King real ale from the 1800s. Vintage Fine Ale is a rich, flavoursome beer, enhanced by biscuity notes from Amber malt with a hint of caramel. Classic English late hopping varieties Fuggle, Bramling Cross and Goldings add soft fruits, floral and spicy notes to create this rich, complex and full-bodied Vintage Fine Ale.
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6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle: Poured a coppery with a beige huge head, very carbonated. Aroma is fruity, sweet malts, toffee, light metallic. Taste is high fermented fruit, rich sweet malt, little leafy tobacco. Finish is dry and tingly.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Jul 2020
at 17:55
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at home in Hackney - picked up at Waitrose. Pours clear copper-gold with a frothy, off-white head. Malty and moderately sweet, with notes of toasted bread, caramel, low bitterness, British yeast. Medium bodied with fine to average carbonation. Sweet and bready on the finish, some toffee. Drinks fine.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Apr 2020
at 20:12
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 6.5
Bottle from the now closed Waitrose in Oadby. Ruby and clear with a fairly large but uneven beige head. Vinous medicinal aroma, with some suggestions of stone fruit and white chocolate. Taste is bitter and crisp with a touch of malty sweetness before the bitter, dry finish. Some TCP in the aftertaste. Nicely carbonated. Not normally my sort of thing but this is a lovely well-attenuated beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jan 2020
at 23:26
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Tight creamy light tan head stayed on a clear dark copper coloured still body. Minimal aroma of malt, Medium bodied, well carbonated with a tight aerious feel & dry clean back. Caramel, toffee, raisin, bread, berry & vanilla tastes.
Tried
on 21 Sep 2019
at 19:42
9/10
Old skool. Very sweet. Nice bitterness. Great malt. Nicely hopped. Soft malts. Super
Tried
on 17 Aug 2019
at 21:23
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Karamelliger, herb-hopfiger Beginn. Gerade der Hopfen steigt an, bitter-würzig, etwas holzig. Mittellanger Abgang, weich. 10/11/11/11/9/11
Tried
on 27 Jun 2019
at 19:09
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
50cl bottle from Pastures Discount Foods. Thick white head. Hazy golden pour. Slightly sour.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 May 2019
at 21:10
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 6
18/3/2019. Bottle from my local Tesco. Pours clear deep amber with a small off-white head. Aroma of malt, caramel, hops, bread, hint of chocolate, resin and light spiced fruit cake. Medium sweetness, light to moderate bitterness. Medium body, oily texture, average carbonation. Finish is sweet, toffee, malty. Not bad. Like a weak barley wine.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Mar 2019
at 14:11
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Copper coloured pour with a beige head. Nose of vanilla, spice, caramel. Flavours of sweet spice, tobacco, orchard fruit. Malty bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Jan 2019
at 20:34
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pint bottle from Englands own Tesco Supermarkets. Pours a clear amber, with a confident cream coloured collar. Sweet toffee malt on the nose. Taste is chevalier malt-lead with lots of burnt toffee with woody moments. Nice soft intertwined bitterness. Dare i say it this is a cracker.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Dec 2018
at 21:31