Old Ale
Firebird Brewing Co. in Rudgwick, West Sussex, England 🏴
Traditional Beer - Old Ale Regular|
Score
6.99
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Dark And Full Of Chocolaty, Malty Character. Smooth And With A Lingering, Subtle Bitterness. A Sussex Classic.
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6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
500ml bottle from Real English Drinks. Gluten Free. Chestnut dark brown colour, foamy tan head and aroma of chocolate, malt, nutty, roasted. Taste is chocolatey, malty, roasty, ashy, with coffee and earthy bitterness. Medium bodied, soft foamy carbonation, drying roast nutty bitter finish. Quite drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Sep 2024
at 20:30
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pours a chestnut brown colour with a small frothy beige head that settled. The aroma is sweet malts, toffee and ripe berries. A moderately sweet taste, toffee, sweet malts, ripe dark and berry fruits with a hint of chocolate and a lingering mild bitter finish.
Tried
on 18 Mar 2022
at 20:30
8/10
Many thanks to Mark. Fantastic malty mild beginning. Very dry, chocolate malt, dry caramel. Very smooth, nice malty caramel with a smooth malty bitterness in the end. Great Ale characteristics, smooth and mild.
Tried
on 21 Feb 2020
at 16:02
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle from Growlers and Cans, Guildford. Sour fruit and malt aroma. Dark opaque cola brown. Creamy light beige head. Immediate sweet edged light sour hit, followed by a bitter streak. Advertised as chocolate and malt but for me it's sour berries that are most prominent. Chocolate only comes through in the finish. Light-medium bodied. Thin but slick. Average-fizzy carbonation. Long dry astringent finish. It's fine I guess. Keeps thing interesting but edging towards sickly.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 May 2019
at 06:47
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Cask handpull at John Logie Baird JDW Hastings. Clear dark chestnut dark brown beer. Lasting beige head. Good dark beer. dark malts and lots of dark berry fruit. touch of tar dark fruit skin tannin. good condition and temperature. damson BlackBerry. really good dark fruit. some burnt raisin. good.
Tried
from Cask
on 26 Jan 2019
at 11:23
7.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 8
On cask. Dark ruby body, light brown head. Aroma of caramel, cocoa, figs and cherries. Taste of cocoa, cherries, floral hops and toast. Nice beer.
Tried
from Cask
on 23 Jan 2016
at 02:48
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle thanks to allmyvinyl. Appearance - dark toffee with a big gushy head. Nose - toffee and biscuit Taste - toffee and biscuit with bitter chocolate and a slight booze note. Coffee finish. Palate - medium bodied with a creamy texture and a long dry finish. Overall - a lot on here for the low ABV.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Oct 2014
at 09:07
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle shared with AshtonMcCobb. I’m too Sussexy for this Tasting. Pours dark brown with a massive off-white head. Aromas of biscuit, toffee. Taste is dark chocolate, into instant coffee. Medium body, lingering sweet coffee finish. For the strength, there’s a lot going on.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Oct 2014
at 09:06
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Cask at EBF XVI, thanks to Glen for breaking school rules and sharing his pour, 07/11/13. Mid chestnut brown with a good sized light tsm head. Nose is toffee, biscuit, light spice, dark fruits. Taste comprises dark caramel, brown bread, biscuit, light spice. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, smooth on the palate, subtle bitter notes in the finish. Decent.
Tried
from Cask
on 18 Nov 2013
at 11:17