Double Dragon
Felinfoel Brewery in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
5.83
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A light golden ale with fresh flavour and distinct citrus overtones brewed using crystal malt and challenger and wgv hops.
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4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle: poured into an ’Abbot Ale’ glass tankard. The best before date wasn’t complete on the cap, but Sept 2011 seems the best bet, the review was carried out on 7 Jan 2011. Rather red in colour for a ’Pale Ale’, clear and clean looking. The white head left before it arrived. Malts in the smell, with red berries as the beer warms, but nothing very strong. The rear label mentions toffee and nutty flavours within the beer, some toffee maybe, but certainly no nuts for me! Those red berries appear in the taste too (as do those toffee mentions), the malts are also there, but lack depth within the flavours. Some hop hints, but again nothing powerful and without nuts. Expected more from ’The National Ale of Wales’ and I’m sure the cask version is a whole lot better, if I remember correctly (but it was many moons ago).
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Apr 2012
at 13:35
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at home in London. Pours clear, light golden-brown with a soft, white foam head. Some toasted dough in the nose, light toasted grass and faint berries. Light sweet flavor, faint caramel and toffee, toast, mild prunes. Light bodied with fine, crisp carbonation. Pleasant, crisp finish, lightly bitter with toasted grass, mild toffee, faint nuts, light leaves. Slightly bland character but pretty drinkable overall.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Mar 2012
at 14:33
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 2
Overall 7
Clear amber color, small off-white head. Decent smell, nice taste. The beer just has no body. Real pity cause it’s a good beer, but it desperately needs a little more.
Tried
on 08 Aug 2011
at 08:43
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5
50cl bottle. Pours a bright amber colour with steady bubbles and a good head. The nose has grapes and light caramel. The taste hashay, then sultanas, followed by green grapes and a biscuity finish. The palate is light to medium in structure and taste and fairly refreshing on the end. Overall, a pleasant session ale but nothing exciting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jun 2011
at 16:07
4.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
500ml bottle. Pours dark orange with a thin, soapy head. Aroma is soapy malt. Bready malt start and some fruity malt in the finish. Watery. Not that good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jan 2011
at 15:26
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
275ml bottle from Sainsburys. Copper colour, off-white head. Aroma full of caramel malts. Flavour is caramel malts, a bit bready, spicy, little hops. Medium carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Nov 2010
at 13:35
6.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 2
Overall 6.5
Caramel and butterscotch aroma. Clear amber almost copper color, medium yellow head, good lacing. Pronounced toffee flavor. Watery mouthfeel very tinny finish.Atypical British bitter. Rather than having a nice texture and mediochre flavor, this tasted good, but was watery.
Tried
on 20 Jul 2010
at 20:42
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
bottle, bought somewhere in South Wales. Clear amber colour, mid-sized beige head. Aroma of caramel and citrus hops. Medium-bodied, malty, hints of roasted malt, caramel and citrusy hop flavours, shy hints of walnut. Well-balanced.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 May 2010
at 13:25
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Can (thanx to Quack-Duck!): Amber coloured, medium-sized beige loose head; moderate, but distinctive malty and hoppy nose, accompanied by nuts and fruits; moderate bitter-sweet flavour, light to medium bodied; increasing dryness in the bitter-malty, slightly nutty finish. Good session beer.....
Tried
from Can
on 07 Oct 2009
at 08:57
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle 50cl. @ home.Light light unclear medium amber orange color with a large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, nutty, toffee, dark berry notes, moderate hoppy, old dusty hops, light to moderate yeasty. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery - oily, carbonation is soft. [20090302]
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 May 2009
at 02:49