Swordfish
Wadworth in Devizes, Wiltshire, England 🏴
Bitter - ESB / Strong Bitter Regular|
Score
6.05
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Swordfish ale is a unique blend of Wadworth beer and Pusser’s Navy Rum (rationed to the Navy during WWII) with an ABV of 5%, perfect for those who like to enjoy something a little different.
It was originally brewed to support the 100th year anniversary of the Fleet Air Arm, but is now available all year due to its incredible popularity.
It was originally brewed to support the 100th year anniversary of the Fleet Air Arm, but is now available all year due to its incredible popularity.
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5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Cask at the Belle Vue, Wycombe, 29/05/16. Clear golden copper with a decent off White head. Nose is light caramel, grain, touch of bread, faintest of rum notes. Taste comprises light bread, fruit esters, biscuit, straw, toffee. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, semi drying close. So so ... doesn’t offer much - rum is hardly noticeable.
Tried
from Cask
on 30 May 2016
at 05:24
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at the Goat and Tricycle, Bournemouth. Pours clear dark copper with a bubbly off white head. Aroma of dark fruits, malt, light raisin and light earthy hops. Flavour is light to moderate sweet and bitter. Light to light medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Cask
on 24 Dec 2015
at 09:23
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
500ml bottle. Pours a clear dark brown/red/copper colour, creamy off-white head, good lacing. Aroma is mostly malt... caramel, maybe a very slight hint of rum, but if the bottle hadn’t have said so I don’t think I’d know there was any. Same can be said for the taste, a pleasant malty flavour, any rum there is too subtle, maybe that’s a good thing... Overall it’s a nice beer but I was expecting something a little more interesting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Nov 2015
at 23:09
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Tried at the Berkerley Arms, Tewkesbury. Reddish brown colour, small off white head. Malty aroma with a touch of fruit and toffee. Taste sweet malt.
Tried
on 20 Jul 2015
at 12:37
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Gravity cask at the Lady Lane Wharf beer festival, June 2015. Poured a clear copper colour with a broken white head. The aroma is yeast resin hop. The flavour is moderate bitter with a light malt, metallic resin hop bitter palate. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Cask
on 20 Jun 2015
at 14:34
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask half pint at the Tall Ship, Gloucester. Reddish brown colour, small off-white head. Malty aroma with a hint of toffee and rum. Malty and smooth flavour, some caramel and rum, very moderate hops.
Tried
from Cask
on 10 Apr 2015
at 15:09
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at home. Pours copper amber, nose is toffee, caramel, wood, taste is similar, light rum.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Mar 2015
at 02:52
4/10
Tried
on 01 Nov 2014
at 17:22
5.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Fra cask på Dirty Dick’s, Bishopsgate 26 Sep 14. Mørkebrun. Filmskum. Forsiktig plommearoma. Smaken er vassen. Svakt fruktig.
Tried
from Cask
on 08 Oct 2014
at 10:55
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Small, dense amberish cream head over totally clear reddish copper beer. Rich caramel & toffee nose, hint at diacetyl, shortbread. Toffee, but seriously watered down, and with an agreeable hoppy/parsleylike flavour, suggesting freshness. Leafy too, no doubt again the coloured malts talking. Diacetyl is fairly imperceptible in the mouth, if not completely gone. Toffee remains in the aftertaste for a while, but in the very end, only a harsh bitterness, dissolved in water remains. Feels better carbonated than it looks; light body, but very slick. It might not be real ale, it’s far from bad all the same - exception made for the poor aftertaste.
Tried
on 10 Apr 2014
at 11:14