Gale's Prize Old Ale - Madeira Barrel Aged
Marble Beers in Salford, Greater Manchester, England 🏴
Collab with: Fuller's BreweryTraditional Beer - Old Ale Regular
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Score
7.31
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Brewed in collaboration with John Keeling and with the kind permission of Fuller's, Gale's Prize Old Ale is brewed to the original recipe and aged with Gale's unique brettanomyces culture. This edition is aged in Madeira wine barrels.
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7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from Beerdome. Aroma is fairly heavy on the Madeira wine with surprising funk, oak, grapes, malt, and various tart red fruits. Flavour is vinous tartness with a moderate sweetness and a mild sourness. Body is above medium. Madeira makes a great barrel appearance here, with plenty of wood and funky notes. Complex and vinous, intriguing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Feb 2025
at 10:33
3.8/10
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Appearance 3
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 3
Overall 16
Bottle online from the source. Pours opaque chestnut brown with a decent beige cap. Aroma: dark fruits, prunes, oak, grapes, funk, caramel. Taste: moderate sweet & light to moderate bitter. Sour, tangy, dark fruits, prunes, grape must, oak, madeira barrel. Medium body with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Dec 2022
at 23:15
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. Brown color. Malty sweet, soft roasty flavor. Caramel, a hint of metal, madeira. A hint of oak, soft herbal notes. Shyish aroma, somewhat vinous. Caramel and vanilla.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Aug 2019
at 08:41
10/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Dec 2018
at 10:34
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Color: Dark brown, off-white head. Aroma: Sweetish, caramel, vinuous notes, Madeira. Taste: Medium sweet, malt, caramel, dried dark red fruit, apple, bread. Clear Brett notes. Light hints of raisins and nuts, sweetish and slightly sour red wine notes (Madeira, I presume), boozy hints. Medium body, below average carbonation. Quite nice. I think it is interesting to know the story about it on https://www.marblebeers.com/prize-old-ale/ to fully understand and appreciate this beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Aug 2018
at 19:45
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
330 ml. bottle. Dark brownish orange amber, bigger head fizzes away. Nose is rotting fermenting fruit, spoiled wine, rotting oak, fermenting fruit & some odd sugar somewhere in there. Taste is rotting fruit, grape, pomegranate with sweet rotting wine, booze, spoiled fruit,.. Weird body. I really enjoyed the bourbon version but this one felt weird & off for me and not correct. Not sure if it just not my thing or something went off here but it is not my thing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Jul 2018
at 19:46
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle 330ml. @ [ Hackney post-Pig's Ear Tasting ] - The Leighton House, Hackney, London. [ As Marble / George Gale & Co. Prize Old Ale Madeira Barrel Aged ].Clear medium amber colour with a average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, sweet malt, caramel, wood, dried fruit, wood - oak, alcohol. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet with a long duration, sweet malt, caramel, dried fruit, wood, alcohol, bread. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft, finish feel is light alcoholic. [20171205] 7-3-8-3-16
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 May 2018
at 13:16
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
5th December 2017
Pigs Ear after party at Chez Smith. Light haze on this deep amber beer, small pale tan head. Airy palate, semi dry and with decent fine carbonation. Thin dry creamy malts. Tangy ripe fruits. Modest madeira soaked ripe fruits and a touch of sherry. Tangy finish brings mild wood and spice. Nice beer, perhaps not quite as enchanting as the others in this series.
Pigs Ear after party at Chez Smith. Light haze on this deep amber beer, small pale tan head. Airy palate, semi dry and with decent fine carbonation. Thin dry creamy malts. Tangy ripe fruits. Modest madeira soaked ripe fruits and a touch of sherry. Tangy finish brings mild wood and spice. Nice beer, perhaps not quite as enchanting as the others in this series.
Tried
on 27 Mar 2018
at 07:03
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
BOttle at home ,,, copper .. thin tan lacing ... soft woodyty toffee caramel toffe malt nose ... soft sweet toffee malts ... woody tofee.. ligth tart green riasins
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Mar 2018
at 20:22
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle at home. Pours deep orange amber, nose is floral, oak, light fruit, caramel, taste is similar, little thin.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Mar 2018
at 14:59