Formidable Ale (FA)
(has 2 batches)
Cains in Liverpool, Merseyside, England 🏴
Bitter - ESB / Strong Bitter Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.07
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Cains FA is no small beer: despite its deceptively pale golden colour, it boasts a big, smooth flavour and strong punch. Brewed with the finest English malts, and conditioned in cask with dry hops to produce fresh hop aromas and a fuller flavour, delighting the mouth and stimulating the tongue.
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6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
DØE. Clear golden with a white head. Aroma is sweet, malty and moderate hoppy - fruity. Flavor is medium sweet and moderate bitter. Dry and moderate bitter finish. 100512
Tried
on 21 May 2012
at 10:12
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Copenhagen Beer Festival, 2011. Pours clear copper with a small creamy off white head. Caramel, bread and grain. Medium bodied. Easy . .
Tried
on 07 Jun 2011
at 01:17
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Cask at the Old Manor (JDW), Bracknell - ABV 5.0%. Bright straw with a compact white head; grainy aroma with some tropical fruit; syrupy in the mouth, with more grainy, floury, tastes and a little fruit; then a lightly bitter finish. Not very exciting.
Tried
from Cask
on 13 Feb 2011
at 10:13
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
500 ml bottle, as Cains FA Formidable Ale, from Voldby Købmandsgård, Denmark. ABV is 5.0%. Golden brown colour, moderate white head. Moderate aroma of biscuity malts, a little fruit, toffee and "dusty" hops. The flavour has very much the same elements as the aroma. Pleasant to drink, but does not blow your socks off.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Feb 2011
at 07:52
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Bottle: Amber coloured, off-white stable foamy layer; hoppy and malty nose with a cardboardy touch; moderate to solid dry bitter flavour, light bodied; harsh, almost adstringent, dry bitter finish with traces of vegetables. Absolutely disappointing.....
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Oct 2010
at 22:49
5.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask (handpump) @ Charlies Bar, Pilestraede 33, Copenhagen, Denmark.ABV. 5.0% Clear medium orange color with a small, virtually none lacing, fully diminishing, white to off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, fruity, nutty, light hoppy, citrus - orange. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. [20100410]
Tried
from Cask
on 04 Oct 2010
at 23:28
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at KØ10. Fruity aroma. Clear golden colour. No head. Good fruity flavour. Subtle but refreshing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jul 2010
at 08:15
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottled@CPH BeerFest2010. Golden colour, small head. Aroma is fruits, wood, some toffee as well as maltyness. Flavour is quite the same. Nice UK IPA with a quite biting bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 May 2010
at 10:41
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle 500ml.Clear medium orange yellow color with a average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is light moderate malty, grain, toasted, light to moderate hoppy. Flavor is moderate sweet and light bitter with a average duration, sweet malt. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20100506]
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 May 2010
at 11:28
6.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
clear orange, smooth white head. faint aroma of hops, flowers. flavor is sweet flowery, balanced. even chocolate in it, faintlicorice, well balanced.
Tried
on 11 May 2010
at 11:07