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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5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
500ml bottle from Booths, Knutsford. Gold colour with thin white head. Metallic empty candy sugar aroma with some hay hop. Some fudge. On cask I rather like this. In bottle it’s empty and metallic. Some fullness from malt and alcohol. Has some tingly citrus on finish. Metallic carbonation sets my teeth on edge.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Mar 2007
at 07:49
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Half on gravity at the 24th Ipswich Beer Festival. Has a brownish coloured body. Missing foam. Light spicy aroma. Hoppy fruit and dried fruit - raisin - in flavour with a spicy mix. Moderate to full bodied (21.09.2006).
Tried
on 13 Oct 2006
at 13:36
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6
(Cask at Dr Duncan’s, Liverpool, 26 July) Copper colour with little head. Nose is fruity with grapefruit and lemon, slightly lactic butterscotch aroma. Hm? Nose is fruity with citrus (lemon, grapefruit), rather short citrussy finish. A bit unbalanced but fairly ok taste, probably not in its best shape.
Tried
from Cask
on 08 Aug 2006
at 16:04
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask handpull at Doctor Duncan’s, Liverpool. 5.0% drunk whilst sat in the Victorian tiled room overlooking the neo-classical magnificence that is St George’s Hall and the Central library. Golden with lasting white head. A well rounded Eglish golden strong ale. Slighty perfumed hop aroma. Full in mouth, slightly creamy. Syrupy fruit which underlies the pale malts. Satisfying and well made
Tried
from Cask
on 29 Jan 2006
at 11:53