Busy Fool (Bottle)
Davenports Beer in Smethwick, West Midlands, England 🏴
Bitter - ESB / Strong Bitter Special Out of Production|
Score
6.53
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BlackHaddock (17284) reviewed Busy Fool (Bottle) from Davenports Beer 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Classed as a Premium Ale by the brewery this 500ml brown bottle was reviewed on 6th Aug 2010, the best before date was Sept 2010. It was poured into a vase shaped pint glass (badged ’Old Speckled Hen’). The body was a lovely clear dark amber/ mid brown colour, the head creamy in colour and texture when licked. The aromas were of malts, lightly roasted/toasted and set aside for a while to mature. The beer gave off a caramel hue, not overly sweet, but getting that way. The taste was mostly malts, a hop bitterness was hidden away and almost arrived in the aftertaste, but malts dominated the intitial flavour finds and took over again later. Semi-sweet molasses come to mind in explaining the body and true flavours and it is certainly on the sweet side of the rails. One of the ingrediants is listed as ’No3 Invert Black Sugar’, the Fuggles and Mount Hood hops can’t quiet cope with the ammount of sugar used! I do have a sweet tooth and this beer was most enjoyable, could I have five in a row? No, but one or two would be fine.
berkshirejohn (10223) reviewed Busy Fool (Bottle) from Davenports Beer 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
50cl bottle from Tesco, Solihull. Golden brown with a ring of cream head; aroma of toffee and malt; fruity malt flavour with dusty plums, but rather thinly bodied; malty, rather jammy, finish.