Old Bob
Ridley's in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England 🏴
Strong Ale - English Regular|
Score
6.19
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This succulent premium ale has a wonderful blend of hops that give spicy and citrus fruit flavours leading into a dried fruit and biscuit malt finish. Twice a gold medal winner at the British Bottlers' Institute Awards.
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4.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
500ml bottle. Pours a dark caramel with no head. Aroma is skunk, boiled sweets, caramel and vanilla. Taste has some raisin to start with caramel on the finish with some grass.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jul 2011
at 15:47
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle at home in London with Lyoli. Pours rich chestnut with a small, foamy white head. Holds a rich toffee aroma with doughy malts and distant, ripe fruits. Light to medium sweet, with toasted biscuits and earthy, leafy and slightly herbal bitterness. Medium bodied with average carbonation. Finishes dryly with notes of burnt candy, toast and some herbal, earthy hops. Pretty nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jul 2011
at 12:00
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Sample @ CBF. Nice head with good duration. Color is amber. Aroma and taste are rich caramel, malt, malt and hops.
Tried
on 28 May 2011
at 09:09
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
7th May 2009
Reddish amber clear beer. Semi dry palate. Nicley balanced toffeeish malt with a smooth but subdued hop counterbalance. Creamy malt in the finish and an aftertaste of fading hop.
Reddish amber clear beer. Semi dry palate. Nicley balanced toffeeish malt with a smooth but subdued hop counterbalance. Creamy malt in the finish and an aftertaste of fading hop.
Tried
on 30 Jan 2011
at 10:50
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle. Cherry-apple malt and light grass hops aroma. Clear chestnut color with small head. Sweet cherry-apple malt and moderately bitter hay hops flavor. Very nice body. Good ale.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Dec 2010
at 14:27
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle from Morrisons. Aroma is caramel malts, hint of wood. Copper colour, off-white head. Nose of caramel malts, metallic, sour fruits. Fairly bitter and dry finish. Average.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 May 2010
at 15:14
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
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Tried
on 16 Apr 2010
at 15:24
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
bottle, kindly donated by pivnizub! Clear amber-red colour with a small head. Fruity nose. Medium-bodied, malty background with lots of aromatic and bitter hops with a citrusy touch.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Feb 2010
at 13:33
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottled (thanks to the craziest bartender in the world). Golden amber colour with mediumsized fluffy/foamy head that leaves some nice lace. Aroma is caramel malts, some mild toffee as well as mild oak wooden notes. Flavour is sweet caramel malts, some fudge, mild grass and even some kind of stingy sweetness, not exactly alcohol, but something kind of close to that kind of sweetness. Smooth palate.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jul 2009
at 16:26
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle 50cl.Clear medium amber color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, sour caramel malt, dusty, whisky - bourbon - fudge. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20081229]
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Mar 2009
at 16:00