Umbel Ale
(has 2 batches)
Nethergate Brewery in Long Melford, Suffolk, England 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
6.00
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Freshly toasted coriander seeds are added to the grist and at the later stages of the boil, resulting in a festival of flavour and aroma. This delightful beer is a real thirst quencher, and is particularly good as an accompaniment to curry.
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7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle picked given to me as a gift. A friend bought this at the Shakespeare’s Globe Theater. The bottle says Shakespeare’s Globe Ale, and the back says it’s brewed by Nethergate, and this is the only beer i can find brewed by nethergate, that is 3.8%, and has coriander in it. Ok, i digress........
Big aroma of coriander, and lemon, with a touch of spicy hops. Flavor is sweet, but also a bit sour. The coriander dominates with the beer ends with a nice slightly tart lemon aftertase. Interesting beer, something you could really drink alot of i think. Nice offering, i’m quite glad to have been able to try it.
Big aroma of coriander, and lemon, with a touch of spicy hops. Flavor is sweet, but also a bit sour. The coriander dominates with the beer ends with a nice slightly tart lemon aftertase. Interesting beer, something you could really drink alot of i think. Nice offering, i’m quite glad to have been able to try it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Feb 2025
at 05:02
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Gylden. Lavt tett skum. Tynn teppelacing. Beskjeden sitrusaroma. Smaken sitrus & vanilje. Tørr, lett bitter avslutning.
Tried
on 18 Feb 2023
at 15:29
Historic check-in
Tried
on 11 Jan 2023
at 08:23
6/10
Tried
on 20 Oct 2019
at 21:18
7/10
Tried
from Cask
on 13 Mar 2018
at 13:42
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Backlog rating from bottle collection and historic scoring. Source not recorded. No tasting notes kept, just rating.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Oct 2017
at 15:26
5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Hazed nutty color with a thin off white layer on top. Mild intensity in the aroma. Medium light body and a quite soft carbonation level. Tad sweet and a moderate bitterness. Caramel malty, fruity and some herbal (coriander) notes in the flavor.
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Tried
on 06 Dec 2016
at 03:27
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Cask at the Red Lion, Whittlesford. Copper coloured with a white head. Grassy aroma, taste is coriander with a little orange. Decent, but noticing spectacular
Tried
from Cask
on 26 Jan 2015
at 16:51
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at the Live and Let Live, Cambridge. Golden brown with a larger-than-usual white head. Honeyed grassy smell with a hint of cinnamon and orange peel. Slightly sweet at first, the taste turns more bitter toward a dry finish. The flavour of ground coriander asserts itself in the taste without dominating the profile. Body is weaker than I would have liked. Decent, well crafted and very drinkable.
Tried
from Cask
on 15 Nov 2014
at 03:49
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
From cask at Crosse Keys. Pours clear and golden orange with a small white head. Aroma is mild toasted malty. Bitter. Crisp fruity. Mild sweet impression. Crisp hoppy. Light bitter and hoppy finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 15 Aug 2014
at 02:17