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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6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask @ JDW Elgin 221012
Amber, clear, dense white head, some lacing
Aroma - Coriander, citrus hops, soft orange, floral hop, peppery herbs
Taste - soft pale sweet fruity malts, bitter light zesty hop, some black pepper, soft oramge, dab of coriander initially, certainly not bland here - after a while it gets TOO herbal and peppery and rather overpowering
Palate - soft carb, thin to medium body, quite oily. Finish as main flavour, lingering fairly bitter herbs, black pepper, orange, long bitter quite complex linger, long long herbal linger, almost tingly bitter.....it’s harsh but there a lot of flavour in there
Overall - Interesting beer, lot of flavour, puzzled by comments below that its bland....maybe its very inconsistent or I had an unusually strong flavoured batch. Too overpowering after a while and gets hard to drink. Rather flawed to be honest
Amber, clear, dense white head, some lacing
Aroma - Coriander, citrus hops, soft orange, floral hop, peppery herbs
Taste - soft pale sweet fruity malts, bitter light zesty hop, some black pepper, soft oramge, dab of coriander initially, certainly not bland here - after a while it gets TOO herbal and peppery and rather overpowering
Palate - soft carb, thin to medium body, quite oily. Finish as main flavour, lingering fairly bitter herbs, black pepper, orange, long bitter quite complex linger, long long herbal linger, almost tingly bitter.....it’s harsh but there a lot of flavour in there
Overall - Interesting beer, lot of flavour, puzzled by comments below that its bland....maybe its very inconsistent or I had an unusually strong flavoured batch. Too overpowering after a while and gets hard to drink. Rather flawed to be honest
Tried
from Cask
on 24 Oct 2012
at 12:21
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
12th July 2012
Chelmsford Beer Festival. Light haze on this amber beer. Residual suddy white head. Palate is slightly crisp and fairly dry. A little marmalade citrus underneath. Fairly dry finish. Somewhat strange beer. Lightly perfumed like coriander.
Chelmsford Beer Festival. Light haze on this amber beer. Residual suddy white head. Palate is slightly crisp and fairly dry. A little marmalade citrus underneath. Fairly dry finish. Somewhat strange beer. Lightly perfumed like coriander.
Tried
on 29 Jul 2012
at 04:52
5.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Flaske 0,5l kjøpt på Tesco Kensington og drukket hjemme 23 Mai 11. Gyldenbrun med et høyt luftig skum. God parfyme/appelsinaroma. Innbydende. Smaken er et steg tilbake. Litt vassen og krydderet (koriander) kommer tydeligere fram. Kan minne om appelsinskall. Ettersmaken litt tørr - og mer koriander. Et annerledes øl, men ikke helt vellykket.
Tried
on 04 Dec 2011
at 23:15
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
50cl bottle from Tescos, Hastings. Amber with a tight cream head and moderate carbonation; a touch of vegetable to the aroma; rather sweet with some herbs, presumably coriander, and some pleasant, lightly bitter hops giving a drier finish; the texture is incredibly soft and smooth. Very pleasant.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Aug 2011
at 10:17
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask@The Chequers, Oxford. Golden colour, creamy small white head, that leaves good lace. Aroma is fruity, malty, mild coariander and some slight spicyness. Flavour is coriander, wood, some spices, mild malts and quite nicely balanced.
Tried
from Cask
on 26 Jul 2011
at 04:23