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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5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
(bottle) Clear, amber colour with a mid-sized tanned foamy head. Sweet, slightly cara-malty aroma with notes of lemon, tangerine, flowery hops as well as a touch of coriander. Moderately bitter flavour, light bodied with a medium carbonation. (Cara-)malty and moderately citrus-fruity taste with bearable notes of coriander; quite dry and bitter spicy finish. The coriander is dispensable in my -umbel- opinion (18.VIII.09).
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Aug 2009
at 16:48
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
clear orange, small white head. aroma is fruity, spicy, flowery. flavor is sweetish, sourish. clear orange, large offwhite head. re-rate. app+1 sourish citrussy dough like aroma, sort of a little like a radler. flavor is coriander, flowery hops, some bitterhops, small malty balance, ends citrussy bitter and spicy. Alone it is not tasty at all, but it would probably work well with thai and chinese food.
Tried
on 29 Jul 2009
at 16:31
5.5/10
24/7/2009. Cask at the Green Dragon Ale Festival, Croydon.
Tried
from Cask
at
Green Dragon
on 23 Jul 2009
at 23:00
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
500ml bottle, bb. Oct.09, from Centra, Colosseum Park in Oslo. Frothy, white head of foam that stays quite well. Fine display of laceworks. Misty, golden-amber body. Dry aroma of herbs and flowers. Fruity flavour with hop resin, coriander and, in fact, hints of cactus (as in Bitter and Twisted). Some notes of earthy malts beneath. Smooth, but still lingering aftertaste, of hoppy fruits with a light dry bitterness to it. Well balanced. Summer drink with a pleasant, unusual taste (Tromsø, 09.06.2009).
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jun 2009
at 14:17
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. A clear, golden beer with a small, off-white head leaving some lacings. Almost soapy on the nose, with fruits and citrusy, a spiced note, some malts and a ginger-like scent. Soapy, citrusy flavor with some pale malts and pinecones, ginger, and a little bitterness towards the end. Soapy, medium-bodied mouthfeel. Maybe it could work nicely as a refresher, it’s a decent beer, but too strange to be downed all night. (090422)
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Apr 2009
at 03:04
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
50 cl bottle at Bredaryds Wärdshus on April 25, 2009Clear copepr color, white head. Malty, acidic,, grainy, hoppy, spicy scent. NEttle, acidic, hoppy,spicy taste. Honey aftertaste. Medium to moussy mouthfeel, low bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Apr 2009
at 08:57