Early Bird (Bottle)
(Batch of Early Bird)
Shepherd Neame in Faversham, Kent, England 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
6.25
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Bierkoning (17700) reviewed Early Bird (Bottle) from Shepherd Neame 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle. Amber color, long lasting frothy head. Somewhat earthy aroma with a bit of hops. Just a bit of citrus. Light hoppy flavor with citrus and a dash of butter. Butterscotch aftertaste. Decent ale.
PMgep (4081) ticked Early Bird (Bottle) from Shepherd Neame 10 years ago
Erzengel (18597) reviewed Early Bird (Bottle) from Shepherd Neame 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Rating from 2010:
Dunkelgoldene Farbe, toller Geruch wie eine frisch geöffnete Tüte Doldenhopfen. Faszinierend grasig-aromatisch-frisch. Der Antrunk ist herb-hopfig, sehr angenehm hopfenintensiv. Im Hauptteil ist das Bier aromahopfig-herb, insgesamt aber leicht wässrig im Körper, dabei aber toll herb-aromatisch. Der Nachgeschmack ist lang, toll grasig-herbe Aromahopfennoten. Ganz leichte Ale-Töne, für meinen Geschmack aber etwas zu wenig, was auch dem dünnen Körper des Bieres geschuldet ist.
--> Sehr tolle Idee und tolles Hopfenaroma. So richtig toll frisch!! Aber insgesamt etwas wässrig neutral - außer dem tollen Hopfenaroma ist da nicht viel!
--> 12,13,12,10,12,12 - 11,85
Vignale (8447) reviewed Early Bird (Bottle) from Shepherd Neame 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Gammal recension från 2009. Drucken med ölföreningen. Ljus bitter med lite extra engelsk humle. Dock karamellig malt kropp, typisk för SN med en torr, stram och fruktig på ett omoget sätt. Fin om man gillar UK-humle.
Nightfall (2276) reviewed Early Bird (Bottle) from Shepherd Neame 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle @ Too many Geuze’s - only one toilet , Ulfborg 2012. Day 2. Golden color with a small fast diminishing white head. Sweet malty, lemony hops, grassy , toffee, moderate bitter.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle from Morrisons, Sidcup. Amber pour with a white head. Bake apple and pear aroma. Orchard fruit flavours, quite malty. Fruit filled finish.
laiti (11645) reviewed Early Bird (Bottle) from Shepherd Neame 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5
50 cl bottle (4,5%) @ home, BBE 02/2013
Aroma is sweetish, hoppy and rather typical to Shepherd Neame ales with grainy malt and some toffee. Palate is too high on CO2. Flavour has toffee, some hops, grainy and bready malt and ripe peaches. Dry and somewhat nutty finish. No surprises here.
BlackHaddock (17491) reviewed Early Bird (Bottle) from Shepherd Neame 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Clear 500ml bottle with an ABV of 4.5%, best before Feb 2009, drank May 2008. Poured into a Forbidden Fruit Chalice, just because I can! Good clear light amber colour, not much of a head though, pity. Floral aroma with a good hop content, also yeasts at the begining, before the pour, that aroma faded as the beer sped into the glass. Spritzy, almost sharp. Very refreshing, ideal for a warm spring evening, luckily that is what we have at the moment in the UK, so this has gone down very well. The hops come through, but not enough to ruin the other delicate flavours that are in the beer, grapefruit and sweet citrus tones abound. Mouthfeel isn’t to strong, there is a presence of alcohol and the hops/citrus flavours do stay a while. However it doesn’t have that extra feel to make me want another pint straight away. So drinkability is only average too. I drink with my eyes, the loss of any head prevented this beer getting higher scores from me.
daniele (14510) reviewed Early Bird (Bottle) from Shepherd Neame 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
oro buona schiuma un po grossolana piuttosto persistente naso un po citrico leggero toffee malto un tocco di luppolo discreto amaro non molto fragrante
fonefan (85107) reviewed Early Bird (Bottle) from Shepherd Neame 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle 500ml. clear glass.Clear medium amber orange colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, caramel, light hoppy, grass, orange - citrus, light toffee. Flavour is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20120128]