Dent Brewery Ramsbottom Strong Ale

Ramsbottom Strong Ale

 

Dent Brewery in Dent, Cumbria, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  Bitter - ESB / Strong Bitter Regular
Score
6.03
ABV: 4.5% IBU: - Ticks: 27
This rich and complex, chestnut coloured beer has a warming, dry finish to follow its unusual combination of sweet and bitter flavours. A coffee aroma, with hints of fruit, precedes chocolate malt, dried fruit and hops, which vie for attention in the taste.
 

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4.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Bottle at ash’s. Pours deep amber, nose is quite foul, like a farm, burnt dung, sour, taste is sweet, cereal, toffee. I understand the name now.

Tried from Bottle on 08 Apr 2016 at 08:29


5.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

500ml bottle shared with Ashton McCobb and Stuu666. Pours clear dark amber with a thin white head. Aromas of burnt dung, treacle, something sour. Appropriately named so far. Taste is marginally better, sweet finish.

Tried from Bottle on 08 Apr 2016 at 08:29


6.5
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

500ml bottle from Booths, Windermere - Deep ruby red body, no head - shame. Nose comes through as strong cake fruits, lots of robust malts and a slight nuttiness there too. Taste is rather sweet at first, but pans out to a bitterness at the end. Fruity, bit of a kick of sharp citrus, and possibly a bit of burnt toast in there as well.

Tried from Bottle on 12 Sep 2015 at 04:13


6.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

9th July 2015
Chelmsford Beer Festival. Cask. Lightly hazy amber beer, small pale cream colour head. Palate is smooth with decent fine carbonation. Nice condition. Pretty sweet malts, mild cream and mild toffee. Tangy but sweetish dried fruits. Little candy fruits. Light semi dry finish. Pretty sweet but okay. And 4.5% is strong? Hello it’s not 1940 any more!

Tried from Cask on 15 Jul 2015 at 13:11


7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Clear brown coloured ale with a small head. It has a lovely soft coffee aroma and similarly gentle smooth taste.

Tried on 29 Mar 2013 at 15:05


6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Cask at the Grape and Grain Autumn beer festival, Crystal Palace. Reddish-brown pour with a white head. Cherry and raisin aroma. Toffee and raisin flavour. Fruity finish.

Tried from Cask on 09 Oct 2012 at 06:44


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

From BA: Feb 2008 with an update at the back from Feb 2012: Brown 500ml bottle, unable to read the best before date, hope it was OK. Poured into a Corsendonk tulip glass twice, because I can. Lovely dark brown colour, mahogany wood brown, no head, just a collar almost straight away. I like to have a head on my beers though. The aroma is all about the malts used in the brew, rich toasted almost burnt smell, warming is another way of putting it. The taste doesn’t live up to the richness of the aromas, still flavoursome and very malty none the less, hops also appear within taste, a sweetness comes into the beer as it warms too. Maltiness apart, there is very little to this beer and you would never guess it had 4.5% within. Was expecting more from this, not as good as I’d hoped, average at best. Update 17th Feb 2012: Had a pint (Cask) last night and really enjoyed it. Those malt flavours I mentioned in the original review were still in major control but the overall tasting was a lot more balanced and if I’d been scoring the beer on last nights findings it would have been higher in every box apart from the smell score which would have stayed at 4.

Tried from Bottle on 10 May 2012 at 13:01


6.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle. Toffee malt aroma with a hint of spicy hops. Clear chestnut color with small head. Sweet creamy toffee malt flavor with a light peppery finish. Medium body. Not bad.

Tried from Bottle on 29 Aug 2010 at 09:56


4.8
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Bottle 500ml. [ Vintage 2005 ]. Clear medium amber color with a small, frothy - fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, cardboard. Flavor is moderate sweet and light light bitter with a average duration. Body is medium to light, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft. [20100730]

Tried from Bottle on 11 Aug 2010 at 23:24


4
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

50 cL bottle, 2006 vintage. Pours clear and golden brown with a fully gone head. Aroma is caramal and oxidised. Dry malty, breadish too. Ends oxidised and dry malty.

Tried from Bottle on 08 Aug 2010 at 01:23