Upside Brown
Exmoor Ales in Wiveliscombe, Somerset, England 🏴
Brown Ale Regular|
Score
6.51
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A sweet, malt-focussed dark brown ale, with caramel and toffee malt complexity and a slightly sweet initial taste which lingers until a slightly bitter dark malt finish.
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3.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Gravity cask at Maltingsfest 2023, held in Newton Abbot. Pours clear chestnut brown with a beige cap. Malty, brown bread, treacle hints, dried fruits, with brown sugar, nuts. Light to medium sweet & medium+ bitter. Dry taste, earthy. Medium body with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Cask
on 23 Apr 2023
at 20:38
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
[Cask at the Hope Tap (JDW), Reading.] A chestnut coloured pour with a ring of beige head; aroma of Demerara sugar; quite dry in the mouth with a bitter, burnt treacle taste; and a rather thin malty finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 11 Apr 2023
at 14:34
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at JDW The Holland Tringham, Streatham (26/03/2023) - JDW Spring Fest 2023 - sweet and toasted malty with notes of fudge and caramel, light brown sugar, medium body and soft cask carb, light hoppy and sweet malty finish. Ok brown .
Tried
from Cask
on 10 Apr 2023
at 09:56
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Beer 6,800. Cask at the Duke William, Stourbridge. Pours dark brown with a small head. Aroma is nutty coffee. Taste has dusty cocoa, slightly nutty in parts.
Tried
from Cask
on 09 Apr 2023
at 18:40
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask-conditioned, on gravity, at the Commercial Rooms (JDW), Bristol March 2023. Deep brown in colour with a slight, off-white, head. A malty brown ale, with brown sugar, and some traces of dried fruit and toastiness before a gentle finish. Good.
Tried
from Cask
on 02 Apr 2023
at 08:44
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at the Hope Tap, Reading. Reddish-brown with yellowy beige head. Brazil nuts, black coffee granules and a hint of vom on the nose. Tasting introduces coffee syrup, hazelnut and some creosoted fence panels. Decent condition, but mouthfeel is a little watery and yet a little oily. Overall... yeah, I quite enjoyed it apart from that initial hint of vom. Although as this was in a Spoons, maybe that came from the old guy slumped at the next table.
Tried
from Cask
on 31 Mar 2023
at 08:32
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at the moon under water Watford Jdw. A clear chestnut brown coloured pour with a lasti g khaki cap. Aroma is nutty brown bread, chocolate, malt loaf, raisin, rye bread. Palate is semi sweet lihjt tang, decent cask condition. Flavour is composed of layered malts, brown bread, rye, treacle, chocolate. Bark. Decent.
Tried
from Cask
on 30 Mar 2023
at 12:36
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Cask at Standing Order, Derby. Pours a dark ruby with a small cream head. Mainly nuts in the aroma, with some hints of yeast. Caramel and dark fruits in the mouth, with a texture like gravy. Later there is a slight bitterness and hints of floral hops and treacle. Gets a bit watery as well. Finish is bitter and slightly dry. This is nice.
Tried
from Cask
on 26 Mar 2023
at 16:56
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask @ Commercial Inn, Sowerby Bridge. Mid brown with a reddish glow and an off-white creamy head. Has well enough stated brown malts within a very easy drinking darker malty texture.
Tried
from Cask
on 25 Mar 2023
at 19:20
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Hand-pulled half-pint in the Shrewsbury Hotel (a Spoons) on 20th March 2023. Deep brown body, slightly hazed, weak off-white head. Malty molasses rule the nose and taste, some bittering hops for balance, not as exciting as I'd hoped for.
Tried
on 20 Mar 2023
at 18:38