Brilliant Ale (Bottle)
Shepherd Neame in Faversham, Kent, England 🏴
Pale Ale - Classic English Regular|
Score
6.06
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A pale golden ale. Brilliantly bright and hoppy, brewed with 100% pale malt and the choicest East Kent Golding hops.
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6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Pours clear golden with airy off-white head. Clear aroma of malt and hops, with notes of fruit and herbs and some estery touches. Bitter, hopy flavour with sweetish notes of malt and bready touches, complemented by some dusty and mildly acidic hints. Bitter and estery aftertaste. Drinkable and clean but nothing really impressive.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Feb 2015
at 12:49
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
500ml bottle from Beers of Europe. Pours clear gold, thin white head. Aromas are creamy, butter-y sweet, preserved lemon. Taste is light sweet, honey, caramel. Light body, buttery finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Feb 2015
at 09:36
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle thanks to allmyvinyl. Appearance - golden amber with a nice fluffy head. Nose - apple and biscuits. Taste - biscuit and more biscuits. Palate -light to medium bodied with a crunchy texture and a fairly good finish. Overall - solid but unexciting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Feb 2015
at 09:33
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle from Waitrose. Deep gold, with a slight, white, head. Sweetish caramel and hedgerow fruit aroma. Flavour had boiled sweet notes, some more fruit and a touch of biscuity malts, before a moderately bitter finish. Lacked body for the 5.6% ABV, but ok overall.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Jan 2015
at 11:23
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle, at Cockney Pub. A clear, golden beer topped by a finger-thick white head. The aroma is malty, with some toffee. Piney, fruity hops. Pineapple hints. It’s too sweet in the mouth I think, even though there’s a nice bitterness. Fruity hops, pine cones and a malty backdrop. Medium body, nice carbonation. A beer that feels both sweet and dry at the same time. And unfortunately doesn’t give me anything. 140804
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Dec 2014
at 15:01
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
0,5L bottle. Pours clear golden-amber with white head. The head stays. Aroma is fruits, malt, sweetness, hay, and caramel. Flavor is sweet, fruits, citrus, malt, nuts. Finish is fruity-nutty-dry bitter. Carbonation is rather high. Overall: ok-ish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Nov 2014
at 18:12
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle 500ml. [ As Shepherd Neame Brilliant Ale ].Clear medium amber yellow color with a average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, hay, pale malt, light hoppy, toffee notes. Flavour is moderate sweet and light bitter with a average duration, pale malt, old hops (UK hops), fruity. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20140523]
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Nov 2014
at 23:22
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle at Mabel’s Tavern; clear golden amber pour with a frothy white head, big malt aroma, taste light citrus, sweet honey pale malts, ok.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Oct 2014
at 09:22
4.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
500ml bottle at home by myself early morning (just after midnight) on 15th Oct 2014. Yet another clear golden coloured beer with a citrus bent. I am truly bored with them. This one has less lemon and lime/grapefruit/orange flavours and feel than a lot, but it still pushes citrus notes throughout the brew. I like the alcohol level and it’s over carbonisation but otherwise it leaves me cold.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Oct 2014
at 16:11
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Piwo o sredniej ale trwalej piance sporym o dziwo nagazowaniem. Jasno bursztynowe lub ciemno zlote w barwie. Smak goryczkowy ale za dlugo sie jednak nie utrzymuje. Piwo ogolnie wytrawne malo slodowe. Fajna stylowa etykieta
Tried
on 12 Oct 2014
at 07:29