Bouchart X
Moon Gazer (Norfolk Brewhouse) in Fakenham, Norfolk, England 🏴
Mild - Dark Regular|
Score
6.90
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle from Beautiful Beers, Bury St Edmunds. Aroma is fruity - berries, dark fruit. A boozy edge. Pours clear chestnut, sits in the glass with a more opaque appearance. Thin foamy light beige head soons recedes. An initial bitter streak. Woody. Medicinal. Charcoal. This sits over a sweeter dark fruit core. Peripheral berry sourness. A boozy warmth and bite. Medium bodied. Oily. Average-soft-fizzy carbonation. Dry. A big astringent finish. Dows get rather medicinal but I don't mind that. It has character and a slightly odd one at that.
Garrold (11502) reviewed Bouchart X from Moon Gazer (Norfolk Brewhouse) 10 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 6
Excellent gets 7.6 ffs. Bottle from the petrol station in Brancaster Staithe that one day I’ll get round to adding on here. Although probably not. Anyway. Clear deep amber. Slim swirl of beige. Nose has some sweet toffee apple thing. Bit of sick. Taste is sweet. Little else. Doesn’t feel 10% to be fair but it’s not easy drinking. Slick and oily. Sweet surprisingly thin finish. Grim. Sink job.
Leighton (35102) reviewed Bouchart X from Moon Gazer (Norfolk Brewhouse) 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle shared in Canary Wharf - cheers to Kenneth. Pours clear gold-brown with a small, foamy head. Medium sweet flavour, nicely malty, a little toasted toffee, earth. Medium bodied with fine to average carbonation. Toasted grains to finish. Enjoyable.
Fergus (31537) reviewed Bouchart X from Moon Gazer (Norfolk Brewhouse) 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle shared at the Columbus tasting 22/06/2023. Thanks to Kenny. A clear amber copper coloured pour with a loose beige head. Aroma is semi sweet, nutty malts, perfume, toasted malts, some alcohol. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, thin, nutty malts, tangy white grape, waxy, oily, tangy apple, tawny port. Palate is oily, semi sweet, mellow carbonation, little thin. .
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
22nd June 2023
6th Floor bottleshare with the usual suspects. Thanks to me. A mild haze on this amber beer, small pale tan head. Smooth palate, mildly dry, reasonable fine carbonation. Thinnish dark malts, a little thin chocolate and thin dark malt cream. Fair few esters in the mid. Finishes sweet and estery. A little odd. Drinks easy but a tad sweet.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Spotty beige head in a ruby body. Malt & roasted aroma. Medium to full bodied, soft smooth & dry on the back. Caramel, liquorice, blackberry & malt tastes with a fruity berry explosion on the finish. Excellent.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
330ml bottle as part of a delivery from Beers of Europe and drunk at home. Dark brown, only slightly translucent with a tiny ring of white head. Lots and lots of liquorice in the aroma, with some molasses and a touch of fig. Taste is achingly sweet, with lots of raisin, muscovado sugar, and of course more liquorice. Light hoppy bitterness in the finish. Full syrupy body, medium carbonation. These ‘imperial miles’ are a little bit crazy.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle from Beers of Europe. Pours black with no head. Aromas of nuts and chocolate. Taste is more of the same with some booze heat. Clean finish.