Mid-Week Bender
Nene Valley Brewery in Oundle, Northamptonshire, England 🏴
Amber / Red Ale Regular|
Score
6.90
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Amber ale brewed to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Maris Otter malt
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6.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
Cask at The Star & Garter, Bromley. Nose is toffee apple, cherry drops, strawberry Starburst. Taste is toffee apple, nuts, more cherry drops. Robust malty bitter finish.
Tried
from Cask
at
Star & Garter
on 08 Mar 2025
at 21:02
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask, third pint. @CAMRA GBBF Winter Festival 2023, Burton-On-Trent (UK). 17/02/2023 [#5.869 Global - #646 England - #2 Nene Valley Brewery] Pours amber with a small lacing head. Aroma: toffee malts, caramel and sugar. Taste: caramelly and sugary malts. Next one please!
Tried
from Cask
on 07 Mar 2023
at 12:29
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Gravity cask at the GBBF Winter 2023 Festival, day 2 at Burton On Trent Town Hall, 17/02/23. Amber pour with a good sized just off white crown. Nose is caramel, biscuit, fruit slice, sugar dusting. Taste comprises fruit cake, perfume, toffee, brown bread, toasted grains. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, semi drying close. Decent for the style.
Tried
from Cask
on 27 Feb 2023
at 16:57
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask at the great British winter beer festival. A mostly clear amber orange coloured pour with a loose off white head. Aroma is semi sweet, nutty malts, apple, bark, light tang. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, nutty malts, apple, nutty, light toasted toffee, palate is semi sweet, rounded malts, mellow cask condition.
Tried
from Cask
on 17 Feb 2023
at 14:13
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
On keg at Puzzles, Peterborough. Pours amber with a small cream coloured head. Nose is malt & caramel. Heavy malts dominate the taste, some dark fruits and candy sugar. Bitter finish, slight alcohol burn. Carbonation was fine. A pretty good ESB
Tried
from Can
on 24 Aug 2017
at 14:36
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
24th February 2017
Cambridge Blue. Keg. Clear amber beer, tidy pale cream colour head. Palate is light, mildly crisp. Light sweet malts, a little cream. Trace of caramel. Light sweet floralness. Modest citrus peel. Light finish.Yeah - goes down easy.
Cambridge Blue. Keg. Clear amber beer, tidy pale cream colour head. Palate is light, mildly crisp. Light sweet malts, a little cream. Trace of caramel. Light sweet floralness. Modest citrus peel. Light finish.Yeah - goes down easy.
Tried
on 24 Feb 2017
at 12:52
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask (gravity) @ NWAF 2016, National Winter Ales Festival (2016), The Roundhouse, Pride Park, Derby, Derbyshire, England, DE24 8JE. [ As Nene Valley Mid-Week Bender ].Clear medium orange amber color with a average, open and frothy - fizzy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, sweet malt, dried fruit. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, dried fruit, caramel, fruity, sweet malt. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat, finish feel is light alcoholic. [20160217]
Tried
from Cask
on 30 Apr 2016
at 14:28
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Gravity, kindly shared by fonefan at The National Winter Ales Festival. Clear amber coloured body, film-type layer, dotted spots on the glassware. Malt-fruity smell, notes of orange and caramel. Dried fruity flavours joined by caramel and almond. Malt-fruity bitterness to the ending. noticeable alcohol.Medium bodied. Satisfying (Roundhouse, Derby 17.02.2016).
Tried
on 10 Mar 2016
at 01:50
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Tried out of the tap at the tap room. Wow. Great beer. Dark golden colour. Aroma have candied sugar, citrus fruit and a deep malt. Great beer with a long sweet to bitter finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Feb 2016
at 14:37
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7
Keg at the Blue Moon, Cambridge. Amber, slightly hazy wig a decent beige head. Scent obscured a bit - maybe too cold and too kegged - but there is a nice malt, tree sap and vanilla scent if you let it warm up a bit and keep at it. Sweet taste with heavy bitter overtones. Nice bitter-laden finish with slight suggestions of forest fruit and caramel. Very decent US-style amber.
Tried
on 16 Nov 2015
at 12:45