Ale
Cerne Abbas Brewery in Cerne Abbas, Dorset, England 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
5.87
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Flagship beer is called "ALE" 3.8% Tawny Ale, well balanced and triple hopped, recent award winner of best in festival at Octoberfest 2014. Og of 1040 this beer has a supple middle with a fuller mouth feel due to extra time conditioning, leaving you with a refreshing finish.
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6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Biscuit & wet cardboard aroma. Sweet malt, biscuit, caramel & toffee tastes with a lightly hopped bitter finish.
Tried
on 10 Nov 2024
at 21:31
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle from Tick Beer. Appearance - golden amber with a slightly off-white head. Nose - bready and caramel mainly. Perhaps some orange. Taste - all caramel and brown bread this time. Palate - close to medium bodied, creamy middle with a finish that is a little sweet. Overall - I like my Bitter with a bit more bitterness than this but nothing really wrong with it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Jan 2022
at 11:20
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottle shared at the pre GBBF chriso’s tasting day 2 07/08/2016. Many thanks! A clear. Toffee coloured pour with a small off white head. Aroma is mineral nutty twiggy malts, hedgerow hop. Flavour is composed of stale grains, toffee, nutty caramel, cardboard. Palate is thin, moderate carbonation, stale sweet.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Oct 2016
at 15:51
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5
Sampled @ ChrisO Pre-GBBF Shindig. A bit hazy yellow golden color, average sized off-white head. Smell and taste malts, slightly butter, a bit bitter. Meh.
Tried
on 12 Aug 2016
at 07:30
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle at Chris and Ruth’s pre-GBBF Shindig, 2016 (Sunday sesh.). Amber pour with a white head. Vanilla, warm spice and caramel aroma. Flavours of caramel, soft fruit and vanilla. Not bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Aug 2016
at 17:00
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Pre-gbbf-shinding. Klare dunkel goldene Farbe, geringe weiße schaumkrone. Geruch mild trocken hopfig, zitronig, leicht harzig. Geschmack karamellig, nussig hopfig, leicht zitronig.
Tried
on 07 Aug 2016
at 13:30
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask-conditioned, on gravity, at the Tucker’s Maltings Beer Festival, 15/4/2016. Amber in colour, with a decent, off-white, head. Aroma of hedgerow fruits, caramel and a touch of leafy hop. Flavour of bready malts and more fruit, leading to a short, bitter, finish. Ok.
Tried
from Cask
on 24 Apr 2016
at 14:19
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Cask as Cerne Abbas Blonde at Blue Raddle, Dorchester. It pours clear amber with a thick white head. The nose is soft, mellow, white bread, biscuit and dried fruits. The taste is smooth, bready malt, light biscuit, straw and dull citrus peel with a dry finish. Good condition. Not very much going on, but pretty inoffensive stuff.
Tried
from Cask
on 21 Feb 2016
at 13:20
4.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 4
Cask (handpump) @ GBBF 2015, Great British Beer Festival, London Olympia, Hammersmith Road, London, England W14 8UX. [ As Cerne Abbas Ale ].Clear light to medium amber yellow color with a average, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, apple, green apples. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average duration, apples, green apple, sweet malt. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is flat. [20150811]
Tried
from Cask
on 27 Jan 2016
at 07:39
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 6
Cask from the brewer’s own stall at the Salisbury Christmas market. Amber with a small white head. Malty from the off with some bread and nuts. Fades a little as you drink more, but nevertheless remains pretty thirst quenching and satisfying. A standard bitter that gets the job done without making any fuss about it.
Tried
from Cask
on 20 Dec 2015
at 16:27