Cwrw Coch (Red Bandit)
Cader Ales (Cwrw Cader) in Dolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales 🏴
Bitter - ESB / Strong Bitter Regular|
Score
6.21
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle bought Vinomondo, Conwy. Clear dark amber. Frothy foamy white head soon thins out. Aroma combines spice with a wiod and grains bitterness. Berries. Flavourwise it has berry sourness alongside a peppery spiciness. Underlying seeet fruit and light caramel malts. Light. Thin. Soft carbonation provides lift. Long dry slightly astringent finish. Nice enough.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle from Stori. Appearance - deep amber with a very slightly off white head. Nose - Highland toffee with an edge of shortbread. Taste - more of the same. Palate - close to medium bodied. Chewy texture. Initial sweetness that finishes fairly dry eventually. Overall - more of a Bitter than an Amber ale.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle from Rhug Farm Shop, Wales. Amber-brown with a negligible white head and a middling fizz. Dominated by caramel and malt, with a touch of Ribena and a smidgen of spice. Negligible hop presence. It's on the sweet side, and the mouthfeel is rather clammy, but it's just about drinkable.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle at Firkin Alehouse Folkestone. very malty and sweet aroma. some carbonation. some boiled sweet. some toffee. under attenuated. too sweet. brown sugar caramel. boiled sweets. not much hop. I struggled with it
Olut (21769) reviewed Cwrw Coch (Red Bandit) from Cader Ales (Cwrw Cader) 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Cask @ Wynnstay Arms, Machynlleth. Golden with a thin head. Has a dense texture for its strength and a hop-malt balance.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Cask at the Wynnstay Arms Hotel, Machynlleth. Pours reddy brown with a small head. Aroma is jammy burnt toast. Taste has earthy hedgerow fruit and jammy bread.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
500ml bottle @ Myrddin’s Bar Caffi, Barmouth. Pours reddish amber, small bubbly head. Aroma of light caramel malt, light spice. Taste is smooth, quite light, breezy malts, lightly spicy, earthy hops. No world-beater but served its purpose on this baking hot day.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Cask (gravity) @ Nottingham Robin Hood Beer Festival (2014), Nottingham Castle, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England NG1 6EL. [ As Cader Red Bandit ].Clear medium yellow - amber orange color with a small to average, frothy - fizzy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted - caramel, pale malt, apple. Flavor is moderate sweet and light moderate bitter with a average to long duration, earthy hops, pale malt. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20141008]
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle share round at Richy’s. Reddy amber. Off white head. Fruit. Sweet malts. Tastes pithy bitter. Has a spiciness to it. Pretty drinkable ESB.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
27th June 2015: 500ml bottle taken by me to the 2nd Annual Midlands tasting, just to give everyone a new Welsh brewery tick. Split between 5, so we all had a decent amount to rate. Not as red as the bottle label would have you believe: it is light amber in colour, the head off-white, still looks OK though, even if it isn’t red. Malty lead in the nose and flavour with a red berry feel to both also, some herbal like spiciness runs through the brew too. Another decent beer to come out of Wales.