Dorset Piddle - Jimmy Riddle
Piddle Brewery in Dorchester, Dorset, England 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
6.17
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Old rating from 2011 - 500ml bottle, pours amber with a white head. Aromas & tastes of dark fruit, toffee, caramel, biscuit, bread & malt. Medium body. Light bitter finish
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Bottle from the brewery, at the holiday cottage, 28/10/15. Clear copper amber with a decent light beige covering that retains well. Nose is malt forward, toffee, light vanilla, trace of brown bread. Taste comprises biscuit malt, toffee, dark fruit, raisen, light tobacco. Medium bodied, light prickly carbonation but not in a detrimental way, semi drying close with a trace of bitterness. Decent well rounded bitter.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Cask @ Market Porter, Borough SE1. Pours a clear amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty caramel aroma. Fruity malty caramel flavor. Has a fruity malty caramel finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Gravity cask at the Bree Louise - London. Pours hazy amber with a bubbly off-white head. Tangy berries in the bose, some dour malts, twigs, leather. Light sweet flavor with more tangy fruits, leaves, wood, leather, berries. Light bodied with fine, spritzy carbonation. Further ripe, lightly sour fruits on the finish, faint apples, cherry, plum. In poor condition but also kind of novel.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
50cl bottle from The Naked Grape, Alresford.A headless, murky chestnut pour, looking rather liveless; aroma of chocolate malts; the taste is mainly of tart apples, then a sweet, grainy, body develops with a touch of milk chocolate; but the tart fruit dominates and carries through to the end. Not a very pleasant pint - drunk well inside it’s Best Before date (07/13), but seemingly way past its best.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
bottle from Lyme Regis Wines. Quite dark brown, aroma of freshly ground espresso coffee beans and cocoa powder. Light, shy malty background with coffee and bitter chocolate. Very rich and full of character.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
27th August 2011
Gravicask at the Angel mini beer festival, Kelvedon. Hazy brown beer, no real head. Light crisp palate. Nice dried fruits with a trace of toffee. Pleasant mild sourness. Semi dry finish with hop bitterness. Alright.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Cask at The King’s Head Inn, Salisbury. A red-amber beer with a thin beige head. The aroma is weak - what is there is of caramel. The flavor is sweet with notes of caramel and spices, as well as a bit of sulphur,c leading to a bitter finish. The body is light.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
On gravity at the Bank, Bristol 08/08/09. Deep copper in colour with a slight white head. Aroma of biscuit malts and grassy hops. Flavour had plenty of chewy malt, a whiff of orange hops and smoething sweet in the background, before a satisfying bitter finish. A lot going on for 3.7% ABV and very drinkable.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cask (Ye Olde George Inn, Christchurch) - Copper colourd with a slight haze. Lightly hoppy aroma with tea being detected. Fruity and hoppy taste with grapefruit and caramel.