Powder Monkey
Nelson Brewery in Chatham, Kent, England 🏴
Golden / Blonde Ale Regular Out of Production|
Score
5.60
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A Dark Golden Ale with a smooth taste and produces a sweetness on the palate.The term "Powder Monkey" was the nickname for the Ships Boy Third Class, the bottom of the navy's seaman class. Lord Nelson's victory at Trafalgar would not have happened without the hard work of the many powder monkey's on board HMS Victory. The Powder Monkey's tasks in battle involved distributing the powder cartridges and bags of gunpowder for the ships magazine to the guns to keep them in action.
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12/11/2011. CROSSE KEYS, 9 Gracechurch Street, LONDON, EC3, England (WETHERSPOONS)
Tried
on 10 Jan 2023
at 07:08
4/10
Tried
on 28 May 2015
at 17:18
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at Devonshire Arms, Cambridge. copper with a fair bit of head and lacing. Intriguing spicy aroma: doughy and nutty with traces of ginger and cinnamon. Disappointing taste: a woody bitter with a hint of quininey sour. Dry finish. Slightly unpleasant sour aftertaste. I’ve had worse but this isn’t great.
Tried
from Cask
on 20 Nov 2014
at 10:20
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Cask @ County Hotel, Ashford. Golden with a bubbly head. Fairly ordinary bitter with a mild malty character and a medium bitterness.
Tried
from Cask
on 02 Sep 2014
at 12:00
5.3/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5
500 mml bottle tasted on 19/06/2014. Clear golden with a medium white head. Aroma is malty and sugar. Taste is malty too, watery and yeast. Little sweet and little dry aftertaste. Medium carbonation and light body. Nothing special. Next one please!
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jun 2014
at 13:55
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle 500ml.Clear medium orange yellow colour with a large to huge, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted - caramel, pale malt, light to moderate hoppy, grass - leather. Flavour is moderate sweet with a long duration, tart malt, leather, dusty malt. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20131012]
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Oct 2013
at 07:22
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle @ fonefan tasting. Clear golden with a lasting white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel and moderate hoppy - grass. Flavor is medium sweet and moderate bitter. Dry and moderate bitter finish. carbonation is high. This is my first reasonably clean beer from Nelson in my fifth try. 121013
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Oct 2013
at 05:58
4.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
Bottle, 4.3%/4.4% again depending on where on the bottle you look... Clear golden with floaties and medium white head. Aroma is malt, fruit and a little hop. Flavour is malt, fruit, yeast, little over carbonated, little sweet, little plastic, phenols,
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Oct 2013
at 05:56
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle @ fonefan tasting. Nice head with good duration. Color is golden. Aroma and taste are malt, grass, straw and hops. Semi high carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Oct 2013
at 05:56
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
50 cL bottle. Pours clear and golden orange with a small white head. Aroma is milky and light fruity. Citric. Bitter, herbal, ashtray and dry. Mild citric and light fruity finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Oct 2013
at 05:55