Single Hop Series No.1 - Chinook
Weird Beard Brew Co. in London, Greater London, England 🏴
Bitter - ESB / Strong Bitter Series Out of Production|
Score
6.79
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Bottle from Birratrovo, Como; batch 0001, bottled Feb 2013, bb Feb 2016
Gusher. Pours a dark brown color with large frothy head, not persistent. The aroma mixes dark caramel with English yeast; some soil and dust. Good body strength; it has too much carbonation; the flavor turns too much to the dark side; dark caramel and some more heavily roasted malt; the bitterness deriving from the dark malts accentuates too much the one from the hops resulting excessive; dusty and roasty final.
I don’t see why using such a base beer for a single hop series. Elephant in a china shop.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle at home. Pours brown, nose is light toffee, pine, taste is malty, bitter finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
On tap at Craft 100. 8.2% As Boring Brown Beer. Syrupy brown malty beer. Good grapefruit on the finish. Yes decent.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Brown good head roadty malty note little dry coffee some citrus tropical fruit note dry good bitterness some harsy note a bit metallic
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle 330ml.ABV: 7.2%. Clear medium to dark red amber colour with a average to large, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly to fully lasting, off-white to beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, moderate to light light heavy hoppy, citrus, orange - citrus. Initial flavour is moderate sweet and light moderate bitter, finish flavor moderate sweet and bitter with a long to average duration, fruity, dried fruit, caramel, fruit - wood, late finish is quit bitter. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20130629] 6-4-7-3-14 Cask (gravity) @ EBF14 2013, 14th Egham Beer Festival, Egham United Services Club (EUSC), 111 Spring Rise, Egham, Surrey, England TW20 9PE.ABV: 7.4%. Unclear medium amber color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, moderate hoppy, orange - citrus, fruity alcohol, wood, light alcohol. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20130328] 6-3-7-3-14
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle. Amber colour with a beige head. Aroma is hop, malt, caramel, fruit. Flavour is hop, malt, caramel, fruit. bitter finish. Nice beer.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle from Cotteridge Wines, Birmingham. Poured a deep brown treacle colour with a huge frothy tan head and lots of carbonation. This was a lively beer! The aroma is surprisingly very yeasty with lots of that Belgian malt which really shines through. The hops are not so evident. The flavour is super strong bitter with a rich malty, liqourice palate and a nice lingering bitter finish. Well worth tracking down. I think the Belgians could learn a thing or two about flavour from this too.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle picked up at ’Jacks’, Westholme Stores, Goring-on-Thames, Oxon. Consumed at a wonderful house in Appleton, Oxon, Saturday 31st August 2013 Pours very dark briwn with a large slightly sticky off-white head. Fruity full on ESB type beer with the malts, hops and body of this beer all giving the feelibg that it is an ESB on steriods and ramped up to 11. Caramel and dark slightly sticky fruits complete the picture for me of an interesting if rather complex brown beer. A6 A4 T7 P4 Ov13 3.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle @ home. Batch 0001 Bottled February 2013. Thanks to jmgreenuk for bringing me this bottle from the UK. Unclear hazy brownish color with a slight red hue, medium sized beige head. Smell malts, caramel. Taste malts, caramel, lightly roasty, medium bitter and slightly a bit alcohol sweetness.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle 33 cl on April 25, 2013, thanks to Ingo! Batch 0001, bottled Feb -13, BB Feb -16. Marked 7.2% ABV.Clear brown color, yellow head. Sweet, plastic, rubber, bandaid scent. Sweet, bitter, dry, alcohol taste. Medium mouthfeel, medium high dry bitterness. Dry, bitter, grainy aftertaste.