Stumbling Badger
Sadler's Ales in Lye, West Midlands, England 🏴
Bitter - ESB / Strong Bitter Regular|
Score
6.51
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Tried
on 28 Jan 2023
at 07:34
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle 500ml.Clear medium amber orange colour with a small to average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, white to off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, caramel, toffee, honey and oxidide notes. Flavour is moderate sweet and light moderate bitter with a average to long duration, toffee, burnt - caramelized malt, honey notes. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20120809]
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Sep 2012
at 10:15
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottled@chriso. Orangeish golden colour, small white head. Aroma is fruity, wooden and some slight notes of floral. Flavour is fruity, floral and some mild maltyness. Pleasant.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Aug 2012
at 16:00
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
500ml bottle: best before the end of June 2012, poured into an Abbot Ale glass tankard in May 2012. Amber in colour: fast fading off-white head of bubbles on top. Smells like a fruit beer: red berries to the fore, honey just behind with brown bread used to mop it all up. The taste isn’t as sweet as the nose suggests: a hop citrus/bitterness isn’t far below the surface of this mildly malty brew. Strange mouthfeel, no richness or depth: yet it holds the flavours and hides the alcohol well. The good quality ’Red Leicester’ cheese I had towards the end of this review really set the beer off nicely: different, interesting and worth finding.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 May 2012
at 11:33
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
500ml bottle. Pours amber with a large, frothy head. Aroma is caramel sweetness, some bread and dried fruit underneath. Taste starts with vanilla ice cream and boiled sweets. Skunky caramel finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Apr 2011
at 17:17
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask @ Society Room, JDW. Hazy amber colour, white head. Aroma is sour fruits, caramel. Flavour of caramel malts, sour fruits, bit of citrus. Sour finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 25 Jun 2010
at 04:21
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
cask at JDW standing order ... copper ... thin white head ... soft toffee nose ... woody berry fruits ... light toffee ... hint of chocolate ...odd medicinal linger
Tried
from Cask
on 18 Jun 2010
at 08:30
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at the Plough & Harrow (JDW), Hammersmith. Amber with a dense cream head; rich malt aroma; full-bodied and smooth with roasted malt flavours and a hint of honey; the finish has some prickly, herbal, hops. A very pleasant, refreshing, premium bitter.
Tried
from Cask
on 20 May 2010
at 15:25
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask-conditioned at the Commercial Rooms (JDW), Bristol 09/05/10. Deep copper colour with a big, off-white head. Sweet, caramel and red fruit aroma. Flavours of earthy cereal malts, berry fruit and caramel, with a short bitter finish. Ok.
Tried
from Cask
on 10 May 2010
at 14:36
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Cask handpull at County Hotel, JDW, Ashford. Copper colour, lasting creamy head. Some fruit and some biscuit in the flavour. Some good toffee. I rather like this, a very decent premium bitter, very good in terms of toffee fruit and biscuit. Decent.
Tried
from Cask
on 08 Apr 2010
at 04:21