Spooks Ale (Bottle)
(Batch of Spooks Ale)
Shepherd Neame in Faversham, Kent, England 🏴
Bitter - ESB / Strong Bitter Regular|
Score
6.48
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6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7
Aroma is quite toasty and nutty. Flavour has roasted malts and has a certain creamy, nutty sweetness. Carbonation is a bit high and there’s a bit of a metallic aftertaste otherwise a decent brew.
Tried
on 24 Mar 2013
at 12:29
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Dark brown colour with a large head. Fruity, butter, caramel aroma. Flavour is butter scotch, fruit, caramel.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Dec 2012
at 10:24
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle from Gardiner & Haskins, Bristol. Chestnut with a frothy, off-white head. Sweetish, cereal malts, with a touch of cocoa powder and berry fruits, leading to a moderately bitter finish. Ok.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Nov 2012
at 22:08
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottled@SBWF2012. Goldeny orange colour with a small off-white creamy head, that leaves some lace. Aroma is fruity and floral hops along with mild toffee, herbs and slight honey like notes. Flavour is slightly toasted and bready maltyness along with some fruits, caramel, floral and mild zestyness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Nov 2012
at 02:28
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle. from Systembolaget. Creamy off-white good mostly lasting head. Amber colour. Heavy malty and light hopy aroma. Dry woody notes. Moderate bitter flavor. Average moderate bitter finish. oily palate. A little boring but ok.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Nov 2012
at 05:11
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 5
500ml bottle - not sure what to make of this. It is supposed to be an ESB, but the nose and taste is more smoky than spooky, with a bitter after taste. The look and palate are okay, but the taste.. I dunno. Too biscuity.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Oct 2012
at 15:30
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
50 cl bottle from Systembolaget, Mölndal. Can’t find a BB date, consumed on October 20, 2012.Clear dark copper to light ruby color, big lasting creamy off-white head. Sweet, malty, grainy, bread, caramel scent. Malty, dry, a bit harsh, grainy, husky, somewhat roasty, hints of solvents and resin taste. Medium to spritzy mouthfeel, harsh dry towards some glue aftertaste. Medium high dry harsh bitterness. Feels more of a sipping beer, despite the low alcohol, I’d have appreciated if it was a tad sweeter in taste, and less harshness. Even has a feeling of warming alcohol, oddly enough.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Oct 2012
at 12:47
4.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Bottled, from Systembolaget. Clear nut brown, rich firm head. Herbal nose with some vanilla. Dryish with clean, rounded mouthfeel. Lightly roasty anbd heavily resiny with aggressive bitterness. Shallow and fruity.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Oct 2012
at 05:28
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Distinct, herbal aroma. Thin foam. Light amber colour. Clear, slightly bitter flavour and strong aftertaste.
Tried
on 18 Oct 2012
at 12:46
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle, 4.7%. Very faint nutty aroma. Clear dark copper colour. Big stable off-white head. The flavour starts off caramelly, turning slightly nutty and finishing with some CO2 flavour.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Oct 2012
at 12:42