Glebe Farm Gladiator Spelt Beer

Gladiator Spelt Beer

 

Glebe Farm in Kings Ripton, Cambridgeshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  Speciality Grain - Spelt Regular
Score
5.45
ABV: 4.2% IBU: - Ticks: 17
Spelt is an ancient grain favoured by the Romans for beer and bread making. The grain has a wonderful flavour and may be suitable for those with a wheat intolerance. Grown and malted on the farm the spelt is sent to a local brewer who uses Belgian brewing traditions to produce a delicious, refreshing, well balanced beer. A real taste sensation with its own natural fizz.
 

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6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle from Cambridge Wine Merchants, Cambridge. A couple of years past its sell-by date when opened, but was fine. Darker golden with a thin head, it has a grainy-fruity taste - the former providing a good nose, the latter with more impact on its flavour.

Tried from Bottle on 09 Nov 2017 at 16:00


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

330ml bottle : BBE Oct 2017. Opened on 21st July 2017 during a ’random tasting evening’ with myself, Bertie the dog looks on. The bottle was obtained from the English Heritage, Wroxeter Roman Ruins shop. Poured into a ’Forbidden Fruit’ chalice. Orange/amber/golden body, wispy white affair on top. Honey, oaty (is that the Spelt?) and grainy in the nose, almost like sweetened porridge . The taste similar to the aroma ideas. Interesting aroma and flavour, I am sure I have had a beer with ’Spelt’ before, but just can’t remember when and where. Anyway, nothing wrong with this at all.

Tried from Bottle on 21 Jul 2017 at 15:19


4.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

Better than I thought a spelt beer would be. Doesn’t really work. Tastes bitter and messy and there is an astringent aftertaste

Tried on 10 Aug 2016 at 05:22


5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle - pours a clear gold with a small white head that dissipated to a thin film. Caramel and grainy malt aroma but a with a sour boiled vegetable note. Light sweet bread and honey taste, a light bitter finish.

Tried from Bottle on 29 May 2016 at 11:27


4.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4

330ml picked up at Sourced Market, St Pancras. Hazy, amber-brown, beige, bubbly head. Spotty lacing. Smell of sweet caramel and spelt. Grain malty flavours, rather sourish. Floury bitter endnotes. Watered in the mouth. So-so (shared with Stefan at a hotel room in Leeds, 29.06.2013).

Tried on 05 Jul 2013 at 05:12


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle at Chriso’s Pre-GBBF Shindig, 2012, London. Pours clear gold with a fine, white cream head. Super sugary white bread nose, some vanilla frosting. Light sweet flavor, sweaty, doughy. Light in body with fine carbonation. OK finish, some white bread, light hay. It’s a lightweight guy.

Tried from Bottle on 09 Oct 2012 at 10:07


5
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Bottle at Chris O’s pre-GBBF shindig 2012. Straw coloured pour with a white head. Warm bread and citrus aroma. Light fruit flavour. Dull.

Tried from Bottle on 19 Aug 2012 at 12:04


4.2
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

At Chriso pre GBBF Shindig 2012. Pale gold ring of white beers. Tastes a bit better than it smells but still not great. Some lemon some hop sting but the malts arent good. Poor

Tried on 04 Aug 2012 at 10:07


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle at chrisO ... golden ...thin whitelacing ..light smoke malt ... ljght rye nose ...soft fruits ... light toffee malt ... soft and dull

Tried from Bottle on 04 Aug 2012 at 10:05


3.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5

6th December 2011
Cask at Pigs Ear. Very hazy amber beer with a residual white head. Mildly soapy nose. Light dry palate, no carbonation. Unpleasantly soapy malt with very insipid hops. Semi dry finish. A doff of the hat for trying something different but unfortunately the end result on this occasion is a mess.

Tried from Cask on 11 Mar 2012 at 05:13