Wassail
Ballards Brewery in Nyewood, West Sussex, England 🏴
Strong Ale - English Regular Out of Production|
Score
5.91
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Note - if you drank English Heritage Wassail produced from 2018 this was brewed by Greyhound, please rate under the English Heritage entry.
A strong, full bodied, fruity beer; tawny red in colour. Wassail won Beer of the Festival at Cardiff in 1992, and Bronze in the Barley Wine category in the 1993 Champion Beer of Britain. Won the Silver at the Great Aberystwyth Beer Festival in 1998, and best in class at the 2002 SIBA South East Region Brewing Competition.
Ingredients: Pearl pale malt and crystal malt. Fuggles and Goldings hops.
A strong, full bodied, fruity beer; tawny red in colour. Wassail won Beer of the Festival at Cardiff in 1992, and Bronze in the Barley Wine category in the 1993 Champion Beer of Britain. Won the Silver at the Great Aberystwyth Beer Festival in 1998, and best in class at the 2002 SIBA South East Region Brewing Competition.
Ingredients: Pearl pale malt and crystal malt. Fuggles and Goldings hops.
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1.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 1
Flavor 1
Texture 2
Overall 0.5
3rd beer on a ’random tasting evening’ with myself on 21st July 2017. 500ml bottle BBE July 2017, obtained from the English Heritage site at Roman Wroxeter (Shropshire). Poured slowly into a lovely vase shaped pint glass, badged for ’Old Speckled Hen’. Misty light brown pour, a dirty amber maybe: full and deep off-white blanket of foam on top. Shit, it’s been skunked, left in the sun on a shelf for too long: can’t drink it: bollox! I hate pouring beers down the sink, but this is undrinkable. Scored as I found it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jul 2017
at 14:29
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle from Warkworth Castle. Gusher. Pours murky amber brown with a thick off-white head. Aromas are bretty, this has clearly picked up a wild yeast somewhere along the line. Loads of sherbet, wood, funky yeast and forest floor. Unintentional, I’ll bet, but actually not bad. Taste is red fruit, wood, horse blanket. Dry finish. Better than expected, for a bottle that’s probably sat on the shelf in a warm gift shop for nearly a year.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Oct 2016
at 05:54
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
English Heritage branded bottle. This poured a hazy dark amber ale colour with a small near white head with an aroma of nuts and berries. Some lacing; fruity sweet, apple peel, berries, honey and a lasting alcohol/bitter taste in the finish. Not bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 May 2016
at 15:23
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
500ml bottle bought at a museum store close to the cathedral in Lincoln, carried back home and shared with djoeye and Finn. Bubbly, patchy surface with kirchenfenster down the glass. Cloudy, apricot coloured body. Drying nose of old books and basement. Taste of dried fruits, bread, herbal hops and forest. Leafy hops towards the ending. Medium bodied. Quite nice (session at Finns, Tromsø 05.08.2014).
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Aug 2014
at 12:21
4.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4
Cask gravity at the 2014 GBBF. Aroma is tart green apple tart berry, raisin. Golden light amber coloured pour with a loose white head. Flavour is caramel, cinnamon, tart granny smith apple. Palate is light tart fruit and fruit. Meh. Light infection.
Tried
from Cask
on 14 Aug 2014
at 13:17
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask. Amber (close to pale copper) colour with a nice foamy slightly off-white head, that leaves some lace and stays on the beer for a good while. Aroma is sweet malts, mild caramel and toasted notes as well as some slight ripe fruits, nice nectary and floral notes as well as some grassiness. Flavour is sweet ripe fruits, some sweet malts to go with it as well as some nice bitterness in the finish. Rather wellbodied, and actually highly enjoyable strong ale.
Tried
from Cask
on 16 Dec 2013
at 16:57