Once Upon a Time, November 15th, 1901, KK
Pretty Things Beer and Ale Project in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Brewed at/by: Buzzards Bay BrewingTraditional Beer - Old Ale Regular Out of Production
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Score
7.48
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Once upon a time, on Friday, November 15th, 1901, an Edwardian brewer stepped into a London brewhouse and brewed a beer that confounds expectations many years later. An ale darker than most Porters that uses more hops than a modern IPA. Thanks once again to the talents of brewing historian, Ron Pattinson, we can reproduce this moment in time from the original brewday document. This ‘KK’ beer is brewed with several pale malts, brown malt, caramelized brewing sugars and two classic English hop varieties, Bramling Cross and Kent Goldings.
O.G. 1.075, 7.8% ABV.
O.G. 1.075, 7.8% ABV.
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7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle, courtesy of Joes. Pitch black color, small brown head. Smell hops, some fruityness and lightly hints of flowers. Taste malts, roastyness, hops and bitter. Bitter, lightly roasty finish. Mediim carbonation, medium body.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Feb 2012
at 09:22
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle shared at the 6th annual Richmond Industry Gathering, 11/27/11. Pours a dark murky reddish brown color with a medium sized creamy dark ten head. Decent head retention. Aroma of sweet malts, citrus, earthy notes and plums. The taste is bitter roasted malts, citrus, stone fruits, coffee, chocolate and leather. Medium-full bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Nov 2011
at 20:24
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle pours black with a medium tan head. Aroma is roast and cocoa with dank hops. Flavor is smoke and ash with big dry roast notes and earthy hops finishing dry. Nice stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Nov 2011
at 13:42
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle courtesy of HenrikSoegaard cons 2011-09-24 Göteborg AR: cream brulee, chocolate AP: dark brown body, 1 cm dark creme beige head F. smokey, heavy bitterness, caramel, roasted malt
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Sep 2011
at 15:01
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Pours a black color with a small tan head. Has a roasted malty chooclate and caramel aroma. Roasted malty hoppy bitter chocolate flavor. Has a roasted malty chocolate finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Sep 2011
at 15:28
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle picked up a year ago, shared with friends
Appearance: Black with brown edges with a big frothy tan head lots of sticky lacing
Aroma: Perfume, soapy and ripe fruit
Taste: Toasted malts ripe fruit with a bitter finish
Nice, very unique but easy drinking and good.
Appearance: Black with brown edges with a big frothy tan head lots of sticky lacing
Aroma: Perfume, soapy and ripe fruit
Taste: Toasted malts ripe fruit with a bitter finish
Nice, very unique but easy drinking and good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Jul 2011
at 21:48
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
65 cl bottle. Dark brown liquid with medium tan head. Aroma has malty notes, brittish hops, dark, roasty malt. Taste is not very sweet and medium bitter. Quite malty. Medium bodied with OK carbonation. OK old ale but not mindblowing and not that interesting. Too brittish for my liking.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Jul 2011
at 14:19
8.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8
Streng hopfiger Antrunk mit spitzer Zitrusnote und breiter Blumigkeit. Frisch, die intensive Bitterkeit integriert sich äußerst gut. Der Hopfen bildet zudem fruchtige Noten; mit derart intensivem Hopfen ist selbst das starke Malz meist nur ein Nebenaroma, allerdings eins, dass sich nach und nach die Teile des Bieres sichert, die nicht vom Hopfen eingenommen werden. So ist es in weiten Teilen des Hintergrunds führend unnd ist im langen Nachgeschmack dem Hopfen ebenbürtig. Nach dem langsamen Ausgleiten des Hopfen bleibt eine gewisse Trockenheit nicht aus. Super! 11/13/13/13/14/13
Tried
on 08 May 2011
at 03:06
7.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle from Firefly, Vancouver
Black color; creamy head, beige, persistent. The aroma is mild, yet very interesting, with roasted malts, coffee; a bit sweaty but also fruity; light vanilla; later it gets excellent, with loads of noble English hops.
Good body structure; strong flavor of dark chocolate and roasted malts; very good balance of roastiness and acidity from the malts, strong bitterness.
The roasted malt character is a bit too strong for my liking in the end; the alpha acids can clearly be perceived. But overall it’s an excellent, powerful, balanced beer.
Black color; creamy head, beige, persistent. The aroma is mild, yet very interesting, with roasted malts, coffee; a bit sweaty but also fruity; light vanilla; later it gets excellent, with loads of noble English hops.
Good body structure; strong flavor of dark chocolate and roasted malts; very good balance of roastiness and acidity from the malts, strong bitterness.
The roasted malt character is a bit too strong for my liking in the end; the alpha acids can clearly be perceived. But overall it’s an excellent, powerful, balanced beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Apr 2011
at 06:18
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
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Tried
on 08 Apr 2011
at 14:12