Grumpling Ale
Vale Brewery in Brill, Buckinghamshire, England 🏴
Bitter - ESB / Strong Bitter Regular|
Score
6.23
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An Award Winning Premium ale with complex malt and hop flavours and a moreish smack.
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6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
500ml bottle of Marks & Spencer Buckinghamshire Ale. Reddish copper with a thin white head; rich sweet malty aroma; fruity malt flavours with underlying earthy hops; quite dry finish. [5/3/6/3/12]Rerate: Cask at the Kingston Arms, Cambridge. Gold with a thin white head leaving light lacing; sweet malt aroma; sweet fruity flavour with apples and blackberries; the finish is sharply bitter and slightly spiced. [6/4/6/4/16]
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Feb 2008
at 15:21
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle from M&S. Chestnut coloured with a slight, off-white head. Aroma of nuts, some fruity malt and earthy hops. Full mouth feel with more fruit, some caramel and a decent dry finish. Good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Feb 2008
at 16:18
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle (as Buckinghamshire Ale by M&S): Clean, lively carbonation, huge fluffy to rocky off-white head, fruity and malty nose with a distinctive dash of hops in the background; solid sweet (-malty) bitter flavour, soft MF; lingering soft hoppy and malty finish. Decent, pleasant stuff..........
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Jan 2008
at 11:47
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle, M&S. Light grassy aromatic and lightly roasted nose. Dark amber, off-white creamy layer. Roasted and fairly smoky malt base, aromatic english hops, wood, a little bit metal, orangepeel. Medium to light body, slick mouthfeel. Smoke and clay retronasal, overaid by citric hops. I quite liked this one actually, would love to try it on cask.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Nov 2007
at 14:05
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
500ml bottle from M&S, London Bridge Station. Chestnut colour with thin beige head. Wow, this is one of the best BCAs I’ve had. Malty, dry malt aroma, very moderate fruit, good malts in mouth, some fizzy hop on finish, but this could have been served in a pub. Good malts, could do with more hop. Moderately good best bitter.
Earlier Rating: 3/14/2006 Total Score: 3.3
Cask handpull at Wenlock. Chestnut colour with thin beige head. Fine bitter, some toffee, some earthy hop. Got a bit more kick to it. Good hop malt mix. Finish has some dry malt along with the good hop. Some sherbert
Earlier Rating: 3/14/2006 Total Score: 3.3
Cask handpull at Wenlock. Chestnut colour with thin beige head. Fine bitter, some toffee, some earthy hop. Got a bit more kick to it. Good hop malt mix. Finish has some dry malt along with the good hop. Some sherbert
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Sep 2007
at 03:26
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Cask at GBBF 2006. A pale brown beer with only a rim of beige head. The aroma is sweet fruity - combined with notes of diacethyl. The flavor is sweet malty with notes of malty, caramel, fruit, and pollen, leading to a dry bitter end, that also has hints of honey.
Tried
from Cask
on 09 Mar 2007
at 13:25
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask @ GBBF 2006. Pours a hazy amber colour with an off-white head. Malty fruity aroma. Malty fruity flavor with some hints of dark fruits. Long malty and fruity aftertaste.
Tried
from Cask
on 30 Sep 2006
at 05:25
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Islip Village Hall Sat 25th Feb. Copper coloured ale, this had a little bit more body and flavour than the Edgars and Wychert which I also had this evening, but still doesn’t really grab you by the scruff of the neck and attack your senses. I like Vale and think there beers are always usually very good but I have yet to get excited about any of them. Quite malty reasonably tasty, decent enough pint. Had this again BCA In a field at Towersey Festival, Oxon, w/e 20th-25th August 08 and I can’t really add much to my previous comment, other than to say its a reasonably decent mid amber bitter, quite malty but tasty and my rating has now gone up from 3.1 to 3.2.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Mar 2006
at 02:14
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Sampled cask conditioned. Copper coloured. Flowery, pronounced hop aroma. Medium- to full bodied, malty and fruity with hints of prunes. Medium bitterness. Complex and tasty.
Tried
from Cask
on 16 May 2002
at 00:02