Stag / Royal Stag
Quantock Brewery in Bishops Lydeard, Somerset, England 🏴
Bitter - ESB / Strong Bitter Regular|
Score
6.31
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Cheeseboard (6269) reviewed Stag / Royal Stag from Quantock Brewery 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
500ml bottle, as Quantock Stag IPA. Pours clear copper amber with an off white head. Aroma: caramel malts, hedgerow fruits. The taste follows, mostly caramel & toffee. Light sweet & moderate bitter, fruity, nutty hints. Medium bodied with average carbonation. Laughable to see this termed an IPA on the bottle. Twig central. Uber dull.
Martinsh (3610) reviewed Stag / Royal Stag from Quantock Brewery 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Cask at Shrewsbury Arms, Stafford – as Quantock Stag Pours a hazy dark copper with a small cream head and good lacing. The nose is creamy and features plenty of malts. Low carbonation lets the flavours come to the fore in the mouth. These are vainly toffee, malts and ginger, but with traces of summer fruits (plum, apple) too. Some citrus comes through at the finish. This is very good indeed.
Olut (21769) reviewed Stag / Royal Stag from Quantock Brewery 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle from Dunster Village Shop and Deli, Dunster, as simply Quantock Stag. Dark hazy amber with a thick frothy head. Has a strongish nose, but this is not so evident in its taste, although it's not overly flavoursome either, but not a bad drink by any means with a light pale ale characters.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Stag / Royal Stag from Quantock Brewery 9 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle obtained through a professional relationship, cheers Jeremy and Sabine! Mine simply says "Quantock Stag" without the "Royal", but I assume this is the same beer. Gusher, even quite strongly so, thick foam crept out of the bottle neck fifteen minutes after opening. Very heavily cobweb-lacing, egg-white, thick and stable head over an initially almost clear, warm orange blonde beer with slight pinkish hue, calmly sparkling. Herbal aroma of white pepper, lime zest, dried orange peel, fresh ’iron-like’ parsley and iron ’tout court’, nettles or other garden weeds, bitter honey, toasted bread, hints of soap, jute, dry tree leaves, slight caramel, green apple, roasted peanuts, some dried banana when warming up, unripe berries - this bouquet is like a walk through a meadow full of wild flora. Crisp, clean onset, spritzy due to high carbonation (not surprising seen the gushing), some dried fruits, a tad sourish in a very soft way but otherwise quite neutral with very low sweetness or fruitiness; overcarbonation numbs the tongue a bit but a firm, nutty and toasted, supple malt body comes to its full development after that. All the while, herbal, grassy and floral ’Euro’ hops linger in the background, waiting to burst, which happens in the finish - yet still in a well-mannered, balanced way; they provide a long, drying, very peppery and leafy ’noble’ bitterness as well as retronasal floral and herbal aromas. Quenching and appetizing, the gushing is a bit over the top of course, but other than that, this is a very enjoyable, balanced, drying ale. It is not far removed from the ever more elusive ’EPA’ style but clearly a lot more hop forward so I tend to disagree with the ’ESB’ qualification given here: this is one of those rare, truly ’English style’ IPAs, directly linked to the origins of the style. I guess (too) many people associate ’IPA’ with the lush, extremely aromatic American style these days, but we should not forget that the roots of this style, or at least its name, lie in merry old England, where all pale ales of the late 18th and 19th centuries received a firm hop dosis for storage, regardless of whether they were intended for export or not. This one is a good reminder of this historical fact. Recommended in that sense, even in spite of the gushing.
Harrisoni (26233) reviewed Stag / Royal Stag from Quantock Brewery 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
On gravity at White Cliffs BF 2015. hazy amber dark lasting white head. bit of nettle hop. Its kinda an ok premium bitter with some malt sweetness and some hop. Ok beer.
madmitch76 (40452) reviewed Stag / Royal Stag from Quantock Brewery 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
2nd January 2013
Market Porter. Clear amber beer with tidy cream coloured head. Palate is softish and airy. Light malt with a little cream. Trace of nuts. Pleasantly tangy orange hops that are quite mild. Trace of lemon. Finishes semi dry. Hardly an IPA but pretty easy drinking.
Fin (18365) reviewed Stag / Royal Stag from Quantock Brewery 15 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
BCA from the Dodgi Deli aka Classic Deli, Cowley Rd, Oxford, 05-05-10 I rather enjoyed this beer but after the Beowulf it really had a hard act to follow. Pours light amber the aroma is a little dusty, with a hint of tangy sour fruitiness. Good clarity, nice and tangy in the mouth, fruity, I get that slight dusty hop flavour again, but its enjoyable. A6 A4 F7 P4 Ov13 3.4
Downender (11275) reviewed Stag / Royal Stag from Quantock Brewery 15 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Cask-conditioned at the Seven Stars, Bristol 30/03/10. Slightly hazy amber with a decent white head. Malty, red fruit aroma with a touch of earthy hop. Flavour was dominated by fruity malts, best described as strawberries, with some bready backbone and short, bitter finish. The IPA tag isn’t helpful, but this was a decent strong ale nonetheless.
fonefan (84534) reviewed Stag / Royal Stag from Quantock Brewery 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle 500ml.Light unclear medium amber orange color with a large, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted - caramel, fruity, light to moderate hoppy, orange, mandarin, urine. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and light bitter with a average duration. Body is light medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft. [20100118]
Ungstrup (52110) reviewed Stag / Royal Stag from Quantock Brewery 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottled. A hazy reddish beer with a lazing off-white head. The aroma has notes of fruit and spices. The flavor is sweet with strong notes of fruits as well as notes of straw and malt, leading to a dry finish.