Archangel
Durham Brewery in Bowburn, Durham, England 🏴
Traditional Beer - Old Ale Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.85
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LordAlwold1970 (9754) reviewed Archangel from Durham Brewery 15 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from Mr Lawrence Wine Merchants, Brockley. Bit of a gusher this one. Pours a copper colour with a beige head. Caramel, toffee, sweet spice nose. Flavours of treacle, toffee, vanilla. Good alcohol burn. Warm, malty finish.
Harrisoni (26233) reviewed Archangel from Durham Brewery 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
500ml bottle from the excellent Bottle Shop, Canterbury. Hazy brown beer with thick big beige head. The hops burst out of the bottle and glass even before I got anywhere near it. Earthy grapefruit with a touch of orange and satsuma fruits. Has a definite feel of a Belgian yeast on this I thought. An old ale? Not sure on that description. An English Strong Ale is what I would have had it down as. Good carbonation in the mouth. It has a noble type of strength to it, a syrupyness on the malts that is well balanced by the carbonation, mouthfeel, fullness and most of all by the hops which keep everything in check. Amazingly well balanced beer. Yeast with slight esters is definitely present. It’s a classic orange fruit, hoppy, yeasty English Strong Ale. Love it.
fonefan (84534) reviewed Archangel from Durham Brewery 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle 500ml.Clear medium amber color with a average to large, frothy to creamy, good lacing, fully lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, caramel, barnyard, leather. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long to average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20100118]
Fin (18365) reviewed Archangel from Durham Brewery 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle picked up at Bellingers, Jet Garage, Grove, Nr Wantage, Oxon, consumed 25-02-10 This explained out of the bottle, I suppose that’ll teach me for not waiting for it to settle. I lost over half a bottle as an impressive Vesuvius like eruption continued to take place. The beer when it finally settled was a hazy brown, again another casualty of my pour was the appearance of the beer. Sweet nose, touch cloying. The taste was also sweet and in my opinion overly spicy, there is a hoppiness trying to show through but again its drowned out by the spice. Not the best beer from Durham but in fairness I didn’t help matters. A5 A3 F6 P3 Ov11 2.8
Svesse (15730) reviewed Archangel from Durham Brewery 16 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
(Cask at White Horse, Parson’s Green, London, 27 Nov 2009) Reddish amber colour with brief, off-white head. Malty, fruity nose with notes of dried fruit, caramel, treacle and brown sugar. Malty, fruity taste with dried fruit, apricots, caramel and some earthy hops in the finish. Full body, fairly sweet. Rather vinous with a warming puff of alcohol. Nice and warming for a dark november evening.
Anders37 (30296) reviewed Archangel from Durham Brewery 16 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle. Pours a slightly hazy copper color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty yeasty aroma with some hints of dark fruit. Sweetish malty slightly yeasty hoppy flavor with some hints of dark fruit. Has a fruity malty yeasty finish.
CloakedDagger (37227) reviewed Archangel from Durham Brewery 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle 50 cl. Courtesy of Ungstrup. Hazy amber golden with an off-white head. Aroma of nuts and sweetish roasted malt. Quite full-bodied with sweetish roasted malt and fruit with some nuttiness. Lightly bitter finish. Excellent. 070209
cagarvie (40076) reviewed Archangel from Durham Brewery 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle at home ... id have thought more belgiam than ESA... but still as it stands ... dark amber ... sweet yeasty fruits little orange peel ... again some yeastyness ... again fruit peel and some sweet malts ... quite rich.
wyzzywyz22 (5889) reviewed Archangel from Durham Brewery 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle, Beer Ritz, Leeds. Poured a dark amber colour with minimal head. Aroma was dark fruit and caramel malt. Flavour had traces of spice and a nice rounded fruitiness. Not the best from Durham, but far from shabby.
yespr (55501) reviewed Archangel from Durham Brewery 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
50 cL bottle, courtesy of Ungstrup. Pours hazy orange with a small light yellow head. Malty and barley aroma. Yeasty and fruity flavoured with a mild caramel base. Mild spiced hops profile and somewhat yeasty spiced into a mild bitter and slight herbal finish.