7.3

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle at the Royal Exchange, Stourbridge, 28/02/2025.
Clear golden amber topped with an off white cap that thins to the edge.
Nose is stewed fruits, biscuit, caramel, grains.
Taste comprises liquid fruit cake, spice, prunes, dates, figs.
Medium bodied with a little bite, fine carbonation, semi drying close with a hint of booze.
Tidy winter warmer.

Historic check-in

6.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Historical tick which I am adding as a rate so that I can see the impact it has on my stats. 300 Beers To Try Before You Die.

7.2

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Cask at The Vine; clear copper pour with a creamy off white head, aroma has sweet caramel and light fruit, taste has sweet caramel, light bitterness, light spice and toffee apple. --- Beer merged from original tick of XXX / Delph Strong Ale on 08 Dec 2018 at 13:44 - Score: 7

6.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Gravity cask at Dudley beer festival. Pours orange with a medium head. Aroma is caramel, alcohol and toast. Taste has caramel and Christmas spice to start and toast on the finish.

8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Brown 500ml bottle, best before the end of June 2011, drank and reviewed on a snowy afternoon, 30th Nov 2010. Poured into a ’Batemans’ badged UK pint sleeve. Good amber body with a creamy, light tan coloured head of foam. The head left some good lacing as the beer level dropped. Aroma reminded me of sultanas and raisins, so a Rum hint within the smell, along with a heavy wiff of yeasts and alcohol. The taste is sharp and crisp, with the currents already mentioned coming through in the aftertaste. The alcohol is just about held in check, but not quite. A tinge of cinnamon also appears as the initial flavours fade in the mouth. In other words a Winter Warmer sort of beer. Very drinkable and a good warming brew, it fortified me for the walk into town through the cold and falling snow.

6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle 330ml. @ Chriso’s pre GBBF Shindig ’09.Clear medium yellow orange color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, caramel, oxidide malt, light to moderate hoppy. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20090801]

4.2

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3

Bottle at Chriso pre-GBBF tasting 09. Cloudy gold colour with thin white head. Musty on the aroma. Not good. In fact it was poor.

5.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Slightly hazy amber with a small off-white head. Aroma of caramel and dried fruit. Sweet and fruity flavour

6.3

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle at Chris-o’s Pre GBBF tasting and 2009 ... amber ... sweet melon watter hop ... big toffeee ... fruity hop ... little spic.