Double Donn
Donnington Brewery in Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire, England 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
6.28
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Nutty aroma with toffee and a trace of orange fruit. Sweetish, chewy, cereal malt flavour with an earthy edge and decent bitter finish.
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7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
500ml bottle. Clear dark copper colour with a beige head. Aroma of toffee, sweet malts. Taste is sweet, toffee, caramel, mildly nutty, light bitterness. Light-medium body.
Tried
from Bottle
from Natural Grocery Store
on 25 May 2025
at 16:56
6.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 6
500ml bottle. Pours brown with a white head. Aromas & tastes of toffee, caramel & malt. Medium body. Chewy finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 May 2025
at 07:29
6.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 5.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 6
Overall 7
500ml bottle bought at a gift shop in Burton-on-the Water, and shared with Gary. Good looking with its lacing rings from a decent off-white head over a clear mahogany coloured body. Inviting smell of caramel malts, mid-dry. Flavoured with caramel, bread, and dusty hops. Soft caramel-toffee like finish. Easy to drink. Pretty good. (Hotel room, Sheffield 28.04.2025).
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Apr 2025
at 15:10
29/05/2018. On GWSR from Broadway to Cheltenham Racecourse
Tried
on 27 Nov 2022
at 07:54
5/10
Bottle from The Donnington Brewery, Upper Swell, Stow-on-the-Wold. Told by the guy at the brewery that this is their SBA in a bottle. Pours a clear chestnut brown with no head. Flat looking. Aromas of caramel, toasty bread and a little spice. Taste has similar notes to the aroma but with some hints of nuts, wood and cardboard. Has an odd and not very pleasant aftertaste. Light to medium body with a smooth oily mouthfeel. The beer has no condition and is overall very disappointing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 May 2021
at 18:49
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Bottled. Clear deep amber, mid sized head. Aroma of hazelnuts and marzipan. Mid sweet with light to medium body and rounded mouthfeel. Earthy with caramel and hazelnuts. Low to medium bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Nov 2019
at 20:26
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
1/4/2019. Bottle from Tuffins Supermarket, Craven Arms. Pours pale amber with a lasting off-white head. Aroma of toffee, malt, hops, fruit, butterscotch and light stewed veg. Medium sweetness, light bitterness. Moderate body, oily texture, soft carbonation. So so.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Apr 2019
at 20:05
4/10
Tried
on 24 Oct 2015
at 09:59
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Bottle from Favourite Beers, Cheltenham. Copper coloured with a contrasting white head and slight carbonation. Nutty aroma with toffee and a trace of orange fruit. Sweetish, chewy, cereal malt flavour with an earthy edge and decent bitter finish. Good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Feb 2011
at 00:44
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle 50cl. at home.[ Thx. Fin ]. Clear medium to dark amber color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy malty, caramel, toffee. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and light bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft. [150908]
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Dec 2008
at 03:10