Wessex Craft Brewers Old Shag
Branded Drinks / Integrated Bottling Solutions in Coleford, Gloucestershire, England 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
5.79
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Old Shag is a well rounded hoppy beer, with a hint of bitterness. Ideal for quenching those raging thirsts.
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5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle shared with Ashton McCobb. Light gusher. Pours hazy golden amber with a thick white head. Aromas of caramel, light lemon, biscuit. Hobnobs. Taste is more of the same. Sweet finish. Dull.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Dec 2016
at 07:35
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle from Beers of Europe. Appearance - it’s a slight gusher. Then golden amber with a nice fluffy head. Nose - caramel mostly. Oatmeal. Taste - hobnobs, but very grainy. Palate - light to medium bodied with a creamy texture and a finish that could be cleaner. Overall - not great.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Dec 2016
at 07:35
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle with RCH as the brewer. Slightly hazed dark orange ale with a sweetness that is a mix of grain and fruit. Has orange notes including in its aroma.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Jan 2014
at 14:06
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
500 ml bottle. Clear golden body with a small and diminishing off-white head. Aroma is light malty with fresh bread. Flavor is light malt, hint of caramel and almost no bitterness. Body is weak and thin with short finish. Noting really wrong here except for being rather uninspired and boring. Plain straightforward British bitter with nothing extraordinary anywhere.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Feb 2009
at 11:26
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle. It pours a clear, slightly chill hazed golden body under a small off-white head. Some lace work. Slightly puke like initially on the aroma, soon followed by a slight roasted breadyness and caramel. Quite weak, with some fruity hops in the background. Metallic hints in the far back. Main problem though, is that it’s too weak. The flavor is much the same, boring and uninspired, but the hops are allowed a little more space to play on, giving a lemony touch and some bitterness. Quite thin in the mouth. Short, weak and balanced finish. The beer is too sweet to be really quenching, but it’s a decent brew, although it’s as boring as Norwegian telly in the 70’s. (090210)
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Feb 2009
at 14:34
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle 50cl. @ home.Light unclear light to medium amber orange grey color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, sweet ala candy, tobac sweet smoked notes, old sour pipe tobac. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and light light bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily to weatery, carbonation is soft. (190808)
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Oct 2008
at 05:12
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Described as "a dark, golden bitter" and as a "pleasure of the older generation". Well, it comes with a filmy head over a dark, amber body. Lightly hopped aroma. Taste of old books with a hoppy touch followed by a smooth and dry bitter ending. An ordinary English bitter, I would say (500ml bottle enjoyed at a hotel room in Oslo, 14.11.2007).
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Nov 2007
at 15:00
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle at cardinal, stavanger. Dark golden colour with an off-white head. Aroma is fruit, malt, hop. Flavour is fruit, malt, hop, citrus. ordinary beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Sep 2007
at 11:09
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
500 ml bottle, courtesy of Cardinal pub, Stavanger, as "Branded Drinks Old Shag". ABV is 4.0%. Amber colour, decent head. Very moderate aroma, just a hint of malt and toffee. Moderate malty and biscuity flavour, very moderate hops. Not bad, but not remarkable either.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Jul 2007
at 05:47
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
a Light brown coloured ale, with a light maltaroma ,light malt with a sweet malt syrup fininsh
Tried
on 02 May 2007
at 05:42