Great Oakley Brewery Delapre Dark

Delapre Dark

 

Great Oakley Brewery in Tiffield, Northamptonshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  Traditional Beer - Old Ale Regular
Score
6.57
ABV: 4.6% IBU: - Ticks: 16
Delapre Dark is an old dark mahogany ale with a full flavour and a thin lasting creamy beige head. The ale is made from 5 different malts and has a medium sweet flavour with a chocolate bitterness, consisting of baking cocoa and dark fruits. Winning a Bronze in 2011 at the Society of Independant Brewers (SIBA), Bronze in 2010 at The Great British Beer Festival and another Bronze SIBA in 2006.
 

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

50 cL bottle, courtesy of Ungstrup. Pours hazy dark brown with a small off white head. Aroma is roasted malty and slight breadish. Chocolate, dark malty, breadish and mild fruity. Slight acidic touch. Lasting fruity and slight acidic finish.

Tried from Bottle on 28 Oct 2010 at 04:10


6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle 50 cl. Courtesy of Ungstrup. Pours black with a warm tint of red and a small, rough off-white head. Some hard roast and overripe fruit in the nose. Medium body, very low in carbonation, hard roast and ashes with dark fruits and a vague tartness. Rather ashy finish. 261010

Tried from Bottle on 26 Oct 2010 at 10:13


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

Cask handpump @ Reading Beer Festival 2008.Clear medium to dark amber brown color with a average, frothy - fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, caramel, chocolate. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium to full, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. (020508)

Tried from Cask on 07 Jun 2008 at 06:07


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Cask gravity at Reading BF 08. I seemed to have quite a few milds at this festival, but this was a genuine dark ale. Deep ruby with thin beige head. Decent dark beer with lots of dark fruits. Rather a lovely aroma of choc and then velvety choc on the end. Actually superb and just as good as their dark mild.

Tried from Cask on 03 Jun 2008 at 11:17


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

[i] [b] Cask at the Royal Oak Beer Festival, Oakley, Bucks/Oxon border 03-05-08 [/i] [/b]Pours black with a thin white head. The aroma is really quite hoppy with some streaky liquorice there as well and also some nice roasted notes. Taste is really good, the liquorice returns along with a real punchy bitterness it occasionally gets a bit sticky and the malts really underpin things very well, a lovely beer but I’m a fan of Great Oakley and rarely have I had a bad beer from them, very good. I would have struggled to catergorize this had I have not known from the programme notes that it was an Old Ale, I thought that maybe it was another top notch yet slightly unusual Mild from Great Oakley.

Tried from Cask on 04 May 2008 at 11:47


2.9
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 2.5

Cask/gravity at Battersea Beer Festival 6 Feb 08. Dark red brown colored. No head. Aroma and taste of coffee. Just cold coffee. Not good.

Tried from Cask on 18 Feb 2008 at 15:08