Special cask version for JD Wetherspoons Spring beer festival 2025
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6.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Clear chestnut brown. Light sweet, toasted brown bread. Little earth, nip of cocoa, berries. Drinks ok, very basic.
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Hamilton Hall (JDW)
on 20 Mar 2025
at 18:30
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask at Standing Order, Derby. Pours a dark (almost very dark) reddish brown with a small tan head and good lacing. Thereโs roasted malts and dark fruits in the aroma plus some plumy hints. In the mouth it is slightly sweet with a creamy texture. Flavour has dark fruits, roasted malts, coffee and traces of cocoa wit some liquorice coming through later leading to a fruity finish. This is decent, but is a bit thin.
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from Cask
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Standing Order (JDW)
on 11 Mar 2025
at 00:00
6.9/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
This is the one of two ales by name previously tried before the Wetherspoon Spring Beer Festival 2025, so not exactly a new rate, but a variation tick. Very nice in cask form. Easy, light roasted, hint of nuttiness in aroma.
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Lord Rosebery (JDW)
on 10 Mar 2025
at 16:24
6.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 6.5
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
On cask at the Standing Order.
Appearance - deep brown to black with a thin beige head.
Nose - sweet chocolate, then dry chocolate with an edge of plum.
Taste - plums, prunes but mainly chocolate and brown bread.
Palate - light to medium bodied, with a roasty finish.
Overall - pleasant but lacks body.
Appearance - deep brown to black with a thin beige head.
Nose - sweet chocolate, then dry chocolate with an edge of plum.
Taste - plums, prunes but mainly chocolate and brown bread.
Palate - light to medium bodied, with a roasty finish.
Overall - pleasant but lacks body.
Tried
from Cask
at
Standing Order
on 10 Mar 2025
at 15:23
6.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 6.5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at the Briar Rose; dark brown pour with a thin light tan head, aroma has light coffee, taste has dark fruits, a hint of liquorice, unexpected taste from the aroma, but was ok
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Briar Rose
on 09 Mar 2025
at 10:58
6.9/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
Cask handpull at County Hotel JDW Ashford. Very dark brown cola coloured beer. Lasting cream head. Some chocolate on the aroma. Smooth in the mouth. Some dark fruits in the flavour. Some dryness on the finish. Some plum Some blackcurrant flavour. Some dryness. Decent fruity stout.
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County Hotel
on 05 Mar 2025
at 18:23