Bah Humbug! (Bottle)
Wychwood Brewery in Witney, Oxfordshire, England 🏴
Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Spiced Regular|
Score
6.26
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Bah Humbug is a brew using not just the traditional malted barley and hops, but also a big sprinkling of cinnamon. The effect of the cinnamon is to give a spicy, almost banana-like flavour as often found on German wheat beers; and this blends with the sweet-honeyed flavours of the Maris Otter barley to create a beer with all the fruit flavours of mince pies, Christmas Pudding and Christmas cake all rolled into one.
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6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottled 500ml. -at Pivoteka Zagreb. Nice amber coloured, small pale beige head, caramel in the nose. Sweet malty, fruity, caramel, some X-mas spices and notes of cinnamon with mild caramel again in the finish. Surprisingly pleasant and not bad at all.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Oct 2016
at 17:04
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle 50 cl. Ruby bronze color, weak foam. Aroma: malt, fruit, caramel, slightly soaked cherries, jam, sweet. Taste: cherry, caramel, slightly bitter fruit.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jun 2016
at 06:23
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle pour into nonic pint glass from Cigarette City. Aroma is strong bread, honey, cinnamon, banana, spice. Appearance is hazy light brown/orange with no sparkle, finger-width off-white head with poor retention and fair lacing. Taste is sweet banana, fruit, spices. Palate is light bodied with creamy texture, soft carbonation and sweet finish. Overall, certainly has the sweetness for the style but a little thin and could use a little bite.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jun 2016
at 21:24
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
500ml bottle. Pours a clear ruby with a small, creamy, short lived, beige head that leaves spotty lacing. Sweet aroma of caramel malt, cinnamon and dried fruit. Sweet flavour of caramel malt, dried fruit, cinnamon and a hint of banana with a dry, mildly bitter finish. Light to medium body with a watery texture and soft carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 May 2016
at 21:14
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle, 0.50l. Clear ruby brown color with thick creamy tan-like head and average sparkling appearance. Aroma of toffee, dark fruits, cinnamon, cloves and herbs. Taste starts with light sweet toffee and cinnamon, follows mild fruity, herbal and a bit papery, while finish is mild bitter. Light to medium body, slick texture and average carbonation in palate. Quite tasty, still a bit weak, but better than expected...
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 May 2016
at 10:36
7/10
Прекрасный вечер!
Tried
on 14 Apr 2016
at 00:27
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Pours a fairly clear ruby red color, darker shade. Topped with a small off-white head. Sweet biscuity aroma, some anise and cinnamon presence with nice chocolate addition - although biscuity feel dominates it. Taste is mildly bittery with fairly spicy presence and a hint of sweetness. Nice liquor aroma, somewhat rum and sherry like. Decent one.
Tried
on 03 Feb 2016
at 14:22
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Another Christmas special here, this time from Wychwood brewery. This dark amber beer is spiced with cinnamon, wich leads to quite a dry finish. Mostly bitter taste of this beer is accompanied by the subtle aroma of fruits. Overall, this beer is just lacking something. It’s not bad, but it feels a bit empty and quite bland. Really, nothing to write home about here. It was worth a try but I’d be hard pressed to choose this one again with so many better alternatives available. Was expecting a bit more from this seasonal beer.
Tried
on 03 Feb 2016
at 09:30
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4
Okay beige head and clear copper body. Aroma of sweet cola and vague malts, some fruity esters. Flavour is a lot of fruity esters with a vague malty finish. Watery a bit. Really not that interesting.
Tried
on 27 Dec 2015
at 00:43
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
(bottle) Clear, dark amber to chestnut colour with a firm, medium-sized and tanned foamy head. Juicy malty aroma with notes of caramel, marmalade, a whiff of cinnamon, nutty accents and fruity hops. Sweet and discreetly bitter flavour, light to medium bodied with a soft carbonation. Initially mildly nutty cara-malty taste with a bearable touch of cinnamon and a fruity hoppy background; sweet and delicately bitter finish with notes of toffee and cinnamon. Okay for a Winter-spice beer on a hot summer night. 31.VIII.15
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Sep 2015
at 11:38