Challenger Special
Saltaire Brewery in Shipley, West Yorkshire, England 🏴
Bitter - ESB / Strong Bitter Regular|
Score
6.33
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jimgreen (21510) reviewed Challenger Special from Saltaire Brewery 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Cask at the Wellington, Birmingham. Poured a clear medium amber with a thin white head. The aroma is malt, light floral hop. The flavour is moderate to strong bitter with a light watery strong floral hop, washing up liquid bitter, light spice palate and a lingering bitter finish. Medium bodied with soft carbonation. The bitterness in the finish hangs around forever and it’s not pleasant.
Svesse (15730) reviewed Challenger Special from Saltaire Brewery 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
(Cask at Craft Beer Co Clerkenwell, 27 Nov 2015) Dark brown colour with frothy, beige head. Malty, fruity nose with chocolate, caramel and grapefruit. Malty, hoppy taste with notes of chocolate, caramel, citrus, a touch of resin and a balanced citric bitterness. Medium body, with a slight sweetness. Well balanced and tasty. Nice one.
Olut (21769) reviewed Challenger Special from Saltaire Brewery 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Cask @ Dirty Dicks, Halifax. Reddish-brown with a creamy head. Has a sweetened aroma and a creamy sweet taste.
RichTheVillan (12489) reviewed Challenger Special from Saltaire Brewery 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Cask at Brum Beer Fest; dark blonde pour with thin white head, spicey aroma, slight spice taste and a hint of lemon.
stravale (3279) reviewed Challenger Special from Saltaire Brewery 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cask @ The Sheaf Island JDW [161013]
Dark amber, clear, dense off white head, good lacing
Aroma - very little on the nose here
Taste of caramel malts, soft toffee, some mellow zest, brown sugar, touch of toasted malt, slight earthy hop, quite a malty beer
Palate - Medium body, oily. Finish has a bitter linger
Overall - OK
cagarvie (40076) reviewed Challenger Special from Saltaire Brewery 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
cask at cloisters .... copper red ... small tan head ... soft toffee fruits nose ... sweet toffeee malts ... soft cherry ... soft toffee malt roast ...sweet roast... but a little non descript.
HenrikSoegaard (21963) reviewed Challenger Special from Saltaire Brewery 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Cask. Frothy white fair mostly deminishing head. Amber colour. Moderate malty and light hoppy aroma. Modrate bitter flavor. Average moderate bitter finish. Oily palate.
saxo (29721) reviewed Challenger Special from Saltaire Brewery 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Cask @ Cask Pub & Kitchen. Nice head with good duration. Color is dark amber. Aroma and taste are caramel, malt, nuts, soy and hops. Soft carbonated and medium bodied.
Fin (18365) reviewed Challenger Special from Saltaire Brewery 18 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle, picked up at Saltaire Wines, Saltaire, West Yorkshire 04-05-07. Like Magic Dave say’s this has a smokey roasty nose to it but with some cocoa powder and bitter coffee, all of these came through in the taste which was also quite bitter, but good for it. Really nice bottled beer that I would seek out again. 3.6 also had this recently at Cask at The Brunswick, Derby 17-08-08 Pours dark brown chocolate abounds in this cask version, very soft rasted malty flavours, the bitterness only really surfaces at the end 3.7
Downender (11275) reviewed Challenger Special from Saltaire Brewery 18 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottled. Very dark brown with reddish tones. Almost no head and little carbonation. Aroma of sweet malt with a hint of roasted coffee. Flavours of red fruits and toffee. Not much of a finish. Would echo comment about this not tasting like a 5.2% beer. Ok.