Umbel Ale (Cask)
(Batch of Umbel Ale)
Nethergate Brewery in Long Melford, Suffolk, England ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
6.12
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Freshly toasted coriander seeds are added to the grist and at the later stages of the boil, resulting in a festival of flavour and aroma. This delightful beer is a real thirst quencher, and is particularly good as an accompaniment to curry.
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6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Gylden. Lavt tett skum. Tynn teppelacing. Beskjeden sitrusaroma. Smaken sitrus & vanilje. Tรธrr, lett bitter avslutning.
Tried
on 18 Feb 2023
at 15:29
5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Hazed nutty color with a thin off white layer on top. Mild intensity in the aroma. Medium light body and a quite soft carbonation level. Tad sweet and a moderate bitterness. Caramel malty, fruity and some herbal (coriander) notes in the flavor.
[Handpull at Mulberry Tree in Ipswich, England]
[Handpull at Mulberry Tree in Ipswich, England]
Tried
on 06 Dec 2016
at 03:27
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Cask at the Red Lion, Whittlesford. Copper coloured with a white head. Grassy aroma, taste is coriander with a little orange. Decent, but noticing spectacular
Tried
from Cask
on 26 Jan 2015
at 16:51
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at the Live and Let Live, Cambridge. Golden brown with a larger-than-usual white head. Honeyed grassy smell with a hint of cinnamon and orange peel. Slightly sweet at first, the taste turns more bitter toward a dry finish. The flavour of ground coriander asserts itself in the taste without dominating the profile. Body is weaker than I would have liked. Decent, well crafted and very drinkable.
Tried
from Cask
on 15 Nov 2014
at 03:49
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
From cask at Crosse Keys. Pours clear and golden orange with a small white head. Aroma is mild toasted malty. Bitter. Crisp fruity. Mild sweet impression. Crisp hoppy. Light bitter and hoppy finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 15 Aug 2014
at 02:17
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at the live and let live, Cambridge. It pours clear amber with a bubbly white head. The nose is earthy, light toast, fruity, herbal, floral and brown bread. The taste is bitter-sweet, earthy, brown bread, but, caramel, wood and light herbal notes with a dry finish. Medium body and soft carbonation. Thankfully the coriander is not overdone. Interesting enough.
Tried
from Cask
on 21 Jul 2014
at 05:18
5.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Hazy amber, lots of coriander, some biscuity malts for balance and light bitterness. Decent bitter.
Tried
on 15 Feb 2014
at 08:57
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Cask at the Victoria Inn, Rugby, 16/12/13. Almost clear golden with a good sized white head that retains, good full glass lacing ensues. Nose is light spice, biscuit malt, faint ginger, straw. Taste comprises lemon rind, ginger snap biscuit, corriander notes, straw. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, light bitterness in the finish. Ok spiced up bitter.
Tried
from Cask
on 19 Dec 2013
at 04:07
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Two hand-pulled pints in The Cock Hotel, wellington: one on 29th Nov 13, one on 1st Dec 13. Looked the same but the second pint wasnโt as mellow as the first, had more flavour and seemed โcrisperโ. Different barrel, or just two days older: should have asked the Landlord I suppose. Pours an orange/copper colour with a tight white crown. The aroma was fairly weak on both pints: some floral and light fruit esters with hints of spices. The taste is far from weak though: full of flavour with the coriander standing out within the blend of bittering hops and mild malts. Medium bodied and a pleasant change from the light golden cask brews that are flooding the UK market currently.
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Dec 2013
at 20:40
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask at Angleterre, Helsinki. Colour is clear copper with small white head. Aromas and flavours are citrus, bitterness, grass and hops.
Tried
from Cask
on 14 Dec 2012
at 08:20