7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
2008-11-03, cask conditioned at J.D. Wetherspoon - Shakespear’s Head, London, 6-4-8-4-16=38
Amber color; medium-thin creamy head, persistent. Mild aroma of caramel and hops. Good body strength, with sweet caramel flavor; the hopping is a bit fruity, in the end there is some flavor of macadamia nuts, lightly buttery. The final is pleasant, with nice hops (between a 4 and a 5). Well balanced. Very good.
2003-11-29, cask conditioned, 1st pint of the barrel, 6-4-8-5-15=38
Hazy orange color. The aroma, malty, is still light, but the flavor is very interesting, sweet, bitter and fruity, much more harmonious than the American IPAs. Long strong final.
Amber color; medium-thin creamy head, persistent. Mild aroma of caramel and hops. Good body strength, with sweet caramel flavor; the hopping is a bit fruity, in the end there is some flavor of macadamia nuts, lightly buttery. The final is pleasant, with nice hops (between a 4 and a 5). Well balanced. Very good.
2003-11-29, cask conditioned, 1st pint of the barrel, 6-4-8-5-15=38
Hazy orange color. The aroma, malty, is still light, but the flavor is very interesting, sweet, bitter and fruity, much more harmonious than the American IPAs. Long strong final.
Tried
from Cask
on 30 Nov 2003
at 11:51
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
[Cask at Charlie's Bar] The aroma is light dominated by yeast and esters. The color is an unclear orange and it has a small dense head. The flavor is very light with some notes of malty sweetness and yeast. A boring Ale.
Tried
from Cask
on 02 Nov 2003
at 05:41
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
The aroma is very light with notes of esters and yeast. The color is orange closing in on amber and it has a small bubbly very fast disappearing head. The flavor is nicely sweet malty with notes of oranges, other fruits, and hops. It ends on a nice dry bitterness.
Tried
on 02 Nov 2003
at 05:36
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
The aroma is light with notes of malt. The color is orange and it has a beutiful head. The flavor is sweet malty with a grassy hoppy finish, though without much bitterness.
Tried
on 24 Oct 2003
at 16:58
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
A black beer with a beutiful brown head. The aroma is sweet malty with notes of smoke and (chocolate) bitterness. The flavor is slightly smoked and malty and it ends on a great bitterness. A really good beer.
Tried
on 08 Sep 2003
at 14:26
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
An amber beer with a good head. The aroma is sweet and bitter. The flavor is malty sweet with a good bitterness from a good hop sort.
Tried
on 08 Sep 2003
at 11:29
6.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 7
(Cask) Yellow-amber beer; slight, white head. Faint hops, typical Marstons' (Union?) smell. Bitter-English hops flavour. A bit soapy. Empty mouthfeel - for a 5.7 % IPA? I'll never get a Marstons' fan. I can't help it - maybe I just don't dig the Union style. Pedigree is the most overrated beer in the world, IMO, and this is similar.
Tried
from Cask
on 11 Aug 2003
at 05:47
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Plain ale appearance with a strongly hopped and caramel flavour and aroma. A good strongly hopped ale.
Tried
on 08 Aug 2003
at 14:18
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Plain stout appearance with a light frothy head. Pleasant lightly roasted aroma with a plain bitter flavour. Overall an average stout.
Tried
on 09 Jul 2003
at 16:37
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Dark brown beer almost black with a stout style head. Very oatmeal aroma and a malty oatmeal flavour. A very complex beer,and a very good beer. A great example of an English ale.
Tried
on 19 May 2003
at 15:00