6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Friday afternoon, 31st January 2025; hand-pulled pint in the Castle Hotel, Bishops Castle, about 100 yards from the brewery. Clean and clear brown, copper bronze body, off-white crust that hung around for a while. Hop bitter with a decent malty base that gives a slight nutty flavour; no Citrus fruits were harmed brewing this beer.
Tried
from Cask
on 31 Jan 2025
at 18:00
7.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 8
500ml bottle from Cotteridge Wines, pours a near black with a off white head. Aromas & tastes of chocolate, caramel, hints of coffee, earth & rich malt. Medium body. Smooth slightly bitter finish
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jan 2025
at 12:31
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Hop Vault, Stourbridge, online. Pours a clear gold with small white head, some retention. Aroma is sweet, biscuit, bread, grassy hops. A bit like a few craft lagers I've had. Taste starts sweet with a decent bready malt character, then the hops give a floral-resin, light fruitiness and good grassy crisp bitterness in the finish. Light bodied, refreshing, clean and crisp like a good pilsener! Good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Dec 2024
at 02:22
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tried
on 31 Dec 2024
at 02:16
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Tried
on 31 Dec 2024
at 02:15
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Tried
on 31 Dec 2024
at 02:14
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask at Hops, Crewe. Pours a solid gold with a small off-white head and good lacing. The aroma is mainly hops with a distinct bitterness. In the mouth it is initially on the cusp between sweet and bitter, but ths latter gradually increases to dominate. It has quite a light texture with floral hops and grains/ The finish is distinctly dry and bitter with significant stickiness. This is reasonable but not particularly outstanding.
Tried
from Cask
on 07 Oct 2024
at 22:06
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Third of a pint at the 32nd Shrewsbury Beer Festival on 26th September 2024. Amber body with a red hue, clean and clear, off-white to beige crown, looked lovely. Malty, nutty, earthy and bitter, one of the best beers I had at the festival.
Tried
on 27 Sep 2024
at 22:30
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
500ml bottle (2014), forgotten about in the back of the cupboard until it came to move out of our house in Shrewsbury. Drunk the day before moving. Aged well, some toffee of course but not overly sweet, balanced, drinks well for a 10 year old trad ale.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Sep 2024
at 06:06
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
500ml bottle from Anthony's of Wellington: BBE March 2025. First beer of a mini-tasting with myself on 27th August 2024 (Margie is out with old school friends). Slight haze in the pale golden body, it's a dull gold too; on top a wispy white cover. Lemon like aroma and taste, fairly bitter in nature, some grapefruit flavours arriving mid-sip. It's yet another citrussy golden beer, but it's OK and a little different to the majority of beers in this 'style' or type.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Aug 2024
at 13:43