6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Quite hazy orange to light-amber brew; yellowish tinted medium head, rather stable. Sweetish cookie/cakes, even gingerbread nose with a lining of aromatic hops. Some mossy notes as well, and walnuts. Quite bitter initial taste, not really hoppy, part vegetal, part walnut peel, but nowhere metallic. The malt is too feeble in appearance to give more than an impresson of some caramel, that seems even scorched thanks to the bitter lining. The problem with a beer as this is in its inability to sustain extreme flavours. This is where British brewers with their casks could give some enlightening examples as to how things can be done. Dry, long bitterish aftertaste, not metallic. Laudable, but it falls flat somewhere - in the body. Another one thanks to Mike Poperinge.
Tried
from Cask
on 26 Sep 2005
at 14:14