7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Cask (gravity) @ The 16th Reading Beer and Cider Festival 2010, Reading, Berkshire England.Clear medium yellow orange color with a small, fizzy, virtually none lacing, fully diminishing, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, sugar, light alcohol. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat, finish feel is light alcoholic. [20100430] 6-2-6-3-13 Draught @ Zero Degrees, 9 Bridge Street, Reading, Berkshire, England RG1 2LR.ABV: 6.7%. Clear medium yellow orange colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, pale malt, sugar, moderate hoppy, flowers, grass, flowert hops. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20120502] 7-4-7-3-15
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Dec 2010
at 02:30
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask, gravity, Wantage Beer Festival 19.11.10 Pours gold, touch hazy and with very little head, in fact it’s quite lifeless and lacking in get up and go. Sweet, sluggish, heavy and syrupy and nothing like a decent German lager in my eye’s. Worst of the night. A6 A3 T6 P3 Ov11 2.9
Tried
from Cask
on 21 Nov 2010
at 00:13
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
[Keg at Zerodegrees Reading] Pours a slightly cloudy yellow colour with a small white head and obvious prickly fizz. The tartness of the apple goes very well with the slightly sour lemon of the wheat beer; it leaves almost cidery overtones, but it’s possibly a little sweet by the end Like all ZeroDegrees beers, it’s too cold and fizzy. Nevertheless, this is one of the bet of their many flavoured wheat beers, and makes me wonder why more people aren’t doing apple wheat beers.
Tried
on 20 Nov 2010
at 12:53
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
[Keg at Zerodegrees Reading] Gold, slight white head, mod to strong carb. Strong continental grassy hop flavour with green leaves and a little citrus behind. OK pilsener, certainly should not be classed as an Oktoberfest despite the name and time of year implying this.
Tried
on 20 Nov 2010
at 12:49
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Tap at the London Brewers Showcase. Pours a shiney, honey-god with a light head. Honey, caramel malt aroma kicks things off. Sweet, buttery flavor with some nice, citrusy bitterness. Medium bodied with fine carbonation. Buttery, cereal finish with some earthy bitterness. Not too shabby. (3.6)
Keg at the brewpub, London. Pours dark gold with a creamy white head. Lightly toasted bready malt nose. Light to medium sweet flavor with toasty bread, some bitter pine, leaves, dried orange, light earth. Medium bodied with average carbonation. Light dry pine finish with mellow toasted sugars, brown bread, some dirt. Decent. (3.5)
Keg at the brewpub, London. Pours dark gold with a creamy white head. Lightly toasted bready malt nose. Light to medium sweet flavor with toasty bread, some bitter pine, leaves, dried orange, light earth. Medium bodied with average carbonation. Light dry pine finish with mellow toasted sugars, brown bread, some dirt. Decent. (3.5)
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Oct 2010
at 06:23
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tap at the London Brewers Showcase. Pours cloudy brown with a moderate, off-white head. Sweet, malty aroma with hints of coffee. Pleasant flavor with lightly roasted malts and subtle cocoa. Medium bodied with crisp carbonation. Finishes well balanced with sweet, modestly dark malts and some light bitterness. Very good. (3.8)
Keg at the brewpub, London. Pours dark brown witha creamy, tan head. Burnt toasty bread nose. Light to medium sweet flavor with rich chocolate, toasty brown bread, light roast. Light to medium bodied with fine to average carbonation. Light sweet finish with mild roast, pleasant cocoa, light minerals, faint earthy bitterness. Great stuff, wonderful balance. I think they’ve really nailed the style. (3.9)
Keg at the brewpub, London. Pours dark brown witha creamy, tan head. Burnt toasty bread nose. Light to medium sweet flavor with rich chocolate, toasty brown bread, light roast. Light to medium bodied with fine to average carbonation. Light sweet finish with mild roast, pleasant cocoa, light minerals, faint earthy bitterness. Great stuff, wonderful balance. I think they’ve really nailed the style. (3.9)
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Oct 2010
at 06:21
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask gravity at Reading BF 2010. Thanks to wheresthepath for this one, cheers Anth. It is quite bocky on the aroma. Spring zesty fresh, yes a bit of syrupy alcohol, typical of a bock. Bit of zesty spring in a glass I thought with some sticky alcohol.
Tried
from Cask
on 08 May 2010
at 04:14
4.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
[Gravity cask at Reading BF] Sweet & sticky from the off, with grassy hops and maybe some thyme poking through. Syrup-y in the finish, with just a hint of hidden bitterness lurking in the background. Too sweet for me. NOTE: This is ZeroDegrees Spring Bock, I stupidly forgot to add the name but have contacted the Admins to fix. Sorry!
Tried
from Cask
on 01 May 2010
at 15:54
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
[Keg at ZeroDegrees Reading] Slightly cloudy gold with a neat, thick white head and slight fizz. Weird aroma - kind of a sweet and sour mashed up biscuit - that I found alternately appealling and repulsive. On tasting there’s a real sour ale thing going on; by degrees vinegar-sour, then tart, then lemon-sharp. The sweet, sticky peach syrup is there, but only in the background. After the initial shock I was really rather enjoying this by the end, but it’s so different to their other fruit beers that I was left wondering if it’s a batch that has gone wrong and created this intriguing beer in error.
Tried
on 03 Mar 2010
at 13:34
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
[Keg at ZeroDegrees Reading] Pours amber with a small white head and a slight but annoying fizz. As with all ZeroDegrees beers it was served far too cold - my hands were icy by the time I’d used them to warm the beer to the correct temperature. Aroma of orange, which carries into a fruity initial taste. A sprinkle of herbs and a lump of granite, followed by some earthy bitterness. Sweet caramel behind. OK, but a little let down by a very thin, watery mouthfeel.
Tried
on 03 Mar 2010
at 13:16