6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
2008: Cask at the Market Porter. A little roasted malt for aroma. Dark amber brown color with a beige head. Medium body with smooth carbonation. Starts with a great stone fruit flavor (like light, not dark), which turns into cardamom, wood, or some herb. So it finishes dry and decently bitter. But the flavor is mystifying. 2011: Bottle from a Costcutter in Penzance. Pours amber with a transient off-white head. Aroma of mildly roasted malt. Flavor is a bit malty with some citrus/fruit bitter. Pretty balance, finishing on the bitter side. There is something strange which suggests roasted marshmallow.
Tried
from Cask
on 24 May 2008
at 15:40
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Cask/GBBF. Yellow with a small white head. Grass with a hint of citrus in the aroma. Mostly sweet flavour.
Tried
from Cask
on 21 Dec 2007
at 15:25
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask@GBBF2007. Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is fruity hoppy with wooden and vegetably hints. Flavour is fruity malts/hops and some earthyness. A bit of apples too.
Tried
from Cask
on 04 Sep 2007
at 01:05
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle picked up at Tuckers Maltings, Newton Abbot in November. Black as black can be, too sweet but there were some dried fruits on the nose and kicking about in the flavour dept’ other than that I was somewhat dissapointed by this.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Dec 2006
at 01:03
4.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottle at Kook’s Leaving Do at Chris_o’s. Deep chestnut, lasting beige head. Odd aroma. Yeasty/film developer. Malt in mouth. It is a bit like a Belgian beer, bit of lemon to start, then later some choc malt, quite sharp and acidic. Not exactly nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Sep 2006
at 12:03
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Cask gravity at Battersea Beer Festival 2006. Deep copper/amber colour with disappearing head. US style hop aroma with grapefruit. Not a huge amount of malt. Citric finish. Bit of toffee, bit of smoke and overall a bit thin.
Tried
from Cask
on 10 Feb 2006
at 10:12
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 10
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Cask conditioned at the 32nd Cambridge Beer Festival, gravity dispense. Golden colour. LOVELY aroma of tropical fruits. Fruity and malty flavour. Hazelnuts, fruits/berries and hops in the finish. Very good.
Tried
from Cask
on 29 May 2005
at 09:08
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pale amber with greenish shine, hazy; good medium-sized head, yellowish. ??? What is it with this brace of Britbeers I got? This smells pure horseblanket! BBD is about 5 months past, true. Shortlived, however, turning woody and especially grassy. Bitter taste, very good British hops-bitter; nice & refreshing. There’s some little malty sweetness underneath, and a fruity flavour, turning it into a hopped banana-orange drink - but then one I like. Light MF, but refreshing, nice fresh hopbite. Pleasing beer, bit Weizen character. I’m starting to warm to Keltek brewery, even if I dread revisiting Blue Anchor...
Tried
on 28 Sep 2004
at 12:52
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Black with brownish shine, totally opaque; slim, slightly irregular but rather dense brown head. Sourish-lactic nose, Flemish brown-like, superimposed on the classical chocolate cake. Whew -taste! Bitter, sweet and sour at the same time - some jumble. Flavours of smoked/cigar ash, bitter chocolate, fruit acids, lactic, berries, grapes and sweet cake. Very full-bodied, chewy. Aftertaste is acid-etched sweetness. Extremely likeable and dangreously drinkable for its ABV. Searched long after this -well worth the waiting. Thanks to MatW!
Tried
on 10 Mar 2004
at 13:46