5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottler at home ... brown tiny hint red ... rich fruityness touch of malt and a little vinegar ... sharp sour rich malt ...a rich fruity roast malt ... thats let down by a sourness whichi think isnt meant to be there.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jul 2007
at 14:09
4.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
(Bottle 50 cl) Courtesy of chris_o. Hazy, amber golden with a small, off-white head. Weak aroma of malt. Light and somewhat watery body, vitamin accents and a touch of nuts. The finish is dry. 100507
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jun 2007
at 11:44
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. (THX to Papsoe) Dark golden colour with a beige head. Aroma is hop, caramel, malt, roasted. Flavour is hop, caramel, malt. ok beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jun 2007
at 10:41
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle. (at papsoe’s pre-festival tasting) Golden-orange body, almost clear, with a small, white head. Caramel, malt and some hops in the aroma. A bit regular, but it’s not bad for a Christmas beer. Pleasant bitterness in the flavor to fill in with the malt and caramel. Medium to full body, and a finish that is mostly hopped, leaving the malt in the background. Pleasant and quaffable. (070510)
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 May 2007
at 12:59
7.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Picked up from the ’Little Beer Shop’, Ludlow, Salop, 10-03-07 Poured a very dark brown colour, coffee and nut’s in the aroma. Beer tasted very good, nice chocolatey taste, came across as being slightly weaker than the ABV suggested but most enjoyable. A7 A3 F7 P3 Ov14 3.4 Had this again Bottle that I picked up at Waitrose, Gt Shelford, Nr Cambridge, consumed 26-06-09 at me mum’s Pours chestnut brown with an off-white head. Its nutty, malty and there are mollassess on the nose, touch of roastedness also. Taste is more of the same with a nicely bitter edge, touch of dark fruit and more roastyness in the mouth, really good and better than I remember last time. A7 A5 F7 P4 Ov14 3.7
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Mar 2007
at 02:31
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
500ml bottle from Bacchanalia, Cambridge. Copper colour with thin off white head. Yeasty, green apple bitter. Some hop, citrus hoppiness grows to the finish. Prickly carbonation. Fairly plain bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jan 2007
at 11:21
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
500ml bottle from Bacchanalia, Cambridge. Deep ruby with disappearing beige head. Choccy porter, nice choc malt. Bit thin in mouth, intensity and some dark fruit sourness comes in later. Really quite a nice choccy porter. Bit watery in mouth.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jan 2007
at 11:20
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Bottled. Slightly unclear golden beer with sediments and a small white head. Sour aroma, probably wild yeast, with fruity and floral notes behind. Some bitter orange too. The flavor is fruity, acidic and citric, with a stinging bitterness in the end. Too thin and watery. It is still 6 months to BBE-date, maybe the brewery have a problem with the sanitation, cause this beer probably shouldn’t be sour. Other than that, it is a well-tasting and refreshing beer. (060806)
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Aug 2006
at 13:56
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
(Cask at Wenlock Arms, London 22 Apr 2006) Golden amber colour. Nose is fruity and hoppy with hints of orange and mandarin. Taste is fruity (citrus), starts sweet but ends in a drier rather hoppy finish. Refreshing and easy to drink, but somewhat on the thin side.
Tried
from Cask
on 26 Apr 2006
at 14:23
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Orange-amber clear beer; small yellowish head, slightly irregular. Rather sourish nose, as pickled fruits, and then dry hops and some faraway malts kick in. Surprising fresh flowery hops taste - makes me think of cask Landlord. Flavour of - bananaflower?, dried corianderleaf and faint spruce. Delicate and nice, light sourish touch intertwining with the hopbitter and a suspicion of maltsweet. Light and dry. It’s very light for a Christmas ale, but admittedly, perfect for a bottled best bitter. Can’t help but liking this a lot - thanks, MatW.
Tried
from Cask
on 22 Jan 2006
at 08:43