Fin (18365) reviewed Russian Stout from Bottle Brook 16 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Cask, gravity at Merton Winter Beer Festival 05-02-10 Pours black with a light beige head. Roasty notes on nose along with some coffee and bitter chocolate. Taste is more of the same but chocolate is quite bitter in the background, quite dry and very easy drinking tastes nothing like 8% If tasting blindfold I would have guessed 5% tops, little fruity tang half way through. Enjoyable stuff but not quite what I was expecting. A7 A4 F7 P3 Ov14 3.5
Fin (18365) reviewed Columbus from Bottle Brook 16 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Cask, handpump at The Old Oak, Horsley Woodhouse,Derbyshire 29-01-10 Pours lemony gold with a white bubbly head and just a touch of haze that eventually settled out leaving this with a very good clarity. Nice light fruity beer, steady but not too prolonged bitterness, enjoyable but just not as good as the London Lady. A6 A4 F7 P4 Ov13 3.4
Fin (18365) reviewed London Lady from Bottle Brook 16 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Cask, handpump at The Old Oak, Horsley Woodhouse,Derbyshire 29-01-10 Has a wonderful aroma, lovely hoppiness and then creamy vanilla, cornish cream, great stuff and really vying with the Thornbridge Kipling that Loz was supping in the aroma stakes. Nice buzzy bitterness, creamy fruitiness, crisp. Golden in colour with a white bubbly rim of bubbles. A beer that I stopped writing about and just sat back and enjoyed, lovely stuff. A8 A4 F8 P4 Ov16 4.0
Ungstrup (52110) reviewed Road Runner from Bottle Brook 16 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Cask at Smithfield Hotel, Manchester. A hazy light yellow beer with a dense white head. The aroma has notes of malt as well as lighter notes of citrus and caramel. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, caramel, and elderflowers, leading to a dry and lightly bitter finish, where the elderflower note lingers.
Svesse (15730) reviewed Columbus from Bottle Brook 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
(Cask at Ship & Mitre, Liverpool, 21 July 2009) Golden colour with frothy, white head. Fruity nose with citrus peel, grapefruit and freshly cut grass. Fruity taste with notes of citrus, grapefruit, fresh grass and fresh hops in the finish. Rather light body but with a generous hop character. Tasty and refreshing.
cagarvie (40076) reviewed Legitimate Expenses from Bottle Brook 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
cask at RBESG 09 Shefield ... amber ... white head ... lemon hop nose ... bright le,mon grassy hop.
Svesse (15730) reviewed Road Runner from Bottle Brook 16 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
(Cask at Ship & Mitre, Liverpool, 19 July 2009) Golden amber colour with brief, white head. Fruity, hoppy nose with citrus peel and grapefruit. Fruity taste with notes of grapefruit, lemon zest and fresh hops in the finish. Rather thin body with balanced sweetness. Very nice hop character makes it quite enjoyable.
Fin (18365) reviewed Werberger from Bottle Brook 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Brought to me in a carry-out from my dad from the Royal Oak, Horsley Woodhouse, Derbyshire, consumed 10-08-09 Pours reddy brown with good clarity. There is some toffee and malt on the nose and some burnt malt. Taste is initially burnt sugar and vanilla with some smokiness from the malts showing though not overly smoky. Its sticky but not too sweet and with a reasonable bitter touch. In fairness having it the day before at the pub would have likely seen it notch up a couple of more points for freshness. A6 A3 F6 P3 Ov13 3.1
Fin (18365) reviewed Pioneer from Bottle Brook 16 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Cask at Merton Summer Beer and Cider Festival, Merton, Oxon, 18-07-09 Pours warm gold in colour with a good white head, looks wise its great and only bettered by the Millstone Tiger Rut. I had this a few times over the weekend and my initial rating of 3.5 just kept moving north. There was some stunning tropical fruits going on in this beer with banana and as the description says melon, wonderfully flavoursome beer. If I had one criticism then it was possibly a tad sweet but this was a very minor niggle. Really tasty beer that flew out of the cask, first beer to sell out by a country mile and if I’d have put out beer of the festival slips I’m in no doubt this would have won. Surprisingly easy drinking, not overly bitter, even at 6.5% a lot of people who are session beer drinkers got onto this and stayed on it, it was very moreish. Great stuff, that I had to mark up each time I tried it. Cheers to Richard Leighton for brewing this for Merton. A7 A5 F8 P4 Ov16 4.0
Fin (18365) reviewed IPA from Bottle Brook 16 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Cask at The Old Oak Inn, Horsley Woodhouse, Derbyshire 14-07-09 Pours gold with thin white small bubbly head. Some hops but also little bit of a sick smell on nose, strangely I didn’t find this latter component too off putting and the hops did drown it out after a while. Juicy fruity beer with good streaky shards of bitterness, a decent beer that went down well with all around the table but not really a proper IPA. A7 A3 F7 P4 Ov13 3.4