6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Backlog rating from 6/6/14. 500ml bottle at home after working in the yard, perhaps a new lawnmower beer? All I want is a nicely balanced, clean, refreshing blonde ale, slight hop resin notes for the bittering, clean biscuit grains, refreshing finish. That’s just what it is...hello new lawnmower beer!
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Feb 2015
at 05:00
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
backlog rating from 12/1/15. Draught from ATG, was worried that it would be overly sweet cherry-ish, cloying, cough syrup nastiness...but I was wrong. Lovely sweet stout colour and aroma of dark chocolate and soft cherry notes. Taste is wonderfully understated, highlighting more of the lactose and chocolate flavours rather than the cherry, but its there in the background. Nice finish, not overly sweet. Good one.
Tried
on 26 Feb 2015
at 04:57
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
backlog rating from 15/9/14. 500ml bottle at home. Pours a solid brown, light shines through but murky, tan head gone in an instant. Aroma of toasted brown bread, bittering hop resin. Taste is nicely balanced with enough of the toasted bread flavour to knock out the sweetness, lovely easy drinking beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Feb 2015
at 04:53
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle shared at Leightons pad. Many thanks to Colin for this one. Light hazed golden/ light orange coloured pour with a thin white head. Aroma is composed of light caramel, grainy, earthy, straw. Flavour is flabby doughy, orange, earthy grains, some orange peel, phenols. Grainy tannin. Palate is flabby, moderate carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Feb 2015
at 17:45
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle shared in London - many thanks to Colin. Pours mostly clear gold with a foamy white head. The nose has some yeast, grain, maybe leaves. Medium sweet flavor with nips of brown sugar, toasty bread, light dough, mild grassy bitterness. Light to medium bodied with fine carbonation. Finishes sweet, lightly astringent, with mellow orange rind, grass, toasted grains. So so.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Feb 2015
at 17:46
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Draught at Brewdock. Golden caramel with a thin head. Aroma is fruity hop. Flavour is bitter biscuit malt, bready on a dry bitter finish.
Tried
on 07 Feb 2015
at 08:54
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Cask at L Mulligan. Cloudy Amber with a solid head. Aroma is grapefruit hop. Flavour is dry fruity bitter hop, a little water. Tangy full mouth base, apricot jam finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 17 Jan 2015
at 17:55
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Draught at Blackbird. Light Amber with a thin head. Aroma is hoppy citrus. Flavour is light pine, bitter citrus, fruity but with a sharp dry bitter finish, almost sour.
Tried
on 17 Jan 2015
at 15:19
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle from Hanlon’s Garage, Longford [090115]
Dark copper amber, clear, frothy off white head, some lacing
Aroma of cinnamon, gingerbread, sweet fruity malts, no hops, quite spicy and aromatic
Taste - Cinnamon, spicy, lots of cinnamon, sweet caramel malts, dry spicy perhaps a little aggressive as it dominates the flavour
Palate - Soft carb, medium light body, rather sweet. Finish of heavy cinnamon, sweet malts
Overall - Not a fan of these pumpkin spicy brews. It was OK though and I drank most of the bottle.
Dark copper amber, clear, frothy off white head, some lacing
Aroma of cinnamon, gingerbread, sweet fruity malts, no hops, quite spicy and aromatic
Taste - Cinnamon, spicy, lots of cinnamon, sweet caramel malts, dry spicy perhaps a little aggressive as it dominates the flavour
Palate - Soft carb, medium light body, rather sweet. Finish of heavy cinnamon, sweet malts
Overall - Not a fan of these pumpkin spicy brews. It was OK though and I drank most of the bottle.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jan 2015
at 16:03
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
500mL bottle into a shaker. Pours a deep dark brown to black with a big of a chocolate brown hint when held up to the light. Medium tan head that dissipated quickly. Traditional porter aromas of roasted coffee beans, toffee, and some burnt toast. Flavour again is very traditional porter of the above as well as some chocolate notes, some nice hop bitterness throughout the finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jan 2015
at 12:56