5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask, Hoylake Lights. Light golden, citrus/hoppy aroma. Taste is sweetish and has hints of clementine and peach. Inoffensive and decent enough if a bit on the thin side.
Tried
from Cask
on 24 Mar 2008
at 09:48
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask handpull at The Tickled Trout, Wye. OK ESB, some acidity on finish, reasonable fullness in mouth. Moderate condition. Malts have some dark fruit. I had a cold, so it was difficult to pick anything more out.
Tried
from Cask
on 10 Mar 2008
at 13:42
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
[i] [b] Cask at The Swan with Two Nicks, Worcester, 08-03-08 [/i] [/b] Pours golden with thin white head, in fact it’s actually a warm golden colour. There’s a sort of icing (on the top of a cake) sort of flavour to this, some honey but lacking in hoppiness and bitterness, it’s fine enough.
Tried
from Cask
on 09 Mar 2008
at 11:08
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask-conditioned at The Bag O’Nails, Bristol 1/3/08. Dark brown with no head. Pleasant aroma of milk chocolate, toffee and earthy hops. Sweet, chocolate flavour with a soft finish. Drinkable.
Tried
from Cask
on 01 Mar 2008
at 11:30
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask-conditioned at the Bag O’Nails, Bristol 11/2/08. Deep golden colour with a decent white head. Aroma of earthy malt and citrus hops. Flavour was of sweet malt with a decent bitter finish. Good.
Tried
from Cask
on 11 Feb 2008
at 14:05
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Cask (gravity) @ The National Winter Ales Festival 2008, Manchester, UK. Clear medium to dark yellow / golden color with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, fully diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is light to moderate malty, roasted, fruity, light alcohol. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. (170108)
Tried
from Cask
on 06 Feb 2008
at 13:45
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask (gravity) @ The National Winter Ales Festival 2008, Manchester, UK. Clear medium amber color with a small to average, fizzy, fair lacing, fully diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, caramel, berry, spicy, sweet licorice. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. (170108)
Tried
from Cask
on 06 Feb 2008
at 13:44
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask-conditioned at the Bag O’Nails, Bristol 28/1/08. Deep amber coloured with a slight off-white head. Aroma of hay and a touch of sweet malt. Flavour had some biscuit malt before a decent bitter finish. Drinkable.
Tried
from Cask
on 28 Jan 2008
at 14:34
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Cask gravity at Red Lion, Snargate. Probably the best Archers beer I’ve had. So roasted it almost tore my tongue off at the end. Good fullness.
Tried
from Cask
on 28 Jan 2008
at 05:26
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
[i] Cask at The National Winter Ales Festival, Manchester 18-01-07 [/i] A warm almost orange coloured beer with good clarity. Was quite surprised to see an Archers beer at this strength as more used to seeing a 1001 different versions of something around 4% from them, still back to the beer in question. There was a bloody good depth of flavour to this beer, ok so the alcohol wasn’t always that subtle but there was an awful lot else going on, I found plenty of tasty tangy fruits in there along with a surprising banana element amongst some other tropical stuff, and occasionally too much sweetness nonetheless I rather enjoyed this and would look out for again quite happily.
Tried
from Cask
on 20 Jan 2008
at 06:38