8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
From bottle. Pours amber with bubbly head. Big stone-fruity hop aroma that continues on into a fruit salad of a beer. Sufficient malting to not have the hops completely dominate. Walks a lovely line halfway between English and West Coast styling. One of the best beers I’ve tasted from the Bright stable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Sep 2015
at 23:16
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle. Very dark brown with a tan head. Aroma of licorice, molasses, nut oil, some roasted malt, pepper. No smoke. Texture of cream. Very smooth a clean with sweet singed caramel leading into licorice and spices (pepper, Sichaun pepper, anise). Interesting, wish it wasn’t quite so strong.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jul 2015
at 08:14
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
[7/15] Bottle. Amber with an inch of white head that lasts all the way. Big noseful of hops: loads of tropical fruit (passionfruit, lychee, guava), hashish, a touch of menthol, grass, singed toffee. Very sweet and fairly plain toffee, creamy texture. Waves of resin, tropical fruit, grass, pepper. Bitterness is only enough really to clean up the sweetness. A bit on the sweet side for me but very good indeed. [3.9] [10/16] Really very sweet but delightful. [4/18] Perhaps less dopey and even more fruity this time. I like the way eventually there's just pepper.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jul 2015
at 07:47
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Pours black with a small tan head.Nose shows cocoa, coffee grounds, liquorice and heavy roasted malt.Very roasty flavours, quite dry, somewhat boozy. Almost acrid. Some coffee notes.
Tried
on 19 Feb 2015
at 01:11
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
So it seems this version has some of a stock ale aged in a whisky barrel blended into it. Bottle. Black with an inch of tan head that lasts well. Fruity and earthy aroma with chocolate, plums, muscat, whisky, fruitcake spices. Taste has mocha, whisky, spices and an interesting sour plum/ berry note that’s a little astringent. Fairly bitter and a bit ashy at the end. Like this a little less than the old version as it is now, but this may well be spectacular in a couple of years.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Dec 2014
at 09:18
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. Lovely clear bronze with an off white head that soon retreats to the rim. Aroma of rich toffee and smoke is straightforward and good. Lowish carbonation - wouldn’t have minded just a tad more. Sweet with gentle bitterness. Woody rather than hammy smoke. Would’ve like a little of a deeper bottom layer in the malts. Nowhere to hide with this sort of thing and it’s pretty convincing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Nov 2014
at 05:32
6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask (gravity). Cloudy amber with a few bubbles. Aroma of peach, pears, caramel. I’m a couple of days late to the party, so perhaps it’s lost condition: anyway it’s completely flat. But still tastes pretty fresh and like a pretty good session bitter. Lightish bodied and summery, but not watery. Fruit as in te aroma, along with some bread crust. Fairly dry at the end with moderate bitterness.
Tried
from Cask
on 12 Feb 2014
at 04:01
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Cask at The Local Taphouse, Melbourne. Cloudy copper colour. Englisg style cask bitter character with a bit of strawberry and caramel. Mid dry with sofy mouthfeel and light, yet firm body. Earth, caramel and red berries and spice. mid bitter finish. Nice English style low gravity cask bitter.
Tried
from Cask
on 08 Feb 2014
at 22:48
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours amber with a fading head.Nose shows lychees, papaya, rockmelon along with fruit confectionery. A fair whack of sweet clean malt underneath.Full-on flavours. Big fruity notes along with truckloads of sweet clean malt roll through followed by an aggressive bitterness.Carbonation could be a little higher.
Tried
on 06 Jan 2014
at 19:06
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottled, thanks baggio! Near black, small beige head. Rich aroma of coffee, brandy and licorice. Mid sweet with medium-full body and clean, rounded mouthfeel. Coffee folllowed by a pepperyu alcohol finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Dec 2013
at 01:42