6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at The Lyric. It pours clear deep ruby-brown with a decent beige head. The nose is wood, roasted malt, earth, light caramel, coffee grounds and varnish. The taste is smooth, light bitterness, toasty malts, earthy roast, wood, leather, coffee grounds, nut, wet leaves and pepper with a dry finish. Light-medium body and soft carbonation. A good example of a mild. Decent.
Tried
from Cask
on 19 Mar 2015
at 12:27
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Keg at the Lyric - London. Pours hazy yellow-gold with a creamy white head. Pleasant citrusy hops on the nose, underscored by biscuity pale malts, flowers and hay. Light to medium sweet flavor with some further floral hops, biscuits, slight ripe lemon, tangerine. Medium bodied with average carbonation. Balanced finish with sime pale malt structure, hay, rindy and pithy curry, faint gassy bitterness. Not spectacular but pretty decent.
Tried
on 28 Feb 2015
at 13:40
7.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask at The Bell, Waltham St Lawrence. A deep cherry colour, almost black, with a loose cream head; berry fruit aroma (I didn’t spot the mandarins); and a pleasantly sharp woody bitterness in the mouth with some smokiness, but rather thin; then finishing with a lasting bitterness and a touch of licorice.
Tried
from Cask
on 10 Feb 2015
at 17:35
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at cloisters. Pours clear amber, nose is sweet toffee, taste is dry, bitter, floral, toffee.
Tried
from Cask
on 04 Feb 2015
at 13:39
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at cloisters bar., copper.. Thin tan lacing... Soft toffee fruit nose... Dry bitter herbal woody malts... Dry fruits.. Long bitter
Tried
from Cask
on 04 Feb 2015
at 13:00
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Draft at the Great British Beer Festival 2014, Day 3 - London. Pours clear, rich gold with a lasting off-white froth head. Quite grainy, with faint plastic, some hay. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Finishes with a bit of citrus, grass, light astringent plastic. Meh.
Tried
from Draft
on 01 Feb 2015
at 15:12
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask at cloisters... Golden pale yellow... Small white head... Soft sweet fruits.. Juicy fruits nose... Light floral lemon fruits...
Tried
from Cask
on 09 Jan 2015
at 09:52
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
From cask. Pours clear and golden orange with a small white head. Aroma is mild fruity, slight toasted malty. Mild citrusy, teaish. Bitter, citrusy and peachy. Lingering fruity and light bitter finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 27 Dec 2014
at 15:11
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask, handpump at The Grapes, Oxford in company of Grace after works Christmas meal, Thursday 18th December 2014. Not sure what differentiates this from the standard Blizzard other than the Christmas Pudding Ale addition to the name and this being on Cask, perhaps this has a subtle addition of spice? This pours a dark amber colour with a little smattering of bubbles, almost oily consistency. Soft in mouth, but this is a hefty DIPA. Some citrus but more subdued on that front than the standard Blizzard. Quite thick in mouth, it goes down far too easy for its strength, very good. A6 A4 T8 P4 Ov14 3.6
Tried
from Cask
on 21 Dec 2014
at 00:42
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Keg at The Grapes, Oxford, Saturday 13th December 2014. Decent wheat/IPA hybrid. Pours hazy gold/irange with sticky white head. A little scented, this scented floralness shows in mouth. A touch harsh at the back end, finishes dry. Citrus, clean a bit thinner than I would lije but Loz really likes this. A6 A4 T7 P4 Ov13 3.4
Tried
on 13 Dec 2014
at 07:51