Finn (18241) reviewed Baz's Bonce Blower (BBB) from The Parish Brewery 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
NWAF 24 Jan 13. Smaksprøve påspandert av Charlotte & Jan. Thanks! Svart. 0 skum. Sherryaroma. Myk munnfølelse. Smaken er søte plommer & mandler. Alkoholen veldig godt kamuflert.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Cask (gravity) @ NWAF 2013, National Winter Ales Festival, The Venue, Sheridan Suite, Manchester, England.ABV: 12%. Clear dark black brown color with a small, virtually none head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, chocolate, coffee, dark berry - fruit, buzzy - alcohol. Flavor is heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, alcohol, dakr chocolate, dark roasted, heavy. Body is medium to medium to full, texture is oily, carbonation is flat, finish feel is light alcoholic. [20130124]
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 6.5
Thanks to fonefan og Charlotte for sharing a glass with Finn and me at NWAF ’13. Gravicask. Deep and oily content, rosewood coloured body. Rum, sherry and bread to the nose. Taste of burned sugar and dark berries, rather port-like. Long-lived, mid-sweet ending with warming alcohol. Full bodied. Perfect as the last beer before we left the festival on its second day (Manchester, 24.01.2013).
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Before BrewDog came along this was the strongest regular beer brewed in the UK (could still be, I don’t know what BrewDog actually brew on a regular basis): I had it at the brewery tap many years ago and never thought I’d see it again. However our paths crossed: it was available at a beer festival I attended on 17 Nov 2012, so I had a hand-pulled half pint as my night-cap before I left the fest. Dark brown and thick looking, with a poor excuse for a head on top. The aroma wasn’t as fruity (strawberries) as I remember from my first encounter with this powerful and exceedingly sweet brew. The nose on this half was all about sugar, roasted brown sugar (on toast) with red berries just about making an entrance behind the sugary wall. The taste is all brown sugars with those berries, again with some toast presence: small sips are the order of the day with this brew and each sip seemed to have more alcohol in it than the last one. If you don’t like syrupy sweet beers this isn’t for you, but I liked it and was really glad I’ve had a chance to have another after all these years.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle at home ... deep red brown ... powerfull licorice and brown suger nose ... overpowering licorice and blackcurrent ... with caramilsed sugers... over all just a bit too much .. ut i enjoyed it not the less
Fin (18516) reviewed Baz's Bonce Blower (BBB) from The Parish Brewery 16 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle from Bellingers, Jet Garage, Grove Nr Wantage, Oxon, consumed 31-07-09 This beer really takes me back down memory lane. About twenty years or so ago I was working with my dad tiling a large school swimming pool in Oakham. Most evenings we would take it in turns to drive so the other could have a few beers and one night we visited the Parish Brewery brewpub at Burrough on the Hill, Rutland. On this occasion it was my turn to consume and I did, happily ordering a Baz’s Bonce Blower. The barmaid merrily quipped that if I could drink 4 pints of this beer my next evenings drinking would be free , I wisely never took her up on this offer but remember that beer very well and I’m so chuffed to get the opportunity to try this again. Pours very dark brown but against the light there are some ruby glints, the head is light tan. The aroma is currant’s, raisins and sultana’s steeped in Christmas spirits there is also some sweet liqourice and dandelion and Burdock (Loz noticed this) There is also some pear drops, by-product of the alcohol. The notes that I picked up on the nose are very much present in the mouth along with some dark burnt sugar, dates and nice warmth from the alcohol. Very strong but surprisingly drinkable. A7 A4 F7 P4 Ov14 3.6
omhper (45152) reviewed Special Bitter (P.S.B.) from The Parish Brewery 18 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Cask at Peterborough Beer Fest. Dark amber. Papery nose. Medium sweet and light bodied. Really fruity with resiny bitter finish.
omhper (45152) reviewed Baz's Bonce Blower (BBB) from The Parish Brewery 18 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Cask at Peterborough Beer Fest. Dark reddish brown. Madeira and plum brandy up front. Syrupy sweetness are in form control, alcohol lures behind - much like a port in every way. Warming and powerful, but a bit rough.