John Martin
Commissioner
in
Genval,
Walloon Brabant,
Belgium 🇧🇪
Associated Venue: Ferme de Mont-Saint-Jean / L'Orangerie du Prince
Established in 1909
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Description
One hundred years ago, settling in Belgium in 1909, the famous British master brewer John Martin said: ''only connoisseurs can appreciate beers like mine''.
For a century now, three generations of "The Finest Drinks Company” have offered a fabulous voyage into the world of truly amazing drinks. Today, every second, day and night, two of our finest beers are savoured by lovers of finest Ales somewhere in the world! Thanks to a unique blend of English tradition, Belgian savoir-faire and a hint of daring, our special beers are treasures that we just want you to discover!
For a century now, three generations of "The Finest Drinks Company” have offered a fabulous voyage into the world of truly amazing drinks. Today, every second, day and night, two of our finest beers are savoured by lovers of finest Ales somewhere in the world! Thanks to a unique blend of English tradition, Belgian savoir-faire and a hint of daring, our special beers are treasures that we just want you to discover!
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Golden color. The aroma is too weak. The flavor is also not special, but drinkable; medium thick body, not oily, strong bitterness, the alcohol warms a lot in the end.
They didn’t need to put such a simple drinkable Strong Lager in a fancy 75cl bottle like that.
They didn’t need to put such a simple drinkable Strong Lager in a fancy 75cl bottle like that.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Dec 2006
at 02:32
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
(Bottle 33 cl) Clear, deep golden with a creamy, white head leaving the prettiest laces. Lightly sweet malt aroma. Nice, full body with sweet, fruity notes and quite some alcohol showing in the finish. Very subdued bitterness that only just balances the sweetness. 271106
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Dec 2006
at 13:29
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
A golden ale with a thick creamy white head. An aroma of apples, alcohol, and light malt. In mouth, a light bubble gum malt, with light coriander and sweet malt, with some warming alcohol, and light pepperyness. Medium bodied, but cloying. Can from Bieropholie import. The rest of the can went for a glaze for a chicken dish.
Tried
from Can
on 28 Oct 2006
at 17:53
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draught at John Martin’s Pub, Trieste, Italy. Golden/amber coloured, medium pale brown head, slight acidic nose. Very hoppy and fruity aroma with slight herbal notes. Pleasant moderate bitterness at the end.
Tried
on 26 Oct 2006
at 06:48
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Draught at John Martin’s Pub, Trieste, Italy. Clear golden, medium white head. Sweet malty, pleasant hoppy and alcoholic aroma. Warming alcohol finish but overall very enjoyable beer.
Tried
on 26 Oct 2006
at 06:35
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draught at John Martin’s Pub, Trieste, Italy. Golden coloured, small white head. Malty and nice hoppy aroma with notes of fruit and some odd wood hints. Easy drinkable and very refreshing brew.
Tried
on 26 Oct 2006
at 06:17
3.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 4
[can] Golden color. Large head, doesn’t last long though. Sweet marzipan aroma. Very sweet flavour. Too much alcohol.
Tried
from Can
on 16 Oct 2006
at 11:29
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Canned. Golden colour, big fluffy head, which vanishes almost completely. Aroma is hops, malt and alcohol. Classic malt liquor aroma. Flavour is rather malty. Some very weak hints of hops is there. The maltyness drowns everything else, not even alcohol comes through that well.
Tried
from Can
on 14 Oct 2006
at 12:28
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle at Zuideterras, Antwerp, Belgium. I had this and Loz had Rodenbach unfortunately I hadn’t had an awful lot of this before Loz decided that her beer wasn’t for her and nicked my one. Poured a light brown colour with a decent head fruit, hops and malts dominate the aroma, taste is a little more of the same with some bitter sweetness thrown in for good measure.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Oct 2006
at 02:13
2.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 2
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 1.5
Bottled. Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is rum. Rum and plum in flavour along with some hops. Quite interesting "Pale lager" which only reminds of Rum. Though, I am not a big rum fan... and this beer reminded me why...
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Oct 2006
at 12:32