Subsidiaries
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Chevy Chase Liquors and Spirits, DC 500ml can ($3): Pours an amber color with a creamy head. Aroma is fruity, with just a tinge of hops, and a bunch of malts. This beer is definitely on the maltier side of things. It has a fuller mouth feel than some other ESBs, I’ve had. Not too much in the way of bitterness, but a little bit of it is there. For the most part, this was a pretty well-balanced beer, but, as virtually every other rater has noted: this is nothing special.
Tried
from Can
on 06 May 2011
at 07:17
4.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 3.5
Bottle @ Home. Pours amber with lasting white head. Aroma of malt, some fruit. Taste is sweet malt, bread, fruit and nuts. Medium body, low carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Apr 2011
at 09:44
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
On tap in Drink Baar, Talin. Soft ale with malt and some caramel but a little watery. Drinkable but plain
Tried
from Draft
on 24 Apr 2011
at 08:47
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask at The Wharf. It pours a clear, amber colored body topped by a small, off-white head. The aroma is weak, nutty and bready with a slight sourness. Obviously not in top form. The flavor is nutty and with caramel, some hoppy bitterness too. Smooth on the palate, medium body. A rather boring one, but at least it goes down easily. 110417
Tried
from Cask
on 22 Apr 2011
at 11:16
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask @ The Wharf, Aalborg, Denmark
Pours clear amber with a white head. Aroma has notes of malt, bread, caramel and grassy hops. Taste is light to medium sweet and light to medium bitter with a dry finish. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
Pours clear amber with a white head. Aroma has notes of malt, bread, caramel and grassy hops. Taste is light to medium sweet and light to medium bitter with a dry finish. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
Tried
from Cask
on 18 Apr 2011
at 04:15
4.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 3.5
[Cask at Monk’s Retreat (JDW), Reading] Amber-brown with a cream soap-sud head. Toffee, farmyard sweepings and farts. Rather oily. Poor even by GK’s standards.
Tried
from Cask
on 13 Apr 2011
at 15:08
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Clear brown with a white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel and nutty. Flavor is medium sweet and light bitter, Light bitter and dry finish. 280710
Tried
on 10 Apr 2011
at 12:39
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Clear dark reddish brown with a beige head. Aroma is sweet, malty, dried fruit and vinious. Flavor is quite sweet and light bitter. Sweet finish. I’m not a fan of old ale, but this one is very nice for it’s style. 100411
Tried
on 10 Apr 2011
at 12:03
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottled@Kittys, Helsinki. Amber colour, mediumsized white head. Aroma is fruity and floral hops the British beautiful style along with some crispy and bready maltyness. Flavour is fruits, floral hops as well as sweet malts and some spices. Pleasant and balanced.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Apr 2011
at 04:31
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask (handpump) @ GBBF 2010, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.Clear medium amber color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, light caramel - nutty, light coffee. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20100804]
Tried
from Cask
on 06 Apr 2011
at 12:50