Subsidiaries
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
50 cL can. Pours clear and golden orange with a dense creamy and tan head. Caramel and light butterish aroma. Smooth mouth feel. Acidic flavour with a light caramel toffee to roasted malt note. Light bitterness lurking through. Mellow creamy and light caramel flavoured finish.
Tried
from Can
on 17 Apr 2008
at 15:22
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
This is the first beer in our June 11th Old Ale Blind Tasting. It finished in a respectable 3rd place. Courtesy of fishingnet.
It pours brown with nice tan head. It has a pretty big aroma of dates minced in caramel. It seems pretty complex with some notes tough to discern. I get toffee, sweet dark grapes and fudge mixed with dark clay like mud. The taste seems thin to start things off. I get dates and grape jelly to go along with an earthiness and mild malt to caramel sweetness way in the back. I get just a hint of hop bitterness in the finish. Really dark fruity tasting beer.
Pours clear amber with tan head. The aroma is a perfumy combination of caramel candy, wood, malty sweetness and dark fruity esters. The taste begins smooth and malty then builds toward sweet dark fruity grape, cherry and plum ester notes. As the finish approaches wood and caramel notes surface and carry on into the after taste.
It pours brown with nice tan head. It has a pretty big aroma of dates minced in caramel. It seems pretty complex with some notes tough to discern. I get toffee, sweet dark grapes and fudge mixed with dark clay like mud. The taste seems thin to start things off. I get dates and grape jelly to go along with an earthiness and mild malt to caramel sweetness way in the back. I get just a hint of hop bitterness in the finish. Really dark fruity tasting beer.
Pours clear amber with tan head. The aroma is a perfumy combination of caramel candy, wood, malty sweetness and dark fruity esters. The taste begins smooth and malty then builds toward sweet dark fruity grape, cherry and plum ester notes. As the finish approaches wood and caramel notes surface and carry on into the after taste.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Apr 2008
at 08:19
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
JWD ... crisp clear amber ... quite hoppy ... very fruity ... light sweet malt ... but really nothing special
Tried
on 27 Mar 2008
at 15:01
4.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 2
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
[i] [b] Cask at The Penny Black JDW Bicester, Oxon, 23-03-08 [/i] [/b] Mid amber in colour, unusual aroma bit chloriney, smooth caramel and bit fruity not really my thing I’m afraid.
Tried
from Cask
on 25 Mar 2008
at 09:22
4.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4
500ml bottle from Morrisons. Amber clear colour with disappearing beige head. Lots of candy sugar on aroma with some faint hop. Bit of yeast. It’s a dullish bitter in the mouth with poor pasteurised flavours. Some yeast flavour. Very faint hop presence on end. Bit of toast.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Mar 2008
at 05:53
4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 4
Cask-conditioned at the Bag O’Nails, Bristol 18/3/08. I tired to approach this one with an open mind...honest. Amber coloured with a slight, off-white head. Aroma of sickly caramel and oily hops. The flavour was cloyingly sweet with a whiff of sulphur and a slightly metallic finish. Served in decent condition, so no excuses - poor!
Tried
from Cask
on 18 Mar 2008
at 15:24
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottle 0,75l bought at Tesco Kensington Feb. 08. Golden colored. A large creamy head settling in a couple of minutes - but never died. Strong sweet hoppy aroma. Soft mouthfeel. Subtle flavor of sweet fruits. Dry fruity aftertaste with some bitterness. KI=6
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Mar 2008
at 15:17
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Big offwhite head does not last, but clings well. Amber body. Light, malty nutty aroma. Deep malty nutty metallic harmonic taste with wooden caramelly notes and subdued fruitiness. Somewhat sweetish. Mid-bodied. Dry, almost tart, aftertaste. Good session beer. (0.5l bottle from Sainsbury’s, London.)
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Mar 2008
at 05:05
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 4
Overall 8
Bottle at home ... Deep Dark Red ... wood toffee and little tartness in nose ... Rich deep complex flavour ... blackcurrent ... raisins ... rum ... quite tasty but something is lacking in the body
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Feb 2008
at 11:56
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at the Dukes Head, Hythe, Kent. Copper with a thin white head; fruity aroma; full bodied and fruity with apple flavours; tart finish, dry and bready.
Tried
from Cask
on 19 Feb 2008
at 15:26