5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask handpull at Wenlock Arms. Chestnut beer with thick lasting off white head. Nich rich malts, some choc and toffee and good green hop aroma. Finish has more slightly acidic hop to blance the rich malts, but it doesn’t quite pull it off. Finish is too astringent on the back of the choc malts. You are expecting a warming dark malty bitter and then are hit with this hop astringency. Needs refinement
Tried
from Cask
on 29 Oct 2005
at 04:28
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
500ml bottle from Cheriton Tesco. Orange/gold colour with thin off white head. Spice, hop, citrus aromas. Hops are green and fresh. Bit of tangerine. OK in mouth with zingy hoppy finish with more tangerine/orange. Nice enough beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Oct 2005
at 16:32
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask (gravity dispense), St Albans Beer Festival 2005. Dark ruby colour with good spicey caramel and smooth in the mouth. Really quite like it, but not a lot of coriander, definite spicey edge with a bit of bacon?
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Oct 2005
at 08:10
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Handpull cask at County Hotel JDW Ashford. Light brown bitter with some hop and some caramel malt but a bit bland. Harmless enough
Tried
from Cask
on 04 Sep 2005
at 06:14
4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
Handpull cask at Humphrey Bean JDW Tonbridge, Kent. Dark brown bitter with goodish malt and hops but there was an underlying taste that I did not like
Tried
from Cask
on 04 Sep 2005
at 06:12
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
cask gravity at kent BF. Malty beer with petrol/ethanol aroma. malt flavour with some hop to balance but a bit sweet for me.
Tried
from Cask
on 24 Jul 2005
at 03:38
6.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
[Cask at GBBF 2004] An opaque brown beer with a fine brown head. The aroma is sweet with notes of caramel, while the flavor primarily is a sour (due to lack of alcohol) mil flavor with a roasted bitter end.
Tried
from Cask
on 15 Jul 2005
at 18:55
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask. Yellowish golden, not much head, but the head is foamy and longlasting. Citric aroma with hints of malt and a bit hops. Very smooth fruitish semi-bitter hoppy flavour. Also a bit soapish. A bit more carbonation would be nice.
Tried
from Cask
on 04 Apr 2005
at 11:04
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask. Dark brownish colour with brown bubbly head. Sweet licoracy aroma. Soft licorace flavour with hints of toffee and malt. Smooth palate. Aftertaste is a bit caramellish.
Tried
from Cask
on 04 Apr 2005
at 10:50
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Dark beer with a light aroma with a hint of coriander. The flavour is hopped with a quite weak finish. Overall a nice lightly hopped beer.
Tried
on 13 Feb 2005
at 09:40