Subsidiaries
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
500ml bottle at 4.1%. Pours a dark ruby brown with a large head. Aroma is milk chocolate, roast malt and blackcurrant. Taste has mild roast to start, roast malt and berries on the finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 May 2011
at 13:12
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask from the Bitter End, Bromley. Reddish-brown pour. Berries, raisins, licorice and burnt caramel aromas. Raisins, plum jam flavours. Dark fruit malty action. Nice.
Tried
from Cask
on 24 Apr 2011
at 14:22
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
cask at standing order ... copper brown ... thin tan head ... soft toffee malt nose ... light bitter ... light woody chocolate ... some fruits ... bitter and musty
Tried
from Cask
on 22 Apr 2011
at 04:12
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
[Cask at Back of Beyond (JDW), Reading] Deep amber, moderate off-white head. Tastes of toffee with a bitter finish. OK, but dull.
Tried
from Cask
on 13 Apr 2011
at 16:12
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask at the Old Manor (JDW), Bracknell. Copper in colour with a loose beige head; woody aroma; thin body with some demerara sugar and caramel malts; the finish is dry with some toasted oats and underlying lightly bitter hops. Seems more of a brown ale style to me.
Tried
from Cask
on 08 Apr 2011
at 11:36
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask-conditioned at the Commercial Rooms (JDW), Bristol 5/04/2011. Clear reddish brown with a billowy off-white head. Sweetish aroma of caramel with some slightly toasty malts. Robust, cereal malt flavours, with some decent fruit and moderately bitter finish. Fine.
Tried
from Cask
on 07 Apr 2011
at 12:23
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
31st March 2011
Crosse Keys Spoons. Clear amber beer with a little white head. Clean lactose milky sweet malt. Nicely contrasting citrus orange hop provides balance. Not bad at all.
Crosse Keys Spoons. Clear amber beer with a little white head. Clean lactose milky sweet malt. Nicely contrasting citrus orange hop provides balance. Not bad at all.
Tried
on 02 Apr 2011
at 09:16
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask. Almost clear dark brown colour. Good stable creamy tan head. The flavour starts off with a nutty Brains character, turns mild, a bit dull. Rounds off with a little rough and citric note which suits it quite well.
Tried
from Cask
on 29 Mar 2011
at 14:30
5.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Half, cask at JDWs Willow Walk, Victoria. Patchy surface blanketing the glass. Clear copper coloured body. Resin-like hops to the nose followed by plenty of caramel malts in flavour and supported by dusty hops towards the end. Fresh and clean tasting. Accepted (London, 22.03.2011).
Tried
from Cask
on 29 Mar 2011
at 11:32
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Cask at the Crosse Keys, JDW. Clear, red-brown pour with no head. Weak nose, some faint roast and brown sugar. Nice flavor, lightly sweet, some toast, faint fruit and toffee, followed by herbal bitterness. Light to medium in body with fine carbonation. Light dry finish, bit of toasty malts, mild grass hops. Not bad, quite passable.
Tried
from Cask
on 25 Mar 2011
at 18:16