Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle 50 cl. Courtesy of bluebetty. Pours a clear dark reddish brown with a small light brown head. Sweet and indeed chocolatey roast in the nose. Medium body, again these pleasant chocolate notes, some slightly overripe dark fruits, a little tar and ashes. Subdued bitterness. Really nice. 080911
Davros (5303) reviewed Special Brew Chocolate Stout from Arctic Fox 15 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Pours black with a quickly fading small head.Nose shows lots of roasted malt with subtle dark chocolate, coffee and toasty notes.Flavours are less complex, with loads of roasted malt and bready/toasty characters.Feels a bit watery.A little too simple, not much complexity, mainly concentrates of plain roasty notes.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Had the first glass around 15C and it seemed a bit sweet and muddled, second glass was very enjoyable at 11C. Black with a tan head. Coffee, chocolate, treacle, dried fruits. Taste is again more coffee than chocolate with dark sugars, dried fruit (raisins, dates, prunes), vanilla, a little struggling grassy bitterness. A little smoke right at the end. Really rather Baltic porterish in its sweet and rich malt.
DreamAudit (3935) reviewed English Ale from Arctic Fox 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
From a 330ml bottle on 19/2/2010. Has a yeasty, bready aroma. Flavour wise, there’s sweet malt, a little bit of fruit (peach), and some biscuit. The carbonation is quite high. Has a modest hop finish. A decent drop.
Davros (5303) reviewed Ice Cap Lager from Arctic Fox 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Pours golden amber with a huge head fed by lively streams of carbonation.Aroma is light, comprised mostly of spicy, grassy hops (presumably noble, lots of saaz perhaps?) with clean sweet malt in the background. The label just says "lager" but this is definitely Bohemian pilsner territory.Flavours include more grassy, spicy and lemon hops with sweet grainy malt taking over later and leading to a mild metallic bitterness.Nice light body, high carbonation.
DreamAudit (3935) reviewed American Pale Ale from Arctic Fox 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 8.5
From a 330ml bottle on 16/5/2010. Has a fantastic, powerful aroma - stonefruits, passionfruit and some peach. Tastes extremely big for a beer which is only 4.7%. Lots of different flavours are evident. Sweet, fruity and malty, with a long, very assertive hop kick, which is almost peppery. Would probably be even better it the finish was just a touch more subdued. However, this is an excellent APA.
hawthorne00 (9917) reviewed American Pale Ale from Arctic Fox 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle, 13C. Pours copper with a modest beige head. High bead. Aroma is full of American hops: grapefruit, pine and a little resin. Taste has some light caramel and stone fruit sweetness underneath tasty but short-lived bitterness. Body is a little on the thin side. There’s nothing terribly complicated here and that’s not a bad thing: this is a highly drinkable beer with a good smack of fresh aromatic hops.
Davros (5303) reviewed American Pale Ale from Arctic Fox 15 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Pours dark coppery amber with a large, lasting creamy head.Aroma shows masses of lychee, kumquat, pine, passionfruit, resin, orange marmalade, fruity confectionery, pineapple, etc, etc. Sweet clean malt is not forgotten; seems to be a nice load of crystal in there.A fair bit of the fruit transfers through as flavours, along with the sweet clean malt. Finish is quite aggressive (and astringent) with a somewhat harsh bitterness.Carbonation is a little too high, body slightly light.The sharp, harsh finish really drags this beer down, that aroma was a stunner though.
hawthorne00 (9917) reviewed English Ale from Arctic Fox 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Amber, coating white head. Medium bead. Nose has fruity malt and some floral hops - a bit orange orchard-like. Thin body with some fruit and nutty malt and fair bit of citrus. Balance improves as it warms to close to room temperature. Rather over-carbonated (again, it improves as it sits). Finish is nice and minerally. After their lager I was expecting a bit more from this.
hawthorne00 (9917) reviewed Ice Cap Lager from Arctic Fox 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle. Slightly hazy gold, white head. Very high bead. Nose has cereal malt, meadows, citrus and nectarines. Quite thick malt for the style with some citric bitterness - but rather less than suggested by the nose. Short, slightly sour dry finish. I suppose this an attempt to make an unmistakably identifiable Australia lager that’s not crap - and it’s very successful.