7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
An almost black beer with a medium and beige head. The aroma is roasted, coffee, nice sweetness, hint of smoke, chocolate and and turf. The smooth taste is not so roasted as could be expected. Taste has coffee, liquirice, hint of smoke, some berry like sweetness. Medium-bodied and oily palate makes this pleasant to drink. Pleasant and easy to drink, just to enjoy.
Tried
on 06 Oct 2007
at 13:34
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
50 cL bottle, thanks to faroeviking. Pours pale yellow with a lacing white head. Fruity and lemon aroma. Flavour is dry bitter with a clean lemon twist. Ends slight soapy and fruity lemonish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Oct 2007
at 01:20
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
500ml bottle from Sainsbury. Very deep chestnut colour with thick lasting beige head. Quite a good malty hop aroma, nice grainyness in mouth and then peppery hop towards the end. Dry malt throughout. Hey, I liked it. Hop on end was good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Sep 2007
at 05:21
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
500ml bottle from Sainsburys. Reddish chestnut with a cream head; berry fruit aroma; good body with a syrupy fruitiness, and a toasty bitter finish; a definite hint of blackcurrant - my favourite berry - makes this an excellent beer in my opinion.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Sep 2007
at 18:17
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
[i] Bottle from Sainsbury’s, Heyford Hill, Oxford, 21-09-07 [/i] This was a much much better beer than the Gales ’Swing Low’ rugby themed one I’d started the evening with. Poured standard brown colour, some fruit on the nose (but I didn’t get blackcurrants) tasted fruity and malty with real nice hoppy bite at the end which took me quite by suprise, not sure what the hops were but they certainly lashed out. Not bad at all!
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Sep 2007
at 14:06
7.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
12 oz bottle from mgumby10; nose of coffee, chocolate, and caramel malts, more like a stout, no fruitiness, toffee, or molasses notes; opaque black, brown edges, and a good sized cinnamon tan head; flavor has some chocolate, woody, and coffee notes, but also some dark fruitiness and light toffee and hop bitterness. Actually very good!
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Sep 2007
at 13:09
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
bottle - Pours black with a thin tan head. It smells mostly of roast malt plus a little coffee. The flavor is roasted malt with some chocolate and mild hops. Medium bodied and light on the carbonation, it goes down easy. I’m a little surprised this rates higher than the bourbon barrel version as I prefer that one.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Sep 2007
at 21:31
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
(Cask at Holly Bush, Hampstead, London, 6 Aug 2007) Copper colour with frothy off-white head. Fruity, hoppy nose with citrus and fresh, slightly rubbery hops. Fruity, malty taste with dark fruit, solid malt foundation and a bitter finish with generous amounts of earthy hops. Fairly dry, with some malt sweeetness. Very fresh and in perfect condition. Quite brilliant actually.
Tried
from Cask
on 07 Sep 2007
at 14:32
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask @ GBBF 2007, London. Clear medium yellow color with a small, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, white head. Aroma is moderate hoppy, fruittree flower, fruit. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average duration. Body is medium to light, texture is watery, carbonation is flat.
Tried
from Cask
on 05 Sep 2007
at 03:33
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at Guildford Arms, Edinburgh ... Golden yellow ...grapefruit hop nose ... mellow light fruiy and lighy hop .
Tried
from Cask
on 02 Sep 2007
at 07:35