6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Clear amber color with a average fizzy fair lacing off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty and hoppy, caramel, toffee, fruit, licorice, medicine notes. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average duration. Body is light to medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat to soft.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Apr 2007
at 04:19
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Amber color with a small off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, fruit, toffee. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average duration. Body is light to medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Apr 2007
at 03:33
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Light ruby in its colour with a sweet caramel malt aroma, and a tasty fruity maltyness in flavour.
Tried
on 09 Apr 2007
at 14:01
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask@Akkurat, Stockholm. Honeyish golden colour, small white creamy head. Aroma is honey, wood and some caramel wood. A bit hayish too as it warms up. Flavour is dry hayish hops with wooden hints. Aftertaste is sour fruits and grass. Easy-to-drink and not too bad.
Tried
from Cask
on 20 Mar 2007
at 07:26
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at Akkurat, Stockholm. Amber colour. Sweaty, fruity, hay-like nose. Sweet and light bodied withsoft, chewy malt profile. Lightly saty, resiy finish. A very drinkable, uncomplicated bitter.
Tried
from Cask
on 11 Mar 2007
at 08:12
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
(Cask at Akkurat, Stockholm, 1 March 2007) Amber colour with frothy off-white head. Malty, slightly fruity nose with notes of dried apricots and dusty hops. Slightly closed. Fruity taste with apricots, orange and a lovely, hoppy finish with earthy hops, grapefruit and orange peel. Grows on you, slightly closed aroma, nice taste and mouthfeel with a great hoppy finish earning it some extra points. Great session bitter.
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Mar 2007
at 15:43
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Thin white head. Red body with carbonation. Dense sweetish malt and cinnamon aroma with notes of roastiness, and perhaps a touch of smoke. Nice dry roasty caramel aftertaste. Good, but could have been denser and had more taste. (0.5l bottle.)
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Feb 2007
at 13:53
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
50cl bottle from Waitrose. Reddish orange in colour with a thin ring of white head; intense fruity aroma with traces of cherry, peach and tangerine; full in the mouth with a rich caramel , malty, toasty flavour; lasting bitter fruity aftertaste - an excellent bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Jan 2007
at 13:38
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
500 ml brown bottle, courtesy of Cardinal pub, Stavanger. ABV is 5.8%. Reddish amber to brown colour, low off-white head. Minimal carbonation, nearly flat. Moderate but nice aroma of caramel, toffee, berries and dried fruits, with some oak in the background. Flavour has plenty of caramel, and a substantial bitterness in the finish and aftertaste, and a sweetish reminder of the relatively high ABV, but little else than that. Not an easy-drinking ale this one, and not particularly interesting either. Still better than many run-of-the-mill ales.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Dec 2006
at 17:57
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
500 ml bottle, courtesy of Cardinal pub, Stavanger. ABV is 4.3%. Pale golden colour (probably the palest British ale I’ve ever seen), slightly hazy. Moderate white head. Moderate fruity aroma. Flavour has some some citrussy notes and fairly decent hops, light bodied, dry bitter finish. In a blind test I might have guessed that this was a kölsch, or even a well-hopped pils. The lager malt used may explain that. An okay beer for a hot summer’s day, but I wouldn’t mind having some noticeable malts around, to balance the Fuggles hops. Additional notes, cask conditioned at The Three Judges, Glasgow: Pale golden colour, lagerish aroma and flavour, moderate hops. Even less impressive than from the bottle, so I keep the old rating.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Dec 2006
at 14:39