7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
LCRBM2. Amber colour with thin beige head. Caramel and hop aroma. Hops are pretty good on end. Tingly. Not bad. Good malt/hop balance throughout with a very good hoppy finish.
Tried
on 18 Sep 2006
at 15:32
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle, picked up at the Dodgy Deli’, Cowley Rd, Oxford, 15-09-06. Amber, with small white head, some malt on the aroma, good body and very tasty, really enjoyed this beer, some fruits and malt shine through but with a nice flourish of hops at the finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Sep 2006
at 01:35
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle, picked up by my dad from Cornwall. Like it’s stablemate ’Dreckly’ this pours a fairly standard brown colour but with a smaller off white frothy head. Some hops and malts in the aroma, bit dry, quite bitter and hoppy tasting again another beer from Ring O Bells that is absolutely fine but hardly exciting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Sep 2006
at 01:41
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle, picked up by my dad from Cornwall. Pours a fairly standard brown colour with a medium off white frothy head. Aroma of fruits and hops, taste is pleasantly malty with some bitterness at the end. Fine but nothing special.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Sep 2006
at 01:37
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Hazy amber-mossy beer with a small ring for a head. Very hoppy nose, nearly USA, and a bit of kiwi fruit. Dry, dry, dry. Cardboard flavours, but with dry hops, orange zeste, hop bales. Light to medium bodied quite slick. A surprisingly good Southern English interpretation of an American pale ale.
Tried
from Can
on 12 Sep 2006
at 00:37
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Bottle. The pour presented a spare, fizzy head atop a light orange, clear body. The aroma was mostly malts — grain, straw, cereal, celery with some slightly sweet notes. The flavor was only a little sweet with hints of grass and grain and mostly bitter in the finish. Moderate dryness. Medium body is somewhat oily. Uninteresting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Sep 2006
at 20:27
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
500ml bottle from Cask & Glass, Tonbridge. Golden with lasting white head. Yeast/ hop aroma. Yeast is a bit like Sheps, but the hop is quite floral. Fine in mouth. Hoppy dryness on end. Bit thin on flavour, no real fruit or malt. Some rose petal I guess on the end. Easy drinking session bitter with enough hops to keep you interested. Bit one dimensonal, but for a 3.5% beer, I thought it pretty good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Sep 2006
at 17:32
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
500ml bottle from Cask & Glass, Tonbridge. Attractive clear chestnut colour with lasting beige head. Malty aroma, bit of coffee. Malty in mouth with odd tasting herby hop finish. Choc herb hop on finish. Just a bit of lack of depth but the malt really is very tasty. I would rate it higher but I am not that fond of the hop profile.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Aug 2006
at 13:09
3.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 3
Bottle. Gold, lasting off white head. Slightly perfumed aroma. Not much in mouth. Finish disappears with just the faintest of hop flavour. Not awful, cos there isn’t enough flavour for it to be horrid, but just no real flavours.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jul 2006
at 07:34
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
33cl bottle from Cask & Glass. Gold with thin white head. Blast of citric lemon hop on aroma, a bit flat in mouth, but at least not pukey, before more aromatic lemon hops on end. Quite a good attempt. Plenty of flavour.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Jun 2006
at 04:09