Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
As Cottage Delight Elf Service:
Appearance: Yellow golden, clear. Tiny amount of white head.
Aroma: Slight fruit, yeast.
Taste: Some fruit, grains, yeast, slight bitterness.
Bought: Gift from Mrs, 500 ml, £?.??
Info: 10/7-2015, BB: 31/10-2015
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Cottage Delight A Fishermans Tail and Cottage Delight Snowmans Meltdown compared:
Appearance: Very dark brown, almost black. A Fishermans Tail pretty flat, but Snowmans Meltdown has nice tan head.
Aroma: Nice dark malt, roasted. Some dark chocolate.
Taste: Nice dark malt, slightly burnt. Some bitterness. Nice.
Bought: Gift, 500 ml x2, £?.?? x2
Info: 20/3-2015, FT BB: 28/2-2015, SM BB: 31/10-2015
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottle from the Beers of Europe Christmas Crate. Brown pour with a swiftly vanishing white head. Blackcurrant and licorice toffee aroma. Bit of a cough medicine feel. Very light carbonation. Needs more body.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle, 5.0%. Fruity aroma, even raisin? Clear golden colour. Good stable chalk white head. The flavour is fruity with a mild hop bitterness to balance. Low bitterness. Caramelly and not so flavourful.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Clear golden, white head. Malty, slightly grainy aroma. Sweetish flavour, malty, rather light mouthfeel.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottle @ Hoppy Advent Race in Space, Sønderborg. Pours clear golden with small white head. Clear aroma of hops and fruit, with notes of malt and citrus in the long nose. Bitter, hoppy flavour, with malty and bready notes and touches of fruit. Bitter and estery finish. nothing to write home about.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
500ml bottle from beers of Europe, shared with jeevan. Pours dark ruby brown, no head, looks like cola! Aromas of brown malt, light spice. Taste is chewy, more toffee maltiness. Sticky finish. Ok.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Third and final 500ml bottle from a gift pack that I found for £5:00 earlier this year at a garden centre. The bottle was opened just out of date on 15th Nov 2014 during my pre-Christmas Christmas beer tasting evening. Poured into an Abbot Ale badged glass tankard and shared with no one, deep dark brown, almost black, on top an uneven tanned foam blanket. Dark, semi-bitter malts rule the nose and initial taste, some vanilla and liquorice as it warms in the tankard. Starts off dry with the aforementioned bitterness, but it mellows as the vanilla and liquorice flavours begin the show themselves. Nice body feel and again a pleasant surprise overall, just like to two other beers in the cut price pack I bought.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
500ml bottle, part of a three beer gift set I bought during a sale at a garden centre: BBD end of Oct, drank on 15th Nov 15, just out of date. Poured at home at my Pre-Christmas Beer tasting night: shared with no one. very slight haze to the golden body, on top a blanket of even white foam. Fruity and fairly sweet nose, the taste also fruit laden and sweet, mild bitterness in the drying finish. A lot better than I expected to be honest. Nice little beer.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
500ml bottle from Webbs of Wychbold. Deep dark Amber colour. Aroma has spice, must be the Christmasness of the beer. Taste has, caramel, coffee and spices.