4.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4

Bottle at Bodega in Birmingham. Pours golden. Usual malt aroma with a little dung. Taste is malt but with a little sweetness in there which doesn’t add much. All a bit meh really.

6.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

From a bottle. Pours a clear cola brown with an ecru head. Aroma of caramel. Flavors of sweet toasted grains. Smooth finish.

2

Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 2

Yellow, thin head. Sort of a sour grain aroma. Taste is the same. Maybe the faintest touch of bitterness.

5.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

Pours a black from a bottle, something like a chocolate cola flavor and aroma. Kind of thin. Okay beer.

6

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle. Black with next to no head. Has some dark and slightly sweetened and slightly roasted malts in a very palatable easy-drinking texture that does feel central European in style.

2.6

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 2.5

Pale yellow, clear, airy white head. Aroma of dust and nothing else, carbonated, dryish, watery. Cheap dirty stuff.

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6.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Near black red-brown beer under a pale greige head, leaving lace. Thick, pure malty aroma, both sweet and roasted/burnt malts, raisins. Less sweet than the nose suggests, sweetish bread, Pumpernickel German black bread. Probably not very high final gravity, but it hands a really heavy impression out; slick to viscous. Definitely not bad, it is indeed true to the German Schwarz character. Proved better than expected, if nowhere the icon MJ used to make it.

6.2

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

330ml bottle. Pours deep brown with a thick, foamy tan head. Big initial fruit hit on the nose, taste is more bitter with a coffee finish. Ok but not great

7.1

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 8.5

Dandelion and pencil shavings aroma, surprisingly strong and pleasant. Clear golden, thin head. Strong dandelion flavor, subtle honey, grass finish. Light body, easy carbonation. Great intensity, but sessionable. Drinks like a well hopped English golden ale. Excellent!