Subsidiaries
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask handpull at Post Office Vaults, BHam. It pours clear golden with small white head. The aroma is bread, grainy, chewy, porridge, grassy, floral, straw, earthy and spice. The taste is dry, bitter, leather, tannin, floral, light spice, chewy, spice, tannin, black tea, wood, earth and spice with a dry, woody finish. Medium body and soft carbonation. Pretty decent stuff.
Tried
from Cask
on 20 May 2017
at 14:32
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask gravity at the Berko beer fest. A hazed golden orange coloured pour with a lasting thin white head. Aroma is nice tropical fruits, spicy, lychee, pineapple, papaya. Flavour is composed bready, dusty grains, spicy fruit. Nice fruity hop. Palate is grainy, good cask condition, gentle carbonation. Good.
Tried
from Cask
on 22 Apr 2017
at 07:49
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
On cask at the Stockbridge Tap. Appearance - golden with a decent head. Nose - grass, lemon and herbal. Taste - like it smells. Palate - light bodied with a creamy texture and a long dry finish. Overall - solid if unexciting. Doesn’t taste like it’s close to 6%.
Tried
from Cask
on 17 Apr 2017
at 15:42
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask at the Bootlegger, 17/03/17. Clear golden with a decent off white covering. Nose is sweet malts, citric tinged straw, soft bread, melon, tangerine. Taste comprises peach, cantaloupe melon, papaya, tangerine, toasted brioche, light spice. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, semi drying close tempered with juicy hop strokes. Decent cask IPA.
Tried
from Cask
on 13 Apr 2017
at 08:02
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at The Red Lion, Chalgrove, Oxfordshire. An orange/amber coloured pour with a medium white head on top. Hoppy, fruity, caramel aroma. Tastes fruity, caramel, slightly bitter.
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Apr 2017
at 12:57
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask, gravity at Brewery Club, Members Night,XT Brewery, Long Crendon, Bucks, Thursday 2nd March 2017. Hazy dark amber with a slim off white head. Quite fruity but with a good dash of overripe banana. Quite good one of the better beers this evening. A6 A4 T7 P3 Ov13 3.3
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Mar 2017
at 21:50
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask, gravity at Brewery Club, Members Night,XT Brewery, Long Crendon, Bucks, Thursday 2nd March 2017. Really hazy murky gold light amber, wow this is a woody beer, you probably would notice it so much if a darker beer. I don’t mind it, and in its defence it still has some of the original features. However the fruity elements have rather been beaten into submission by the oak ageing., which is a bit OTT, like sucking a beer soaked stick. . A6 A4 T5 P3 Ov11 2.9
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Mar 2017
at 21:43
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Cask at the Bootlegger, 03/03/17. Clear golden copper with a well appointed off White head. Nose is orange peel, toasted bread, light biscuit crumble, rhubarb, grassy, light floral notes. Taste comprises mellow citric rinds, caramel, straw, melon, cheesecake base. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, drying close with light bitterness. Decent.
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Mar 2017
at 12:04
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Cask, gravity at Brewery Club, Members Night,XT Brewery, Long Crendon, Bucks, Thursday 2nd March 2017. Pours murky brown with a creamy head. Sweet dark candi’ sugar comes off of the nose straight away and actually is present in the mouth. Fruity, tangy but also a little boozy though to be fair drinks easier than a 9.8% beer should. Some bitter liquorice, some boozy fumes come down the nose, kudo’s for XT for really pushing the boat out at the moment with some of these beers, and whilst this is quite good its not totally doing it for me. A6 A4 T6 P4 Ov12 3.2
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Mar 2017
at 07:25
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Keg at Brewery Club, Members Night,XT Brewery, Long Crendon, Bucks, Thursday 2nd March 2017. *Please note that this beer has now been re-branded as Snake Oil, however even in the brewery there are a lot of cans as above with the IPA details. Pours dark god with a white head. Initially I pick up a touch of toffee but then a citrussy element comes through, reasonably hoppy, good bitterness, dry finish, a little bit of bile on the nose (I get that with some beers, it must be one of the C hops that does this for me) Pretty good beer. A6 A4 T7 P3 Ov13 3.3
Tried
from Can
on 03 Mar 2017
at 07:13