5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 5
Overall 5
Tried
from Can
on 29 Mar 2025
at 16:48
4/10
Tried
from Can
on 29 Mar 2025
at 16:47
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at home. A proper ESB! And it was lovely, with deep and rich malt and bitter hops. This is proper English and I love it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Mar 2025
at 19:07
7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Pint in my village local. A true English bitter with well balanced bitter hops and malt and all with a sensible abv.
Tried
from Cask
on 24 Mar 2025
at 12:54
6/10
Magus, linnaseline, karamelline, mõrkjas. Ok.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Mar 2025
at 21:26
6.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Clear chestnut brown. Light sweet, toasted brown bread. Little earth, nip of cocoa, berries. Drinks ok, very basic.
Tried
from Cask
at
Hamilton Hall (JDW)
on 20 Mar 2025
at 18:30
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 8
Darker brown. Aroma is caramel, chocolate, fig, plum, light cinnamon, light cake. Taste is sweet rich with medium bitterness. Super rich and low carbonation. Good stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Mar 2025
at 22:33
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at the Standing Order. Pours dark brown with a thin beige head. Aromas of light chocolate and dark fruit. Taste is light roast. Fruity finish. A bit thin.
Tried
on 11 Mar 2025
at 14:06
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask at Standing Order, Derby. Pours a dark (almost very dark) reddish brown with a small tan head and good lacing. There’s roasted malts and dark fruits in the aroma plus some plumy hints. In the mouth it is slightly sweet with a creamy texture. Flavour has dark fruits, roasted malts, coffee and traces of cocoa wit some liquorice coming through later leading to a fruity finish. This is decent, but is a bit thin.
Tried
from Cask
at
Standing Order (JDW)
on 11 Mar 2025
at 00:00
6.9/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
This is the one of two ales by name previously tried before the Wetherspoon Spring Beer Festival 2025, so not exactly a new rate, but a variation tick. Very nice in cask form. Easy, light roasted, hint of nuttiness in aroma.
Tried
from Cask
at
Lord Rosebery (JDW)
on 10 Mar 2025
at 16:24