6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7
Cask handpull at Hoodeners Horse Great Chart. Not great condition but I do like the maltiness. Its pretty much a malty best bitter but with some fruit and a very good length. Half decent.
Tried
from Cask
on 30 Oct 2011
at 05:52
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Gravity cask at the Wandsworth Halloween Festival 2011. Pours dark brown with a foamy, light tan head. Subtle roasted malt aroma, some sugary chocolate. Flavor is very sweet, modest cocoa and roast, some toasted sugars, light caramel. Medium bodied with fine carbonation. Sweet finish, very faint vanilla, alcohol and bitterness, plenty of dark sugars, pretty fun to drink. (3.7)
Cask at The Windsor Castle Inn during the RateBeer Black Country Bus Bash. Pours clear, red-brown with a creamy beige head. Tangy dark malts on the nose, which don’t bode well. Light to medium sweet flavor with chocolate, tangy dark fruits and light dirt. Light bodied with fine, creamy carbonation. Further tangy dark malts on the finish, mild cocoa and dirt. Not awesome. (2.9)
Cask at The Windsor Castle Inn during the RateBeer Black Country Bus Bash. Pours clear, red-brown with a creamy beige head. Tangy dark malts on the nose, which don’t bode well. Light to medium sweet flavor with chocolate, tangy dark fruits and light dirt. Light bodied with fine, creamy carbonation. Further tangy dark malts on the finish, mild cocoa and dirt. Not awesome. (2.9)
Tried
from Cask
on 28 Oct 2011
at 11:01
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle from Sainsburys. Amber coloured with a slight, off-white head. light, bready malt aroma with some grassy hops. Sweetish, caramel and berry fruit flavour with a bitterish finish. Ok.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Oct 2011
at 07:35
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Dark blond colour. Some orange peel in the aroma. Flavour is bittersweet. There’s a tangerine-like orange sweetness. Texture is quite thick and oily.
Tried
on 11 Oct 2011
at 12:06
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle at home in London with Lyoli. Part of the Sainsburys World Series. Pours clear gold with a small, white foam head. Weak aroma, subtle doughy malts. Medium sweet flavor with a kind of odd character. Like honey and corn or something. Or perhaps the unholy marriage of mint and lemon? Light bodied with fine carbonation. Mild sweet finish, some bread, weird fruit, dough, faint crispy grass. OK.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Oct 2011
at 11:31
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Sainsburys. Amber pour with a white head. Ginger, caramel and butterscotch aroma. Vanilla, toffee, butterscotch and light citrus flavours. Not bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Sep 2011
at 12:17
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6
Bottle from Sainsbury’s. Clear golden colour, foamy off-white head. Nose is slightly malty, citrus, little fruits. Taste is ligth malted with a soft, creamy whey-like flavour. Bit of citrus. It really lacks a bite.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Sep 2011
at 08:36
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask @ GBBF 2011, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.Clear medium orange yellow colour with a small, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, white to off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, fruity, light to moderate hoppy, citrus, light grass. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20110802]
Tried
from Cask
on 10 Sep 2011
at 14:24
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
500ml bottle from the Sainsburys beer competition 2011. Clear mid gold with lasting thin beige head. Earthy blackcurrant aroma. Very earthy. I mean it’s a toffeeish earthy bitter. Fine, but yousers, aren’t we past this now? Anyway it’s a bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Sep 2011
at 12:59
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Cask at GBBF 2011, Day 2. Pours clear, rich gold with an off-white, foam head. Loads of pine, citrus rind and grass make up the aroma. Has a deep bitter flavor, medium sweet, light wood, caramel and toast, resiny pine. Medium in body with fine carbonation and beautiful condition. Warm, sticky hop finish. Excellent.
Tried
from Cask
on 08 Sep 2011
at 15:36