6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask-conditioned at the Commercial Rooms (JDW), Bristol 09/05/10. Deep copper colour with a big, off-white head. Sweet, caramel and red fruit aroma. Flavours of earthy cereal malts, berry fruit and caramel, with a short bitter finish. Ok.
Tried
from Cask
on 10 May 2010
at 14:36
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Cask handpull at County Hotel, JDW, Ashford. Copper colour, lasting creamy head. Some fruit and some biscuit in the flavour. Some good toffee. I rather like this, a very decent premium bitter, very good in terms of toffee fruit and biscuit. Decent.
Tried
from Cask
on 08 Apr 2010
at 04:21
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask @ GBBF 2009. Pours a dark brown color with a small tan head. Has a roasted malty chocolate aroma with some hints of licorice and caramel. Roasted malty caramel flavor with some hints of chocolate and some weak hints of licorice. Has a roasted malty caramel finish with some bitter chocolate hints in the aftertaste.
Tried
from Cask
on 08 Jan 2010
at 23:54
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Cask at the Briar Rose (Wetherspoon) Birmingham, UK on 28th December 2009. Gold with a durable white head of foam. IPA-like hoppiness. Citric grapefruit and hempy hop in the main kick with astringent citric finish on a smoothish mouthfeel. Initial taste close to that of some American IPAs I have tasted last summer! Highly flavoursome for 4.4%
Tried
from Cask
on 30 Dec 2009
at 17:18
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle at Chriso’s Kook Tasting 09. Thanks to my colleague Jenny who brought this back from the pub in Stourbridge for me. Black, brown edges. Thin beige head. Decent stout. Very tasty. Really drinkable stout. Dry stout. Lovely UK stout aroma. Fullish in mouth, touch of vanilla, bit grainy on the malts, but good roast malt. Lovely.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Dec 2009
at 01:50
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Dark brown with a small off-white head. Aroma of fruit, chocolate and coffee with a possible hint of brett. Dry and thin chocolate dominated flavour
Tried
on 30 Nov 2009
at 13:54
6.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask @ GBBF 09, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.Clear medium brown color with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, caramel, licorice. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20090806]
Tried
from Cask
on 29 Nov 2009
at 07:06
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask at FFTMC Autumn Beer Festival, Oxford 27-09-09 Pours pale golden in colour with a thin white rim for a head. The nose is malty with some honey but there is just the merest hint of chemical (washing up liquid/detergent) I wonder if this glass was pulled out of a dishwasher before the rinse cycle?The taste is also honey, malt, sweetish, some hops and citrus show but again there is a faint taint of detergent in there which whilst not quite spoiling it takes this down a notch or two. A5 A4 F6 P3 Ov11 2.9
Tried
from Cask
on 28 Sep 2009
at 01:52
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Cask at GBBF 2009 ... Brown black ... light roast malt nose ... light blackcurrant ... roast malts ... little charcoal.
Tried
from Cask
on 20 Sep 2009
at 09:02
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask@GBBF 2009. Opaque black color, small beige head. Sticky aroma of tobacco ash and glue. Quite sweet: molasses, plums, some dark malts. Sticky flavor, not very plesant. Lingering toasted sweety aftertaste.
Tried
from Cask
on 16 Aug 2009
at 15:12