7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask@GBBF2009. Deep ambery colour, small brown head. Aroma is hops, roasted malts, some slight wooden notes as well as mild toffee. Flavour is sweet roasted malts, fruits, smoked wood and mild notes of peat.
Tried
from Cask
on 15 Aug 2009
at 02:26
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle that I picked up from Wye Valley garden centre, Bicester, Oxon, 19-04-09 and consumed the same day. Pours amber with a few isolated bubble’s, but this is really quite flat and lacking in much life. There are some real rustic earthy qualities about this beer, a tad malty, some gentle bitterness, its ok. A5 A2 F6 P3 Ov11 2.8
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Apr 2009
at 01:02
7.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle that I picked up from Wye Valley garden centre, Bicester, Oxon, 19-04-09 and consumed the same day. Pours a murky chesnut brown colour with what I presume was an off white head, I never saw it for long enough as it had all but disappeared by the time that I sat down with this. This is a bit of an ugly duckling, doesn’t start out great but is a real winner. Nice sweet dark unrefined sugar’s, some bitter cocoa and a little dark fruit, primarily fig’s and dates all combine to make this quite a hit in the taste department. The aroma, lest I forget, is also sweet and malty. Throughout there is a nice warming from the alcohol, its a lovely beer. A7 A2 F8 P4 Ov17 3.8 Had this again this time Cask at the Plough, Fish Street, Worcester, 27-06-09 Poured very dark brown with whiteish? head, tasty full of chocolate, quite roasty, dark fruits. It’s a good beer but surprisingly not a patch on the BCA that I had recently. I will leave my BCA score on here as I had that quite recently. A6 A4 F7 P4 Ov13 3.4
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Apr 2009
at 00:54
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask (handpump) @ Wellington, Birmingham, England B2.Clear medium yellow orange color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, light to light moderate hoppy, spicy - ala peppery notes. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Very easy to drink but nothing special a bit borring. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. (300708)
Tried
from Cask
on 06 Apr 2009
at 17:40
4.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 6
Cask handpull at The Market Porter. Paleish gold, thin beige head. Farty aroma. Quite ascetic on the lemon fruit. Fart/cardboard runs through it. Just not very nice. Good condition, some lemon on finish, but overall not very good and I left some of it.
Tried
from Cask
on 18 Mar 2009
at 18:17
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask conditioned at The Wellington, Birmingham 21/01/09. Gold in colour with a slight white head. Aroma of citrus hops with a hint of summer fruit. Flavour started sweetish, before some more fruit, grassy hops and a short bitter finish. Good.
Tried
from Cask
on 21 Jan 2009
at 17:53
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask at GBBF08. Hazy yellow colour. Small white head. The flavour is quite subtle, hay and weak citric notes. Medium bitterness.
Tried
from Cask
on 07 Sep 2008
at 07:09
3.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Cask@GBBF2008. Golden colour, not much head. Aroma is eggy, soapy and quite yeasty. Flavour is quite much the same. Not very pleasant. Eggy, wooden and mildly fruity aftertaste.
Tried
from Cask
on 21 Aug 2008
at 23:43
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Cask, Thomas Rigby’s Liverpool. Middling orange colour with a frothy dissipating white head. Sweetish, citrus aroma type affair. Mallty, biscuity flavour Bitter finish. Ok but a bit boring. Great name though wizzzz.
Tried
from Cask
on 16 Jul 2008
at 04:26
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Cask gravity at London Drinker BF 08. Gold, lasting bubbly white head. Bit of tea, some rather unattractive bleach. Bit of butter on aroma. Definite tea as well. Not entirely attractive.
Tried
from Cask
on 17 Mar 2008
at 08:55