7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Gravity dispense at Ascot Racecourse Beer Festival 2012 - 06/10/12. Dark mahogony brown with a thin tan head. Big pine nose allied to bitter grapefruit and hops. Hoppy piney taste with a little dark roast malt and chocolate in the background. Medium bodied with moderate carbonation leading to a dry finish. Another great black IPA from a British brewer!
Tried
on 07 Oct 2012
at 08:44
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 8
Cask @ OT. Pours clear golden with a frothy white head that leaves some thick lacing on the glass. Smell is slightly sweet and malty with bread, lemon zest, grass and orange zest. Taste is sweet and bitter with bread, lemony soap, lemon peal, orange zest, grass and elderflowers. Mouthfeel is slightly crisp, slightly watery, tiny astringent, slightly flat and light bodied. Finish is bitter and herbal with lemon peal, wood, elderflowers, grass and hints of bread.
Tried
from Cask
on 05 Oct 2012
at 03:30
7/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Cask @ Akkurat. Pours dark brown, almost black, with a very small head that doesn’t leave any trace worth mentioning on the glass. Smell is slightly sweet, fruity and malty with dark bread, toasted malts, peaches, pineapple, freshly cut grass, earl gray tea and hints of coffee. Taste is tiny sweet, tiny sour and bitter with roasted malts, tropical fruit juice, grapes, pine, grapefruit juice, wood, pine, soap and liquorice root. Mouthfeel is smooth, tiny watery, flat and light to medium bodied. Finish is bitter and fruity with roasted malts, tropical fruits, pine, dark bread, moist soil, wood, lemon zest and orange zest.
Tried
from Cask
on 04 Oct 2012
at 03:49
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at Akkurat, Stockholm. Clear mahogany colour. Aroma of menthe and licorice - Fishermans Friend! Dry and medium bodied with rounded mouthfeel. Licorice and salt, mid bitter finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 26 Sep 2012
at 09:07
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle from Jacks, Westholme Stores, Goring-on-Thames, Oxon, consumed at home, Sunday 23rd September 2012 Pours hazy gold with a slight orange glow, nice white head. There is a subtle smokiness, soft in mouth, very tangy with a undercurrent of sweetness. Not so smokey in mouth, the fruity tang hangs about, strength is very deceptive. Good. A6 A4 T7 P3 Ov13 3.3
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Sep 2012
at 21:47
5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottle Conditioned. A gusher. Light brown colour. Quite a strong carbonation. Flavour is impaired by the gas but a light malty flavour comes through. Slightly metallic aftertaste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Sep 2012
at 11:01
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7
(Cask at Oliver Twist, Stockholm, 9 Sep 2012) Golden colour with brief, white head. Malty, fruity nose with biscuits, a touch of elderflower and citric hops. Fruity, slightly malty taste with notes of citrus, elderflower, biscuity malt and a dry finish with a generous citric bitterness. Quite thin body, mainly dry. Nice, tasty and refreshing.
Tried
from Cask
on 18 Sep 2012
at 13:02
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
A beautiful sunny afternoon on Friday 7th September 2012 saw my father and I join in R.A.T.2012 (Rail Ale Trail part 2). Split between three bars along the Wolverhampton to Shrewsbury railway line: they had over 50 different beers to try: this was one of them. Half-pint, gravity fed in the fest tent behind ‘The Odfellows’ in Shifnal. Light amber, golden brown, you choose: a white head tried to sit on top, but failed to stay around too long. Not too sure how this became CAMRA Champion Beer a few years back as it wasn’t any better than other beers on the day I tried it. Nice blend of flavours with the hops foremost in the smell and taste stakes. Well balanced and a pleasant enough session beer but nothing to set it apart from the rest of the field.
Tried
on 17 Sep 2012
at 06:08
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
500ml Bottle - Amber with lively combination and a foamy head. Grapefruit, peach, ice tea, sultanas and spicy malt in the aroma. Crisp, hoppy and slightly sweet taste with a fair amount of bitterness and notes of grapefruit, pine, peach and sticky toffee pudding. Easy to drink.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Sep 2012
at 05:11
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Cask Gravity (Newport Ale House, Newport, Isle of Wight) - Black in colour. Liquorice, pine, grapefruit, roasted malt and plain chocolate in the aroma. Slightly soapy taste with salty liquorice, roasted malt and pine all standing out. Very nice.
Tried
from Cask
on 11 Sep 2012
at 14:16