6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Slightly hazy dark golden beer with a white lacing. Aroma of ripe stone fruits, apricot, oxidized malt. Taste of sweet ripe stone fruits, apricot, citrus, long bitter finish.
Tried
on 30 Jul 2024
at 07:04
6/10
Sweetish malty beginning. Grainy sweetish. Bitter with a grainy sweetish finish. Interesting sweetish bitterness, grainy. Interesting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jul 2024
at 22:54
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask, Queenโs Head Piccadilly. Amber, lasting off white head. Gentle bread, floral and caramel aroma. Supple slip from sweet and smooth to peppery, bitter and slightly funky. Complex but very drinkable.
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Jul 2024
at 19:57
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at The Cricketers Arms, Berwick. Unsure this should be a new rating given it is the old IPA with a new label, one that is more fitting and will probably give it a better score. Light, watery session ale that does the job before a cycle home. Reasonable caramel gold.
Tried
from Cask
on 21 Jun 2024
at 21:35
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at the John Harvey Tavern, Lewes, as the Armada Ale, Dry Hopped. Poured a clear dark amber colour with a round bubbly white head. The aroma is malt and yeast. The flavour is moderate to light sweet and bitter, with a smooth, rich, yeasty, caramel, malt, herbal, light woody hop bitter palate. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Cask
on 31 May 2024
at 20:44
6/10
Tried
on 07 May 2024
at 22:15
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
275ml bottle bought from the Offie, Leicester and drunk at home. Pours extremely dark brown, almost no head. Medicinal aroma, bitter cooking chocolate, yeast extract, raisins, balsamic vinegar. Sweet taste, some winey sourness. More bitter chocolate, salted caramel and liquorice on the finish. Oily body, zero carbonation. It's complex and perhaps I'm being unfair but I feel the vinegary/vinous notes don't gel with the rest of the beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Apr 2024
at 14:51
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Dark amber color with a mild floral and earthy aroma. Taste is moderately bitter with a slightly sweet malt undertone.
Tried
on 20 Apr 2024
at 15:59
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Half-pint, gravicask, shared with Finn at The International Brewing & Cider Festival 2024. Crystal clear amber body, filmy layer, clingy lacing. Caramel-fruity nose, inviting. Balanced taste character of apricot, bread, yeasty fruitiness, and caramel malts. Drying close, fine bodied. Like it. (Manchester, 23.03.2024).
Tried
from Cask
on 10 Apr 2024
at 08:25
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Half-pint, gravicask, shared with Finn at The International Brewing & Cider Festival 2024. Deep copper coloured body, low beige head, fair lacing. Inviting aromas with toasted malts with scent of caramel, lightly roasted. Fine balanced taste of caramel malts and dried fruits. Earthy malts to the ending, lightly roasted. Fine depth to it. Like it. (Manchester, 23.03.2024).
Tried
from Cask
on 10 Apr 2024
at 08:01