Svesse (15730) reviewed 1872 Porter from Elland Brewery 19 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
(Cask at GBBF, London, 2 Aug) Colour is pitch black with pale brown foamy head. Nose is roasted with heavy aromas of freshly ground coffee, espresso, dark chocolate, soy sauce and tar. Taste is raosted, malty with full flavours of strong, black coffee, some chocolate, tar and liquorice. Full body. The bitterness comes through in the finish when the other flavours give way for a lovely hop character, and it is very bitter (probably with som help from the roasted malt). Complex! Absolutely lovely. In my opinoin, the best beer at the GBBF this year.
Fin (18365) reviewed Bargee from Elland Brewery 19 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Cask conditioned at GBBF Sat August 5th 2006. The beers were by now running out fast but this one had just come on. Bargee poured an amber coloured beer, with a citrusy, hoppy aroma. Taste was of a very fruity beer with plenty of flavour some citrusyness as well, not bad at all but considering the high marks that I have given my three previous E&S beers this one has blotted the copy book a little, not really in the same league as the KSA, July Morning or 1872 Porter.
Ungstrup (52110) reviewed E&S Elland Slightly Foxed from Elland Brewery 19 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
[Cask at Volunteer’s Arms, GBBF 2006] A hazy light yellow beer with a thin white head. The aroma is sweet grassy and hoppy, and the flavor is sweet malty with a crisp hoppyness, leading to a dry bitter end. Nice refreshing bitter.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
(Bottle 33 cl) Pours black and opaque with a small, off-white head. Aroma of both malts, fruits and alcohol. Very full-bodied with burned, malty accents. Notes of dried fruits - raisins in particular. Malty bitter finish. 240706
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
An unclear dark brown beer with a disappearing brown head. The aroma is sweet malty with lots of fruit acompaniet by alcohol. The flavor is sweet malty againg with strong fruit notes, combined with lighter notes of roasted almost burnt malt, as well as hints of wood. The body is thick.
Fin (18365) reviewed 1872 Porter from Elland Brewery 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9.5
Cask conditioned at Merton Beer Festival Fri July 7th 2006. Very dark beer in fact black with barely a head but what there was appeared beigeish in colour. Roasted coffee bean aroma with a hint of bitter chocolate, flavours are much the same as well but this really is the Geoff Capes of the Porter world and takes no prisoners. Great bitterness follows and malty flavours sneak through every so often, along with their July Morning this was a storming beer from Eastwood and Sanders.
Fin (18365) reviewed Eastwood & Sanders July Morning from Elland Brewery 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Cask conditioned at Merton Beer Festival Sat July 8th 2006. As I walked out this midsummer morning strolling unhurriedly across this pleasant, though unremarkable, Oxfordshire field with the pleasant liquid warbling of the skylark for company, interrupted only by the resonating harsh call of a startled pheasant and the low continual drone of the busying motorway. I had but one mission in mind to find a beer worthy of this day. The locals gathered and spoke excitedly about the merits of this beer and that cider but only one beer captured my gaze: July Morning. Poured to perfection it sat before me, it’s dark golden appearance only disturbed by a strengthening shard of light coursing in through a window and teasingly playing games across the surface of the beer leaving myriad pinpricks of light to briefly dazzle then wane. It was the hops that hit you first along with the slightly less noticeable hint of soft fruits. Then the gentle hum of chatter around me silenced for a second, as I was transported back to a simpler less chaotic England, devoid of motorcar and cellular phone. I was back in an England of high hedgerows, twisty roads and that glorious scent of an English summers day. The first sip and a pleasant fruitiness swept around my mouth then came a splendid bitterness and oh this beer really was quite something. The bitterness continuing to hold out and back came those images. I walked out of the hall, should I stroll with just my beer for company in some vain hope of trying to find that England of past decades? I shook my head resigned to the fact that it had gone, living only in ones memory. I took another sip and it was back this fruity hoppy beer was truly magical. But it was disappearing and fast and the clouds were beginning to gather on the horizon. The end was in sight but the bitterness lingered refusing to give. My glass now looked a sorry sight and like Mr Benn the thought of being transported elsewhere loomed again as I set eyes upon the wonderfully named Jaipur.
Harrisoni (26233) reviewed Bargee from Elland Brewery 19 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Cask gravity at Red Lion, Snargate. Copper colour with thin off white head. Hay, citrus bitter. Dusty hop. OK bitter, some juicy malt. Not keen on the dusty hop though.
Harrisoni (26233) reviewed First Light from Elland Brewery 19 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cask gravity at Red Lion, Snargate. Pale copper colour with thin white head. Nice light session bitter, some pale malt, quite juicy. Subtle hop on end. Juicy malt is good.
Harrisoni (26233) reviewed Beyond The Pale from Elland Brewery 19 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Cask gravity at Catford BF 06. Pale gold with lasting white head. Hot hop and astringent aroma. Bit of metallic tea even. Astringent hop finish. Too much hop really. Very dry finish.