oh6gdx (51139) reviewed Old Peculier (Cask) from Theakston 18 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Cask@GBBF2007. Deep amber colour, mediumsized beige head. Aroma is caramel, licorace and honey. Flavour is the same along with some wooden hints. Also alcohol (or something) shows as a small burning note.
Beertalk (16424) reviewed Old Peculier (Cask) from Theakston 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Dark brown with a small off-white head. Toffee aroma with a hint of rubber. Sweet and slightly roast flavour that could do with some bitterness. 2.8
2013 on Christian Firtal. Toffee and dried fruit aroma. Sweet fruity and malty flavour.
fonefan (84534) reviewed XB (Cask) from Theakston 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Cask (handpump) @ Ring O’Bells, WA1, Warrington. Clear amber color with a small fizzy fair lacing mostly diminishing off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, light yeasty, fruity, toffee. Flavor is moderate sweet and light bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is creamy, carbonation is flat.
Fin (18365) reviewed XB (Bottle) from Theakston 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle, poured mid brown in colour with med white head. Some hops on the aroma, tasted little bit fruity but a touch on the thin side, some caramel flavours finish things off for what is a rather ordinary beer.
Fin (18365) reviewed Paradise Ale (Bottle) from Theakston 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
[i] Bottle from Waitrose, Thame, Oxon, 27-07-07 [/i] Poured amber in colour with white head, I drank half of this before I even realised that I had barely taken any notice of it. A fairly standard bitter but very boring and with little to make it stand out.
cagarvie (40076) reviewed XB (Bottle) from Theakston 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
Ruby coloured ale, sweet malt nose, light malty fruit bitter. nice but not special.
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Old Peculier (Cask) from Theakston 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Cask half-pint at NERAX on 5/4/07
Finally here it is in front of me. This was the first beer that I rated on RB and a beer that basically got me in to good beer (the bottled version). So 5 years later, with the unpasteurized, unfiltered version, it’s quite a milestone for me.
And to top things off, this one was one hell of a challenge to rate. As if old ale isnt already an obscure/vague enough style, this stuff didnt really strike me as the archetypal old ale. Not quite bright either, with still some light haziness, it’s hard to tell with these extremely dark beers what flavors/aromas are intended. Definitely it had lots of vinousness and cola notes. More roasted flavors than I would expect from an old ale, with sweet caramel and chocolate malts backed by soft pale malts. Fairly strong attenuation, definitely not too sweet nor did I have any trouble drinking it. A lot of strange flavors going on though, with some leafiness, mustiness and earthiness in particular. Cherry-vanilla notes seem the most enjoyable, and the carbonation was rather tight, giving it a zesty texture as it slides down. Strange beer and quite different from the bottled version.
berkshirejohn (10223) reviewed Paradise Ale (Bottle) from Theakston 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
500ml bottle from Waitrose, Bracknell. A bright amber colour with a creamy white head; semmed heavily carbonated when first poured but soon settled. Aroma of malt and perhaps a hint of apple; very light and fruity, without being watery. Moderately bitter finish. Pleasant, but unexceptional.
pivnizub (12821) reviewed XB (Bottle) from Theakston 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Bottle: Copper coloured, smaller, firm, lasting and lacing off-white head; spicy hops in the fruity-malty, slightly caramelly nose; light to moderate sweet-bitter flavour, light bodied, but not watery; drier malty-bitter finish. Nothing wrong with this, but lacks a bit complexity.........
Ungstrup (52110) reviewed XB (Cask) from Theakston 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Cask at GBBF 2006. A hazy orange-brown beer with a thick dense yellow head. The aroma is sweet malty with notes of berries. The flavor is sweet malty with notes of honey, leading to a dry end with notes of berries. A bit boring.