Subsidiaries
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle from Redh. Appearance - amber with decent off-white lacing. Nose - brown bread, toffee. A slight edge of citrus. Taste - toffee going into caramel. More bread. Palate - light to medium bodied, creamy texture. Only slight bitterness from hops on the finish. Overall - a bit sweet for the style. It's really a Bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 May 2021
at 10:49
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle from Redh. Appearance - deep amber with a white head. Nose - metallic, caramel and brown bread. Taste - toffee, caramel and ginger cake. Palate - medium.bodied and generally too sweet. Overall - tastes better than it smells but still a bit too sweet.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 May 2021
at 22:06
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from Redh. Appearance - dark brown to black with a cream to tan head. Nose - sweet toffee going into molasses. Malt loaf and dried fruit. Taste - general fruit cake thing going on. Dried orange and prunes, malt loaf and a little sweet spice. Molasses again. Palate - medium bodied, sweet middle with some dryness from the malt on the finish. Overall - lovely beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 May 2021
at 07:51
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottled 500ml (KSM Toppila, BB 10/2021)
Dark golden colour, small steady white head and lace. A bit bready, caramalty aroma, doesn't feel so fresh. Caramalt, even toffee, some riped fruits. Sweetish and boring bitter at least in its bottled version.
Dark golden colour, small steady white head and lace. A bit bready, caramalty aroma, doesn't feel so fresh. Caramalt, even toffee, some riped fruits. Sweetish and boring bitter at least in its bottled version.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Apr 2021
at 17:56
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottled 500ml (K-Supermarket Toppila)
Nut brown colour, small off-white head. Caramalt, toffeish, nutty aroma which is a bit bready. Light-bodied. Nutty and caramalty flavour. Light and sweet, meh.
Nut brown colour, small off-white head. Caramalt, toffeish, nutty aroma which is a bit bready. Light-bodied. Nutty and caramalty flavour. Light and sweet, meh.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Apr 2021
at 19:21
5.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Wetherspoon Autumn Beer Festival 2019. Cask @ Leeds Station Wetherspoon, Leeds. Deeper golden with a creamy head. It’s hopped but with a crispness and a light dryness, which dominates its character. There’s not too many flavours here though.
Tried
from Cask
on 24 Feb 2021
at 20:45
6/10
Banal, is what it says, but not in a special way, very malty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Feb 2021
at 20:39
5/10
Wasn’t expecting much from the abv
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jan 2021
at 17:28
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle from Bourne Valley Garden Centre. The Christmas beers Inwas after had all sold out so ended up picking up a new Surrey tick although I said to myself that I would not purchase Hogs Back beers after their SBR shithousery. Aroma is sweet and citrusy with a caramel streak. Underlying eggs. Copper gold. Thin bubbly translucent white head. Initial sweet burst white mirrors the aroma. This is soon followed by a medium bitter streak - both citrus and old school quinine. Underlying boiled veg. As I drink more the beer's positive aspects are pushed down by this veg and egg. Light-medium bodied. Slick. Fizzy carbonation. Long dry astringent finish. It's OK. Exactly what you'd expect when a twiggy bitter pusher revamps their golden Ale as a SIPA. Was decent until the eggy and boiled veg elements reared their heads.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Dec 2020
at 20:24
6.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
500ml bottle. Deep, dark red with s thin white head. Sweet roast malt aroma, flavour is broadly the fame with a hint of liquorice and maybe some winter spices. Decent
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Dec 2020
at 18:42