6.8/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft at Beerheadz Lincoln. Jet black colour with a tan head. Aroma and taste are malty and creamy some coffee. Slightly thin finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 21 Nov 2024
at 18:32
6.9/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
22/11/2024. Cask at The Dove Street Inn Winter Beer Festival, Ipswich. Pours clear golden with a small bubbly white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, floral, hoppy, hedgerow, grassy herbal notes. Medium sweetness, moderate bitterness and body. Soft carbonation. Nice.
Tried
from Cask
on 17 Nov 2024
at 21:05
7.6/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
22/11/2024. Keg at The Dove Street Inn Winter Beer Festival, Ipswich. Pours black with a lasting creamy beige head. Good pour. Aroma is ashy, coffee, chocolate, roasted malt, dark fruits, citrus, resin edge. Moderate sweetness, medium roasted bitterness. Medium body, average carbonation. BIPA elements. Well done.
Tried
on 17 Nov 2024
at 21:04
6.2/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at Pavement Vaults, York. Gluten Free. Amber colour, thin white foam head and aroma of malt, caramel, toffee. Taste is malty, roasty, grains, biscuit, with earthy hop bitterness. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, drying biscuity bitter finish. Quite drinkable
Tried
from Cask
on 19 Sep 2024
at 13:58
8/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
16th August 2024
3 pints on keg at the Gidea Park Tap Room. Near clear gold beer, tidy pale cream colour head. Smooth palate with good fine minerally carbonation bringing up the rear. Light smooth creamy sweet malts. Hops are a delight, soft cooling pine and a soft underlying hop skunk with the main show being a fairly broad spectrum of hoppy citrus and tropical fruits. Goes down very easy indeed. Packs a hoppy punch for a SIPA.
3 pints on keg at the Gidea Park Tap Room. Near clear gold beer, tidy pale cream colour head. Smooth palate with good fine minerally carbonation bringing up the rear. Light smooth creamy sweet malts. Hops are a delight, soft cooling pine and a soft underlying hop skunk with the main show being a fairly broad spectrum of hoppy citrus and tropical fruits. Goes down very easy indeed. Packs a hoppy punch for a SIPA.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Aug 2024
at 12:04
7.5/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Cask at Greyfriar, Reading. Pours near black with beige to tan foam. Aroma: roasted malts, Nutella, chocolate, caramel, biscuit, lactose, vanilla. Taste: moderate sweet & bitter. Smooth, well balanced. Medium body with soft carbonation. Decent.
Tried
from Cask
on 11 Aug 2024
at 20:48
6.8/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
25/7/2024. Cask at the 34th Ipswich Beer & Cider Festival. Pours clear golden amber with a small bubbly off-white head. Aroma is fruity, hoppy, floral, caramel, malt, grass. Medium sweetness, moderate bitterness and body. Oily, soft carbonation. Nice.
Tried
from Cask
on 05 Aug 2024
at 21:49
5.9/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask at Bay Hop, Colwyn Bay. Aroma has the trad boiled veg - plus chunky malts. Ampersand have nailed this! Clear copper gold. Thin foamy translucent white head soon thins out. Flava combines light-medium sour citrus with a caramel streak. Underlying malts. Light-medium bodied. Slick. Soft-fizzy carbonation. Long dry slightly astringent finish. If Ampersand were aiming to give a slight boost to a veg soup Golden Ale, they're done it.
Tried
from Cask
on 30 Jul 2024
at 19:53
6.8/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
17th July 2024
Cask at Chelmsfaasarhd Beer Fest. Near clear deep amber beer, good bubbly pale tan head. Light palate, mildly dry, reasonable fine carbonation. Unsurprisingly, the dark malts are slightly thin. Modest chocolate and very modest coffee. Some pleasing ripe fruits on the back end, touch of thin marmalade. Light and semi dry finish. Yeah, hard to complain about this 3.3% Mild. Does what it says on the tin.
Cask at Chelmsfaasarhd Beer Fest. Near clear deep amber beer, good bubbly pale tan head. Light palate, mildly dry, reasonable fine carbonation. Unsurprisingly, the dark malts are slightly thin. Modest chocolate and very modest coffee. Some pleasing ripe fruits on the back end, touch of thin marmalade. Light and semi dry finish. Yeah, hard to complain about this 3.3% Mild. Does what it says on the tin.
Tried
from Cask
on 17 Jul 2024
at 12:57
7/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask at Crewe Dog, Crewe. Pours a dark reddish-brown with minimal off-white head and some lacing. The aroma is dominated by malts, but there are also traces of dried fruit and blackberries. Malts again to the fore in the mouth, where it is sweet with flavours also of figs and raisins. Later on there are hints of cola and bread rolls too, leafing to a slightly fruity finish. This is decent – though not particularly exciting.
Tried
from Cask
on 07 Jul 2024
at 19:31