6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Sample at the Mondiale 2005: Poured a medium brown color ale with medium head with limited retention. Aroma is quite sweet with some spicy notes and some nice malt. Taste is sweeter the expected with some honey. Body is average and carbonation is low. Average Scottish ale.
Tried
on 06 Jun 2005
at 11:58
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Characteristic Traquair aroma. Clear chestnut colour. Small head. Quite bitter flavour. A little watery (naturally) in comparison with other Traquairs.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jun 2005
at 07:41
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Malty aroma, slightly roasted. Chestnut colour, small head. Flavour is malty, sharpish. Aftertaste is also a bit sharp.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jun 2005
at 06:26
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. Dark brown with a nice beige head. Rich aroma of malt, vanilla, plums. Malt, licorice and a light fruit flavor. Slight peat and alcohol. Finishes medium dry.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 May 2005
at 22:31
9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
(Bottle 33 cl) Very dark, but not black - there’s a reddish tint in there somewhere. The head is pretty much non-exiisting and the level of carbonation is very low. Pleasant, spicy nose. Dry, malty and slightly bitter with some indefinable but very delicate spices in the aroma. Reminds me of some of the best Belgian trappists. And I just read, that a "Blair Ale" has been brewed in support of the Labour Party election campaign. Way to go - it worked.... 200405
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 May 2005
at 15:17
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Beautiful dark-red foxy beer; thick yellowish & creamy head, leaving fine shards of lace. Creamy nose, milk chocolate, aroma of Belgian truffles, unfortunately later mixed with a rather strange aroma of green peas/snert. New Cadbury’s flavour? Very malty with chocolate, ambrée and roasted malts. Slightly sweet with bitterish-burnt edge. Faintly smoked, lots of liquorice (to the extend I would think it is in there for real). Medium bodied, velvety MF, rather dry. Decent brew, very much in line with the Traquair House style: always very well brewed, warming, but never blow-one-away.
Tried
on 17 Mar 2005
at 14:01
9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 9
Rerate, 330 ml cellared bottle, will soon be available at Cardinal Pub & Bar, Stavanger. Still an excellent beer, I get some differences in aroma and flavour: "old sherry" notes in the aroma are stronger I don’t get any notes of sour cherries this time. The flavour is less roasty (don’t get any coffee) and more sherrylike. Original rating: 330 ml bottle, bought at Selfridge’s, London. Beautiful brown to ruby colour, good beige head. Complex aroma of oak and sandalwood, some pine too, old sherry, leather, pipe tobacco, sour cherries, prunes, hints of smoke . Flavour is woody with a pronounced roastiness, coffee notes, strong tea, hints of bitter chocolate, excellent hoppy bitterness. A truly delightful beer!
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Mar 2005
at 14:18
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottled. Nut brown, brief head. Dominated by it’s rich, sweet, soft, toffeish warming malt character, justlike the House Ale. It does not really have the richness and the complexity of the House Ale. Some licorice in a velvetty finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Mar 2005
at 07:49
6.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
A red-brown beer with a nice light brown head. The aroma is sweet malty and the flavor is extremely sweet with notes of spices and lemongrass.
Tried
on 12 Feb 2005
at 04:03
4.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 2
Overall 5
An ugly looking beer,brown with no head or fizz.Molasses alcohol nose. Flavor of toffee,molasses,malt and alcohol..basically flat. Not a good effort
Tried
on 30 Jan 2005
at 13:58