6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
20th June 2023
Hazy amber beer, small pale cream colour head. Smooth palate, decent fine carbonation. Soft malts, a little creamy sweetness. Fairly big caramel here and a touch of unsweet toffee. Marmalade and pine, overripe orange on the back end. Pretty much everything that drives me nuts about West Coast IPAs, and yet I can't quite hate this one. Maybe the Voss yeast rounds it out a bit.
Hazy amber beer, small pale cream colour head. Smooth palate, decent fine carbonation. Soft malts, a little creamy sweetness. Fairly big caramel here and a touch of unsweet toffee. Marmalade and pine, overripe orange on the back end. Pretty much everything that drives me nuts about West Coast IPAs, and yet I can't quite hate this one. Maybe the Voss yeast rounds it out a bit.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Oct 2023
at 19:48
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle ordered from Beautiful Beers, Bury St Edmunds. Aroma has dark rich chocolate with coffee and sharp coffee berries. Dark and glossy. Foamy beige head. Medium bitter. Coffee. Dark chocolate. Underlying nuts. Develops a tangy sour berry streak. Medium bodied. Creamy. Average-fizzy carbonation. Long astringent finish. A big Mild. Certainly verging on a Stout.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jun 2023
at 18:08
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Gravity cask at Cambridge CAMRA Beer Festival 2023. Pours light hazed amber ruby with a beige cap. Aroma: malt, biscuit, caramel, earthy, spicy hop. Light to moderate sweet & bitter. Medium body with soft carbonation. Good one.
Tried
from Cask
on 05 Jun 2023
at 20:30
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle ordered from Beautiful Beers, Bury St Edmunds. Aroma is earthy, grainy... followed by sweet fruit. Murky opaque toffee brown. Thick foamy off-white head. Sweet caramel with a fruit touch. Followed by bitter grains and dark berries. The sweetness reasserts itself into the finish. Medium-heavy bodied. Oily. Flat-average carbonation. Long slightly astringent finish. Chewy ESB.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jun 2023
at 19:32
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle ordered from Beautiful Beers, Bury St Edmunds. Aroma combines rich malts, cacao, dark stewed fruit and booze. Opaque dark brown. Foamy beige head. Medium bitter. Cacao and coffee, followed by a boozy dark berry sour streak. Underlying sweet fruit and rich malts. Light-medium bodied. Slick verging on oily. Average carbonation. Long dry slightly astringent finish. Rich snd fruity. Kinda makes me think of a Baltic Porter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jun 2023
at 18:56
6/10
Tried
on 10 Apr 2023
at 12:39
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
21st November 2022; Monthly Shrewsbury Beer Share, five guys and loads of beer. Cheers Mike for the 375ml bottle of this; BB 19th November 2025. Rich amber body, weak head. Sweet, malty and a great body depth, boozy and Sherry like; really good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Nov 2022
at 07:05
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
375ml bottle @ monthly tasting, Chez Sophie, Nov 22. Proper good barley wine this, as you'd expect from an old chimneys collab. Nice deep fruitiness, leathery glimpses, toffee, layered dark malts, balanced glowing dark fruits.. lovely sipper with an evolving depth of flavour.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Nov 2022
at 21:36
04/09/2021. BRIARBANK, 70 Fore Street, Ipswich, Suffolk, England (BRIARBANK)
Tried
on 04 Nov 2022
at 15:58
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
9/9/2022. Bottle shared by SHIG, cheers. Pours slightly hazy pale orange gold with a small bubbly white head. Aroma is funky farmhouse, sour citrus, malty, yeasty, bready, slightly mucky. Medium sweetness, moderate sour. Moderate body, watery, average carbonation. Interesting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Sep 2022
at 11:46