6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask gravity at Bowl Inn, Charing, BF 2006. Amber colour with thinning off white head. Jellied fruit aroma. Good malt. Some hop. Juicy malt in mouth. Impressively not sickly or overly sweet. Very drinkable. I would say more a very strong bitter than a barley wine. Really quite dry on finish after sweetish mouthfeel. But it really isn’t half bad. Wouldn’t want the other half of this pint though if I wanted to cycle home safely.
Tried
from Cask
on 17 Jul 2006
at 11:29
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask gravity at Bowl Inn, Charing, BF 2006. Clear chestnut colour with thin beige head. Rich fruit aroma, some dried fruit with raisins and sultanas in evidence. Nice hop. Full in mouth. Good malt, very tasty. Strong tasty grapefruit hop. Malt is excellent. Good beer.
Tried
from Cask
on 17 Jul 2006
at 11:25
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Hazy orange amber ale with a thin white head. A herbal hops in aroma with coniferous notes. In mouth, a fresh alcohol menthol like quality, hops, and citrusy notes. Rich and smooth. However, not true to the barley wine style. Still, a good beer. Bieropholie imports 2006.
Tried
on 25 Jun 2006
at 22:13
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
Dark clear brown with a few huge yeast chunks floating atop. Almost no head, and lifeless. A light murky malt aroma with nutty notes. In mouth, a roasted malt with notes of yeast, but no body, lifeless and sad. Bought from Bieropholie, for over 10$!!!
Tried
on 08 Jun 2006
at 16:20
8.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8
Bottle: Poured a deep slightly hazy copper color ale with a small bubbly head with no retention. Aroma is quite complex and hard to describe but I can pick up traces of vanilla and some subtle smoke. Taste is a well balance mix between some vanilla, caramel, very subtle smoke and some oak. Alcohol is well hidden and body is above average but not very full either. Carbonation is very low, almost like an old Thomas Hardy. Very interesting take on an ambiguous style (for me at least!) and I am very curious about trying some aged bottle in a couple of year since I believe age could do wonder to this beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 May 2006
at 14:00
8.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
500ml bottle from Pitfield Beer Shop. Black beer, with no head. Reall y nice aroma with molasses, choc and intense hop as well. Good in mouth. Again lots of molasses, dark treacle, coffee and hop dryness on the finish. Really good dark beer
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Oct 2005
at 20:20
4.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Deep garnet body, thin/medium buff head. Earthy aroma with figs, caramel, musty cabinets, and toffee. Possibly a bit sulfuric as well. Sour body with light toast and notes of rubber/plastic. Very thin-bodied. Strange and not so good...I don’t think I’m going to finish this bottle.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Aug 2005
at 22:10
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
A red-brown beer with a disappearing brown head. The aroma has quite strong notes of alcohol, that are not hidden by the notes of wood and prunes, that it also contains. The flavor has strong notes of prunes as well as lesser notes of raisins and wood, the end is dry from both the alcohol and the wood. It has good body and really gives You the warmth.
Tried
on 12 Jul 2005
at 15:21
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle Conditioned
Cloudy golden color. Very nice hoppy aroma, pine resins. The body is quite weak, dry, a bit sour; but it has a high hopping, aggressive, aromatic, metallic, with a pretty long final. Refreshing.
Cloudy golden color. Very nice hoppy aroma, pine resins. The body is quite weak, dry, a bit sour; but it has a high hopping, aggressive, aromatic, metallic, with a pretty long final. Refreshing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jul 2005
at 03:47
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
(Bottle 33 cl) Mahogany with a warm reddish glow. Delicious, creamy, light brown head. Dried, sweet fruit in the nose. Very vinous, port-like body with lots of dried fruit in the flavour and perhaps also a touch of chocolate. Soft mouthfeel, a little flat with a rather dry, short bitterness in the finish. 300605 & 110606
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jul 2005
at 10:53