6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at Norwich Beer Fest: Poured a chestnut brown with a tan bubbly head. Aroma is malty, rich, leafy. Taste is light bitter with rich malty.
Tried
from Cask
on 31 Oct 2021
at 22:06
6.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
500ml bottle from the brewery and drunk at home. Dark brown and slightly translucent with a tiny ring of off-white head. I get some of the coffee and vanilla notes, with some paper and blackberry notes. Sweet taste with a bit of berry bitterness in the finish. Flat body, almost zero carbonation. It's fairly middle-of-the-road but drinkable enough.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Oct 2021
at 23:43
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
500ml bottle purchased from the brewery and drunk at home. Very dark brown, with a tiny ring of off-white head. Aroma of roasted malts, some caramel and liquorice root. Tastes quite sweet, with more liquorice coming through. More toasty malt notes in the finish along with a slight bitterness. The body is disappointingly flat. Good all in all.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Oct 2021
at 22:32
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask: Poured a deep black brown with a beige color head. Aroma is rich roasted malts, chocolate, espresso coffee, vanilla bean. Taste is rich and roasted malts, chocolate, subtle coffee, vanilla bean, very nice balance.
Tried
from Cask
on 10 Oct 2021
at 13:24
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle bought from the Anglian Beers stall or whatever it was called at Bury St E Market. Aroma has sweet dark dried fruit, molasses and underlying sweet liquorice. Darkest brown. Glossy. Foamy beige head soon shrinks away but leaves behind some decent lacing. As per the aroma, this primarily sweet - them dark fruits and cream. Liquorice and booze then appears. Underlying boiled veg is a tad annoying. Although the lasting flavour is the bitter liquorice. Medium bodied. Creamy albeit it also seems thin. I don't know... Nice enough, however doesn't seem the finished article.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Oct 2021
at 21:41
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
500ml bottle bought from the brewery and drunk at home. Murky dark brownish gold with a little ring of white head. Lots of tropical fruit, some pine, dried grass. A bit messy. Tastes much better: sweet with boozy marmalade and more pine notes. Turns bitter at the end with lime and kumquat peel in the finish. Not really impressive but drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Oct 2021
at 23:11
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
500ml bottle as part of a delivery from the brewery and drunk at home. Dark gold and cloudy with a tiny bit of white head & a lot of lacing. Creamy notes in the aroma with hints of fresh pulpy mango. Sweet taste with a bit of a posset feel halfway through. Hoppy bitterness in the finish. Thick body with low to medium carbonation. A decent enough beer but with a bit too much lactose.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Sep 2021
at 22:18
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
500ml bottle ordered from the brewery and drunk at home. Dark gold and clear with the tiniest bit of white head. Lited notes of tropical and orchard fruits, caramel, marmalade. The bittersweet taste has a welcome sharpness to it which turns to a concentrated bitterness in the finish. Bittering hops - bordering on too much - crowd the tongue in the aftertaste. So far I've found Mr Winter's beers to be a little bit same-y, bit that's no reason to diss the individual beers which are quite good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Sep 2021
at 16:53
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
500ml bottle bought from the brewery and drunk at home. Orange/gold, hazy with a spotty white head. Pleasant, floral aroma, some apricot and dried grass. Balanced bittersweet taste. Sweet at first but it draws into a bitterness toward the long finish. Oft to medium carbonation. It's not an exciting beer but it's quite moreish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Sep 2021
at 21:50
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 10
Overall 6.5
500ml bottle delivered from the brewery and drunk at home. Dark gold and clear with a small white head. Grass and apricot on the nose, with a tiny bit of pine. Bittersweet with an intense bitterness later in the sip. Citrus, more grassy notes. Soft carbonation is just enough to give it a bit of zip. There isn't a whole lot to it, it's just a very well-made pale.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Sep 2021
at 23:42