6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at the Earl of Essex - London. Pours clear, bright gold with a filmy, white cap. The aroma holds hay, biscuits and faint, dry lemon. Light sweet flavor with further biscuity pale malts, slight butter, straw, light rindy citrus. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Mild sweetness to finish, more doughy biscuits, light bitter straw and dry lemon. Basic golden ale.
Tried
from Cask
on 26 Feb 2014
at 08:59
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask at Six D Abz. It pours near black with a small bubbly tan head. The nose is soft roasty, earthy, toast, salted caramel, treacle and liquorice. The taste is bitter-sweet, cocoa, earth, light spice, cola, roasty, toast, umami, aniseed and treacle with a soft finish. Medium body and soft carbonation. A solid porter.
Tried
from Cask
on 25 Jan 2014
at 10:40
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Dried fruit and malt aroma, quite sweet. Flavour is very sweet, fruity and warming. Smooth and quite thick texture.
Tried
on 24 Dec 2013
at 15:37
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Quite an intense coffee and roast malt aroma. That also comes through in the flavour together with light smoke, although less intensively. Body is a little thin.
Tried
on 24 Dec 2013
at 12:34
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Hazy golden colour. Thick texture, light carbonation. Some peaches in syrup, orange peel and a light sharpness. Some bitter hoppiness tucked away in the finish.
Tried
on 24 Dec 2013
at 12:12
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Red brown colour. Quite gassy straight from the bottle but soon settles down. Strong malty aroma. Flavour also has strong roasted malt with some cocoa. Nice bitter, dry finish. Lingering aftertaste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Dec 2013
at 11:45
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 7
Bottle at Craig’s tasting. Huge smoky nose, quite thin body, chocolatey, smoky.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Dec 2013
at 02:28
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at Craig’s tasting. Sweet dry bitter toffee, light fruit, light toffee nose. Bottle at the brewery. More floral flavours coming through, some pine.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Dec 2013
at 02:24
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle at Craig’s. Pours clear brown with no head. Aromas of alcohol and leather, toffee, dark fruit and sherbet. Taste is sweet, bit too sweet, and woody. Then finishes bitter. OK, bit cloying.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Dec 2013
at 02:34
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle at Craig’s. Pours clear gold with a thin white head. Aromas of honey and floral hops. Taste has a decent bitter kick. Finishes clean. OK.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Dec 2013
at 02:31