5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle on train from paisley beer festival...golden yellow... Big white head... Soft grassy lager nose...soft dull grassy tones again
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Sep 2013
at 09:19
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
330ml bottle shared with Ashton McCobb - cheers! Pours near-black with a thin white head, decent tight bubbles. Aromas are earthy and chocolate, but not getting any coffee. Toffee, but not coffee. Vinous in the mouth, richer than 5.2% would suggest. Then a sour note, as we agreed, like a Flemish beer. Dark cherries at the end. Not bad, but you get the idea that these beers are all experiments, with no fixed end-point in mind.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Sep 2013
at 09:42
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
33cl bottle from Stockbridge market. Appearance - opaque black, nice crema head which reduces to a thin layer of lace. Nose - earthy, maybe charcoal, then moving into dark chocolate. Touch of sticky toffee pudding on the end. Taste - surprisingly very winey. This has to be a yeast thing from the barrel, you would think? So, it’s probably cherry with a hint of chocolate but not much. Palate - relatively thin body relative to the nose, then a fairly persistent length. Overall - this is reminiscent of a Flemish Red or Brown.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Sep 2013
at 07:11
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle shared with Ashton McCobb. Best of a bad lot today. Pours a tan brown with thin white head. Vanilla, chocolate, coffee, rum’n’raisin ice cream. Demerara sugar on the taste. Good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Aug 2013
at 08:34
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
330ml from Stockbridge Market. I wouldn’t be as negative about this as Allmyvinyl. I think the results are not that bad, they’re not brilliant but they aren’t as bad as some. The big point here, however, is that it’s impossible to tell what the underlying beer is, it’s so dominated by the Laphraoig or Caol Ila cask that they’ve put it in. So, is there a plan for what they want the outcome to be in the end? The Oloroso and the Finest American were fantastic beers but is this by luck, do they just assume putting in any barrel is going to improve the quality?
Tried
from Cask
on 24 Aug 2013
at 02:51
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
33cl bottle from Stockbridge Market. Appearance - amber with a thin layer of lace. Nose - malt with a hint of spice. Sweet alcohol note too. Taste - prunes in alcohol maybe into fruit cake. Palate - medium bodied with a creamy texture and a reasonably clean finish considering the alcohol. Overall - decent but Eden have brewed many better.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Aug 2013
at 02:42
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
33cl bottle from Stockbridge Market. Appearance - opaque black with a thin attractive lace head. Nose - vanilla going into rum and raisin. Taste - vanilla and dark chocolate. Palate - medium to full bodied creamy texture not too cloying on the finish. Overall -yep this one definitely works. The best beer of the day - a disappointing day, mind.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Aug 2013
at 02:40
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle shared with Ashton McCobb. Pours golden brown with thin white head. Subtle aromas, fruit cake, toffee malts. Not much whisky going on. Touch of vanilla. Not much else happening. OK.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Aug 2013
at 09:20
5.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 5
330ml bottle shared with Ashton McCobb. Pours a lovely dark amber with a good white head. Smells medicinal, like Laphroaig. Tastes like chewing a damp plank. Like Islay Bitch Please, which was also terrible. Woody and off.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Aug 2013
at 09:13
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
33cl from Stockbridge Market. Appearance -golden steady bubbles nice head. Nose - toffee and some cooked apples. Taste - resin then more cooked apples. Some pith bitterness kicking in at the end. Palate - medium bodied with a creamy texture and a long drying finish. Overall - good beer probably in the traditional British ipa style. It continued to grow on me through the glass.
Tried
on 21 Aug 2013
at 02:16