7.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 8
In 2012, a collaboration with Mikkeller. In recent years the collaborator has changed each year with varying degrees of success (although it's never been less than good). Dark brown with a cm of beige head. Choc-orange aroma with some brioche, nectarines, pine and pepper. Delicate, alive texture. Not much depth or grunt to the malt side of things. Lovely fruity/ piny/ peppery hops. Bitterness is a little on the low side for me (although it builds a bit). Very nice stuff but doesn't q creep into my best 3 of the series (12, 17, 23).
Tried
on 16 Apr 2025
at 13:34
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Cloudy, gold in color with a three finger head. Hoppy like an IPA with the spice like a Saison. A nice beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Mar 2025
at 05:50
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can. Cloudy yellowish orange with a modest white head. Tropical breakfast juice aroma with some twiggy herbal notes to remind you that it's beer. Dryish and crackery with enough of a platform for the fruit (but not much more) before a modestly bitter finish.
Tried
on 04 Mar 2025
at 12:57
7.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
I guess I had the 2016 version & then forgot about this one for a while. Red, pink head doesn't last too long. Deep funk, wood, syrupy cherries. Somewhat sour taste. Mellow, some boot polish, metallic hints. Even slightly peppery @ the end. Dry, not thin.
Tried
on 15 Feb 2025
at 12:59
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Aroma of malt, dried fruits, oak, sugary notes, vinous, caramel, toffee, tart overripe apples, some Brett funk. Flavour is moderate to medium sweet. Interesting clash of flavours, but a bit too much malt and toffee for my taste.
Tried
on 13 Feb 2025
at 05:04
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5.5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Dark brown colour with medium head.Aroma of brown sugar and caramel good toasted and bready taste with some note of chocolate and hint of burnt malt Medium body and smooth finish.RB rating 2012
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jan 2025
at 10:26
6.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pours orange/amber with a small fading head.Nose shows pine, resinous hops, tangerine, marmalade, clean sweet-smelling malt.Flavours include more pine, some grapefruit, marmalade and resinous hops along with clean malt, a hint of a bready note, and an aggressive bitterness.
Tried
on 07 Jan 2025
at 08:58
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Pours gold with a large fading white head.Nose shows tropical fruit, resinous hops, pine, soft petrol-like new world hop notes, soft clean sweet-smelling malt.Flavours include robust pine, resinous hops, super clean malt, not too sweet though. Soft bready notes follow along with more lashings of spicy, herbal hops alongside the pine.
Tried
on 01 Jan 2025
at 08:50
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
From a 330ml bottle on 31/12/2024. New Year's beer, courtest of Ed, and shared with Ed and Butz. Pours a deep brown with no head. The nose features dark chocolate, caramel and stewed and dried dark fruit (prunes, raisins, figs). This all comes through on the sip as well, with uber intensity. Ultra boozy and warming at the back with a roasty, spicy, licorice bitterness that lingers long, but it somehow it's not too much. You're not surprised it's 32% but it actually does present as beer, which is not always the case with these crazy high abv efforts. The palate is slick, syrupy and oily, the carbonation softish. I didn't think it would be this good. Great work Bridge Road.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Dec 2024
at 11:04
5.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Never sure how different these Christmas beers are. Can, cold. Gold with a rapidly disappearing white head. Aroma of cheap icecream. Taste is more convincing icecream - sweet, a little caramel, decent vanilla. A little bitterness keeps it drinkable.
Tried
from Can
on 24 Dec 2024
at 11:11