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
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can, Bridge Rd Advent box. Pours gloopily. Opaque orange with a white head. Yes, smells like fresh passionfruit pulp. Tart with a sweet creamy background that's presumably the lactose. Really does taste like a pav but less sweet. Not really for me - the can asks Ever wondered what pavlova would taste like in beer form?, to which the answer is obviously of course not - but very well done.
Tried
from Can
on 23 Dec 2024
at 11:24
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Can, from their Advent pack. My 200th Bridge Rd rating here as the sun sets over RateBeer. Just misted gold with a loose white head that fades to a cm. 3+ Vibrant aroma of mango and other tropical fruit, then peach and citrus. Maybe a little bread. Still overly fruity in the taste but it's pretty lean so gradually the blousier fruit is reeled by slight peppery bitterness. No great depth but refreshing.
Tried
from Can
on 20 Dec 2024
at 15:13
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Can, their Advent box. Clear golden amber with a small white head. Aroma of fleshy mango, some mandarin and lemon, bread. Leanish but fruity at first with a straightening peppery and pine bitter finish. Refreshing.
Tried
from Can
on 12 Dec 2024
at 12:49
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle, their Advent calendar. Clear deep gold with a brief inch of white head. Funky aroma of crackers, grapes, old lemons, bootpolish, candied pineapple. More sweet than sour with lots of fruit and bootpolish funk with old oak and gentle acidity providing a drying finish. I would have liked it a tad drier, but pretty classy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Dec 2024
at 12:36
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Their Advent box. Hazy amber with a loose white head. Fruity aroma with berries, citrus, peach, weeds.Upon a taste it's a little earthy too. Refreshing. A bit softer than Coopers Red and less bitter, but it rhymes.
Tried
on 06 Dec 2024
at 12:42
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Advent box. I guess this one explains why the secret collaboration series was a 5 pack. I guess what made it special made it dangerous. Slightly unclear amber with a good cm of white head. Wholesome classic APA aroma of grapefruit, weeds, mango skin, crusty bread, pine. Light bodied but with enough caramel so it doesn't seem thin. Citrus and particularly tropical flavours get a bit rapidly overtaken by firm weedy and piny bitterness. Very good.
Tried
on 05 Dec 2024
at 12:02
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Advent Box. Gold with a good cm of white head. Aroma of mango, crackers, mandarin, pine needles. Pretty dry (a _little_ drier than the secret collaboration WC Pils?) leaving the tropical notes without a lot to sit on - but that makes it seem a little more like a pilsner, as does the fact that the pine is pretty needle-y & peppery. Refreshing.
Tried
on 04 Dec 2024
at 11:36
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pours dark brown with a small head.Nose shows intense chocolate along with nutty and biscuity malt.Flavours include lots of chocolate, soft roasted malt, nutty notes. Good balance without as much sweetness as the aroma would suggest.
Tried
on 12 Oct 2024
at 07:19