7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Pours a reddish brown colour with a small frothy beige head. The aroma is fruity, lots of plum, sweet malt and fruitcake. A smooth light sweet taste, stewed plum and sweet malt flavours with subtle chocolate and woody notes. A smooth mellow bitterness and more plum in the finish.
Tried
on 11 Feb 2022
at 10:40
4.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle. Nose is very very plummy, jammy, maybe a little port, hit of blackberry. Taste is plum flavouring, surprisingly bitter, with licorice and a hint of aniseed, strawberry, jammy, blackberry, I really cant find much of the port barrel. Edit: My mistake it's port infused - who knows what that means practically. The basic Plum Porter I thought was very poor and this is not much better. The bottle suggests 'plum flavoring'. Whatever constitutes that syrup (I rather suspect the 'foodie flavours' product), dominates the beer with a thumping, powerful, note, like you would find in a soft drink. The port has no meaningful impact I can find. A fruit beer without fruit in the brewing process, and a short cut to get port flavours without barrel aging. It shows why proper brewers take time to the job properly; this is a genuinely terrible beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Dec 2021
at 20:03
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Cask at Sun Inn, Stafford. Pours a hazy golden yellow with minimal foamy white head, but good lacing. Mushy apples upfront in the aroma, with some corn and a dash of citrus. In the mouth, the initial sensation is a repellant sharp metallic sesation. Thankfully, this softens over time to give some sweetness with pink grapefruit flavour plus some generic citrus. Finish is quite bitter. A typical Titanic pale beer – in that I don’t like it !
Tried
from Cask
on 07 Dec 2021
at 21:40
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Cask at Ship on Gracechurch Street, London, 2nd December 2021. Pours a clear very dark brown. Aroma is sweet malts, liquorice, cocoa. Taste is interesting, sweet, plum comes through, a little cocoa, quite complex. Good and different
Tried
from Cask
on 02 Dec 2021
at 19:53
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Very dark red beer, thick off white head. Rich, fruity aroma. Flavour is fruity, good maltiness, some dry hop and a little warm booziness. Warming and pleasant.
Tried
on 19 Nov 2021
at 22:38
6.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Lively, clear red beer with a decent white head. Cherry aroma. Flavour has some cherry as you'd expect, some hops and malt. Quite dry as it turns out with a distinct bitterness in the finish. Not a lot else going on. It's fine, could maybe have leant into the cherry a little more. Fairly drinkable but it'd have stood out with a bit more cherry.
Tried
on 14 Nov 2021
at 18:10
5.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Gylden. Middels høyt luftig skum som daler sakte. Veldig lett bæraroma. Smaken ripsbær. Tørr bitter avslutning.
Tried
on 14 Nov 2021
at 15:25
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Hand-pulled half-pint at The Plough, Shifnal on 7th November 2021. Dark red cherry body, smooth creamy head that was beige in colour. Nice cherry aroma and flavour, not too overpowering, nice!
Tried
on 08 Nov 2021
at 07:21
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask at the Pump House JDW, Shirley, West Midlands. Poured a clear medium amber colour with a lasting creamy white head. The aroma is malt, big raspberries. The flavour is moderate sweet, light bitter, with a smooth, malt, juicy raspberry, light sweet vanilla palate and a lingering bitter finish. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Cask
at
Pump House (JDW)
on 31 Oct 2021
at 19:53
8/10
Tried
from Cask
on 30 Oct 2021
at 12:49