6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
4th February 2010
Chelmsford Winter Fest. Clear but dark brown beer. Light brown suddy head. Malt and sweet bubblegum nose. Light palate, a little dry. Dark malt, bubblegum, a little fruit and herbal medicine. Initially this was a bit too much but perseverance pays off. Smooth, tasty and highly unusual.
Chelmsford Winter Fest. Clear but dark brown beer. Light brown suddy head. Malt and sweet bubblegum nose. Light palate, a little dry. Dark malt, bubblegum, a little fruit and herbal medicine. Initially this was a bit too much but perseverance pays off. Smooth, tasty and highly unusual.
Tried
on 08 Jun 2012
at 10:10
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
11th September 2009
Cask at Chapel Beer Festival. Clear amber beer, suddy head. Light palate, a little dry. Low carbonation. Sublte and light grapefruit hops.
Cask at Chapel Beer Festival. Clear amber beer, suddy head. Light palate, a little dry. Low carbonation. Sublte and light grapefruit hops.
Tried
from Cask
on 27 May 2012
at 08:26
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask at the Waggon and Horses, Halesowen. Pours gold with a small head. Aroma is straw and biscuit malt. Taste has straw malt and some cooked veg. Easy drinking but probably should’ve stayed retired.
Tried
from Cask
on 19 May 2012
at 09:06
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Mild in May: bottle conditioned 500ml. Out of date by some four months, poured slowly into an Abbot Ale glass tankard on 8th May 2012. Deep, dark Ruby red body with a huge biege head that gushed out the bottle. Malty nose and taste, fairly rich and full bodied, well carbonated and interesting. Chocolate and coffee hints from the maltiness, but not too heavy or overpowering. Fuggles hops kick in late and give the beer a balanced bitterness to counteract the malty sweetness initially found in the flavour.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 May 2012
at 13:08
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask, somewhere in Birmingham. Brown pour with an off white head. Aroma of dark fruits, malts and raisins. Same aspects in flavour, fairly sweet and with a bitter finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 19 Apr 2012
at 15:00
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at Walsall beer festival. Dark brown pour with a tan head. Roasted aroma with strong coffee and chocolate. Same aspects in flavor with a bitter finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 19 Apr 2012
at 12:33
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6
June 2010: A pint taken at ’The Plough’ in Worcester, very close to the cathedral. The beer is very dark, with next to no head, just a tan coloured collar surrounding the inside of the glass. Smokey malts, peat bogs, earthy smoke feel to the smell. The taste was coffee, dark chocolate and smoked hams. I thought the body a bit thin for the flavours and on the sweet side of dry. Different and OK.
Tried
on 18 Apr 2012
at 08:26
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
cask at the Walsall beer festival 2012. Almost no head. Clear deep ruby pour. Very nice!
Tried
from Cask
on 16 Apr 2012
at 15:43
4.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
500ml Brown bottle conditioned UK brewed wheat beer poured into a Franziskaner Weissbier glass on 13 Apr 2012. The beer has a slight haze to its otherwise pale golden body. The head was thin and white in colour, getting thinner with every sip. Citrus hop aroma and taste: not a lot else really. Refreshing but somewhat lacking in depth and deep flavours.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Apr 2012
at 13:16
3.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3
My bottle conditioned version had 5.5%ABV, not the 4.7% as stated on here and BA. Anyway the 500ml brown bottle had a best before date of Oct 2011 and was taken late July 2011. The beer is mid-amber with an off-white head of small bubbles. Pale and Crystal malts only, so darker than I thought would be the case. Sadly the beer wasn’t very good, it had a dry almost metalic aftertaste and no foretaste either: a big let down from start to finish. This really was a ’nothing beer’. I found hints of malts and hops, but not enough to comment on.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Apr 2012
at 01:18