Subsidiaries
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Cask at Angleterre, Helsinki. Colour is copper with white brownish head. Aromas and flavours are grass, sweetness, malts and bread. Strange alcohol in taste.
Tried
from Cask
on 09 Nov 2012
at 07:27
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at Angleterre, Helsinki. Colour is golden with white head. Aroma and flavours are fruits, hops and grass.
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Nov 2012
at 06:35
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
(Cask at Black Door, 20121025) The beer poured golden and hazy. Its head was small and white. Aroma had fruitiness, sweetness and malts. Palate was medium bodied and dry with low carbonation. Flavours were fruitiness, grain, white bread, malts and bitterness. Aftertaste was malty and bitter. A bit musty overall impression and the flavour I taste as white bread was not fitting here. Good aroma.
Tried
from Cask
on 25 Oct 2012
at 03:34
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Retro reviews from Spring 2012 Wetherspoons Beer festival; This is more like it maybe it has something to do with the new world hops used but has just the right balance between citrusy hops and malts.
Tried
on 19 Oct 2012
at 00:56
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
50cl bottle from the Sainsbury’s Beer Hunt range. Amber with a fast fading white head and heavy carbonation; the aroma has some grain and some orange fruit; fruity flavour; and a gentle vegetable bitterness to finish. Hasrdly a Hefeweizen though.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Oct 2012
at 12:56
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle from Sainsburys. Light orange pour with a white head. Tangerine, mango and lemon peel aroma. Caramel and citrus flavour. Quite a fruity number. Fruity finish. Not too bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Oct 2012
at 06:45
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Starts with an almost floral scent. The taste is an odd combination of what tastes like some sort of spice with a sweeter edge, though none of the flavours really dominate.
Tried
on 01 Oct 2012
at 04:38
8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
At home: 500ml bottle, best before 28 Aug 2013, poured into a UK pint sleeve on 26 sep 2012. Lovely amber coloured body with a full, deep foam head, like an off-white snow blanket. The nose is all about roasted and toasted malts: they indicate a rich, strong malty brew is below and they are not far wrong. The taste as the aroma suggests is malty molasses with some butterscotch and caramel added into the mix: this isn’t overly sweet though, so some hops must help to give it a balance and slight bitter finish. The body feel isn’t as rich or creamy as the nose would have you believe: this is robust brew more than a smooth one. A Winter Warmer sort of beer without the Smoking Jacket.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Sep 2012
at 13:48
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
18th September 2012: Birmingham (England); mini-pub-crawl. 2nd pint of the evening was in the Wetherspoons pub called ‘The Brier Rose’. I enjoyed this immensely and found it to be far superior to its bottled version. Same lovely dark ruby red body: this time the head stayed, a thick layer of tanned foam sat throughout the tasting. Chocolate and coffee esters in the nose; carried on into the taste and then liquorice arrives to add extra flavours and balance. Malty molasses gave it some sweetness, which helped my enjoyment of the pint as I prefer the slightly sweeter brews to the hop bitterness some offer. Richer and creamier than the bottle; this was a great beer and set me up for the rest of the evenings drinking.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Sep 2012
at 04:55
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle from Sainsburys. Amber with a slight white head and plenty of carbonation. Sweet, grains and citrus fruit aroma with a hint of spice. Flavour had some caramel, more fruit and a gently bitter finish. Fine.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Sep 2012
at 06:29