6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Cask Very pale honey colour; disparate transparant B.C."H.". Rather sweetish nose, pizza dough, with some herbal-hoppy quality. Pale malts with a very slight smoked edge - smoked hops added? There’s a light hoppy bitterness, but giving in to the malts. Ever so slightly citrussy flavoured. Light, very light, with a slight slickness. It’s not undiserving. An entrance for the boys...
Tried
from Cask
on 29 Jan 2007
at 12:20
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask@Black Door, Helsinki. Godlen colour, small white bubbly head. Fruits hops and some wooden hints with hints of some herbs and milder spices. Flavour is caramel, fruity and herbal hops, grass and some slight wooden hints. Maybe not a flavourbomb, but indeed refreshing.
Tried
from Cask
on 24 Jan 2007
at 10:59
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Casked (as Chimera IPA, 6.7%). Honeyish golden colour with foamy white, longlasting head. Aroma is honey, nectar, hops and slight earthyness. Flavour is enormously flowery hops balanced up with some honey and spices. Spices and grass mainly dominate the aftertaste. A very pleasant one.
Tried
from Cask
on 22 Jan 2007
at 11:40
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
500ml bottle from Bacchanalia, Cambridge. I was looking forward to this. Some people had bad bottles, so I was in two minds, but I had a good one. Gold colour with lasting white head. Strong citrus astringent hop aroma. Really very leafy floral hop, like De Ranke XX Bitter. Just gorgeous. Enough malt to give it a bit of body. Sour astringent aroma. Sherberty hop finish. Wonderful.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jan 2007
at 11:18
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Cask (as Downton Dark Delight, also 5.5%). Dark amberish ruby/brown colour with mediumsized bubbly head. Aroma is hops, wood, some caramel and chocolate. Flavour is sweet caramel malts as well as grass and some wooden hints. The finish gets hayish/grassy and dry. Some slight roast also, once it got warmer.
Tried
from Cask
on 22 Jan 2007
at 10:11
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6
Cask@O’Connells. Quick rating, before running the crap out of myself to get on the train... which showed to be 20 minutes late... typical. Anyway, good beer to end the beer day in Tampere with. Hazy golden colour, small creamy white head. Fruits, spicyness, hops, slight wooden hints in the aroma. Flavour is fruity hoppy and caramellish. Aftertaste is flowerish hoppy.
Tried
from Cask
on 15 Jan 2007
at 03:05
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
(Cask at Priory Arms, Stockwell, London, 24 Nov) Golden amber colour with small white head. Fruity nose with distinct aromas of citrus, mainly grapefruit. Lots of hops. Fruity taste with notes of grapefruit, pine-needles and a lovely citrussy, hoppy finish. Slightly sweet, but with a lovely hop character. Very nice.
Tried
from Cask
on 04 Dec 2006
at 16:25
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Casked. Pale copper coloured, bubbly head, which vanishes quite quickly. Vegetables, caramel malts as well as slight hoppyness in aroma. Grassy and hoppy flavour with some sweet caramellish malts in it. Quite wellbalanced. Rather thin.
Tried
from Cask
on 15 Nov 2006
at 23:14
3.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 2
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3
Cask at The Duke of Wellington Norwich 26 Sep 2006. Dark brown golden coloured. A tiny head. Unpleasant metallic aroma. Strange fruity flavour. Abrubt ending. An uninteresting IPA.
Tried
from Cask
on 24 Oct 2006
at 04:30
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Half pint on gravity at The Duke of Wellington, Norwich. Golden coloued body with a low level of foam. Sweet hoppy to the nose in a rather weak aroma. Malty and lightly honeyed sweetness in flavour. Missing bitterness (26.09.2006).
Tried
on 21 Oct 2006
at 13:18