6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6
Cask. Pours a very dark ruby, tight white bubbles in the head, which disappears. Aroma- toffee, hops, fruits- cherry and raisin. Taste is lots of toffee sweetness, toffee apple, port hints, plum and raisin, almost like mulled wine. Thick, a bit syrupy in the mouth. Alcohol well hidden. Nice.
Tried
from Cask
on 08 Jun 2014
at 02:55
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle @ Chriso May 14 tasting. Pours hazy gold with zesty aroma. Refreshing, balanced taste with decent bitterness behind a fruity hop character. Nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jun 2014
at 13:27
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
7.4% on cask at foundry Canterbury. Sweetish esb hides alcohol well. Good strong fruity esb.
Tried
from Cask
on 01 Jun 2014
at 05:52
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle, massive thanks to Ian. It pours dark brown with a minimal tan head. The nose is sweet, roasty, toffee, vinous, berry, yoghurt, candy and milk chocolate. The taste is crisp, roasty, toast, tart berry, treacle, vanilla, mild astringency, decent bitterness and milk chocolate with a warming finish. Medium+ body and fine prickly carbonation. Rather decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 May 2014
at 11:03
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Bamber Jolly day 2 25/01/2014. Tasting at Cafe Abseits. Thanks to Ian. Aroma is nutty malts, cereal, some diacetyl. Clouded orange coloured pour, white head is fleeting. Flavour is bready, yeasty esters, Some cereal grain tanin. Some lemony grassy hop in the finish.
Tried
on 20 May 2014
at 15:03
5.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Bamberg jolly day 2 25/01/2014. Tasting at Cafe Abseits. Thanks to Ian. Clouded golden colour halo off white headAoma is grassy, lemon, bread and light resin, some pine. Flavour is metal, caramle, berry, strawberry, slight skunk. Thin slightly watery palate.
Tried
on 19 May 2014
at 14:47
6.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bamberg joly day 2 25/01/2014. Bottle shared at Cafe Abseits. Thanks to Ian. Clouded orange coloured pour with no head. Aroma is berry, hedgerow hop, some spicy hop as well. Flavour is creamy, hoppy and berry. Grassy berry hop bitterness. Some dry crispness in the finish and some hot alcohols.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 May 2014
at 15:14
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Keg at Tap East - Stratford, London. Pours clear, burnished gold with a fine, foamy white head. Bready malts on the nose with accents of gummy fruit candies. Light-medium sweet flavor with more of this gummy fruit, slightly sugary and lightly toasted pale malts, some leafy and grassy bitterness. Light bodied with average, crisp carbonation. Oddly saccharin. Finishes with yet more chewy, fruity candies, basic bread, slightly off-kilter bitterness. Disjointed and not especially drinkable.
Tried
from Draft
on 22 Apr 2014
at 12:00
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask gravity at Planet Thanet BF 2014. Hazy amber lasting white head. Belgian yeast a little bit of fart some hop. Belgian and hoppy in the mouth. Not very bitter on the finish. Ok. Some ok Belgian character
Tried
from Cask
on 18 Apr 2014
at 14:35
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7
Cask handpull at The Foundry Canterbury. Fruity spicy hoppy Belgian ale peppery hop throughout with some black pepper hotness on the finish. Some Belgian esters on the aroma. Ok. Not great condition. Will work better on keg.
Tried
from Cask
on 12 Apr 2014
at 07:33