5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Day 2 of the post Xmas Bamberg Jolly, Cafe Abseits Tasting bottle thanks to grumpy Ian, 25/01/14. Hazed orange amber with a thin off white covering. Nose is light plastic, bitter oragen, earthy, bread dough. Taste comprises bread dough, malts, faint hoppy backnotes, grass, citric twang. Medium bodied, fine carbonation. Decent for style.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Feb 2014
at 03:05
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at Cafe Abseits. Tasting. Quite a gun meral green hop flavour. Pale malts are fine. Good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jan 2014
at 10:23
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle from The Foundry and drunk at home. Amber orange colour with slight haze from pouring in a bit of the yeast. Lasting thin beige head. Not a lot of carbonation, in fact a bit flat in the mouth. I mean it’s quite syrupy and strong in the mouth. Yes some grapefruit hop, but not hugely bitter on the finish. For a beer that costs around £8 I think I expected a bit more. Made with green hops so you do get that gun metal flavour on the finish. Some toffee caramel malts, some pepper hop on the finish. A bit like the Fullers Vintage Ale I had last night, but not quite as good. It grew on me as I drank it, or was that the alcohol? Yes decent malt base and decent hops. I grew to like it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Dec 2013
at 10:38
5.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Nose is very strong, leather, petrol, oak, brown sugar. It’s intense, but not to my taste. Taste is biscuit, toffee, some smoke, leather, slight peat and sugars from the whiskey barrel. Mouthfeel is unpleasantly slick. This never really got going and I didn’t particularly enjoy, the sweetness of the whiskey was a little off putting.
Tried
on 01 Dec 2013
at 11:25
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
6.6% Bag in a box at The Foundry Canterbury. Clear gold no head. Bready apple aroma. Slightly acidic in mouth. Some sweetness. Not much tannin but quite acidicon finish. Dryish on finish but still plenty of apple fruit.
Tried
from Can
on 18 Nov 2013
at 06:36
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
@ M Café, Leuven. Dark amber, soft carbonation. Well balanced beer. Very intense hoppy character. Very long bitter aftertaste. Refreshing and dry.
Tried
on 04 Nov 2013
at 04:11
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle from Mouton Rouge, Canterbury. Hazy amber thin white head. Belgian yeast and green hop aroma. Excellent use of Belgian yeast and then the hops are just magnificent on the finish. May need a little more backbone, but that hoppy bitter slightly gun metal finish is superb. Yeast carries on throughout. Just lovely. Could drink this all night.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Nov 2013
at 12:56
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
4.4% Cask handpull at The Foundry Canterbury. Clear gold lasting off white head. Wow different from the regular beer. Only a faint ester aroma. Aroma is far more hoppy. Smooth in mouth with lots of green hop oil metal on the finish but in a good way. Like gun oil. Interesting. Belgian yeast kicks in towards the finish. Aggressive.
Tried
from Cask
on 20 Oct 2013
at 03:12
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask handpull at Foundry Canterbury. 3.8%. Clear light brown beer lasting off white head. An ok bitter. Some nutty character. Nutty definitely. Quite drinkable. Some bitterness on the finish. Stupidly drinkable session bitter. Wow. I really like it.
Tried
from Cask
on 20 Oct 2013
at 03:07
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
7.4% Aged on American oak chips. Pale gold slight haze thin collar of white bubbles. Well the oak and vanilla come through but don’t dominate the apples. Aroma takes me back to Napa Valley. Apple character is there but I would want it to be a bit more characterful to battle the oak. Certainly interesting though. Oh and it’s too sweet
Tried
from Can
on 19 Oct 2013
at 06:57