6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
500 ml bottle. Dark golden body with a big off-white head. Gentle malt and hop aroma. Flavor is a very pleasant malt and hop mix. Quite straight forward and nice bitter. Impressive balanced at low alcohol.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Sep 2007
at 07:44
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Dark brown colour with a beige head. Aroma is roasted, coffee. Flavour is roasted, coffee, hop. OK beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Sep 2007
at 23:57
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
amber ... light foam head ... light fruity hop nose ... light fruity hop quite a high sharp hop.
Tried
on 02 Sep 2007
at 06:43
5.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle. It pours a bit unclear, golden color, and a creamy, off-white head with good retention and it leaves nice lacings. Sediments in the bottle leaves you with a lot of floaties. The aroma is disappointingly weak, first I thought my beer was too cold, but letting it get warmer doesn’t help much. It has a fruity and slightly piney hoppiness, but that’s almost it. A very weak grainy or malty note is also there. The flavor is very much like the aroma, weak and hoppy that is. It finishes with a nice bitterness, but before that, there’s not much but fruity and piney hops, giving some bitterness. A medium body makes it rather quaffable, but it certainly isn’t a beer to enjoy if you want a real treat. (070829)
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Aug 2007
at 12:02
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle, at Cardinal. Hazy, golden body, topped by a minimalt off-white head. The aroma and flavor surprised me a bit, I was expecting more of a pale ale or something like that. It is quite sweet, with ginger, malt and hops, and the flavor has some dried fruits as well. The ginger comes through in the finish as well, and is followed by a pleasant hoppiness. Medium body. I find it a bit heavy on the ginger, but else it is quite nice. (070623)
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Aug 2007
at 11:53
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
bottle at home ... copper colour ... quite a bit of fizzz ... nice fruity hop with touch of lime ... Sweet caramel malt front with a little sourness ... grapefuit showing through ... some sweet hop resins ... finishing with dry linger.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Aug 2007
at 13:14
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask-conditioned at the Bag O’Nails, Bristol 9/8/07. A decent enough session beer. Aroma of dusty hops followed by a hint of biscuity malt and a bitter finish. Fine.
Tried
from Cask
on 09 Aug 2007
at 15:44
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask-conditioned at the Bag O’Nails, Bristol 9/8/07. Chris O’s comments are spot on. A reasonable if undistinguished bitter with a decent balance of hops and malt but nothing to stand out. Ok.
Tried
from Cask
on 09 Aug 2007
at 15:16
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 8
500 ml bottle. Almost black body with a beige head. Aroma is roasted malt, coffee and chocolate with a little hint of liquorices, very nice. Flavor is surprisingly mild, roasted malt, coffee and chocolate. Really nice sample of a well composed beer at only 4,5% ABV.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Aug 2007
at 13:44
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask gravity at Kent BF. Pale chestnut, really nice colour with thin white head. It’s fine. It does what it says, a drinkable session bitter. Decent hop. 3/5 Re rate cask handpull at The Rake Really hoppy ofr a 3.6% beer. Tastes like a proper bitter. Bit of hop, biscuit malt. Great condition.
Tried
from Cask
on 02 Aug 2007
at 13:10