cagarvie (40235) reviewed Double Header from RCH 19 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
a Yellow coloured ale, with a light hop noes and a light smooth hop fruity flavor.
Downender (11273) reviewed Steam Showers from RCH 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Cask conditioned at the Rising Sun, Frampton Cotterell, Gloucs 8/4/2007. Bronze best bitter with strong head. Fruit was to the forefront in both aroma and flavour, with a decent dry aftertaste. A pleasant enough beer.
cagarvie (40235) reviewed Old Slug Porter from RCH 19 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
deep depp brown, with a bournvill dark chocolate pallate, gets better as you settle into it. again Cask, GBBF 07 ...Deep black ... light roast malts little coffee... thin roast malts some fruit soem coffee scored up 3.4 ->3.7 tk 3 3.7->3.6 dark brown... thin head ... nice sweet roast nose... big chocolate roast .... soft roast ... tasty 3.7
bhensonb (22726) reviewed Ale Mary from RCH 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Spicy aroma. Definitely ginger. Medium amber color with shards of lacing from a minimal head. Starts spicy. Ginger and coriander. Some malt, followed by dark fruit -raisin? Hard to define the finish. I suppose the spice complements the hop. Ginger all the way. Quite a complex thing.
yngwie (24447) reviewed Old Slug Porter from RCH 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottled. A clear, dark brown beer with a nice beige head leaving lacings. Roasted aroma with some coffee and a vague hint of chocolate. Coffee, burnt malt and some chocolate-notes in the flavor. Too thin-bodied. Long, coffee-bitter finish with some fruityness. A bit one-dimentional, maybe some food or snack could to the trick? (070321)
RuneBlix (26478) reviewed Old Slug Porter from RCH 19 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle from Utobeer. Bottleconditioned. Dark brown-tinged body under a thin brownish head. Roasted smell. Dark chocolate and mild coffee with a touch of cocoa flavour. Thin to medium palate (shared with Magne and CinnamonGirl, 03.02.2007).
Harrisoni (26309) reviewed Santa Fe from RCH 19 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cask gravity at White Cliffs BF 2007. Pale chestnut colour with thin beige head. Malty aroma, fine. Some good hop on end. Very good barley wine, bit of ginger spice. Sweet. Nice barley wine but could do better. Some tangerine in there as well.
Sloefmans (15519) reviewed Ale Mary from RCH 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
Good, dense cream-coloured and long lasting head, lace included, over quite carbonated red-foxy beer with some UFO’s. Vegetable, garden herbs, sourish to nearly astringent nose. Further spices, the only identifyable being clove. Berries (currants,quetches, mirabelles,...) too. Fruity and very spicey flavours. The clove is too powerful, too imposing, and not natural as a Weizenyeast would yield. Certain soapy flavour as well, seems amalgamated by the fruit and spices. Dry finish indeed, nearly tart. A bit oily texture, medium to well-bodied, some astringency all the same. I don’t know about this Mary, but my marie, sorry, Lut, nearly spat it out. Can’t say I’m over the moon either.
berkshirejohn (10300) reviewed Ale Mary from RCH 19 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle Conditioned pours a slightly hazy reddish amber with a dense white head; spicy aroma, I can pick out the cloves and ginger, but I’m less sure about the coriander; thick and rish in the mouth, dry and spicy at first, then fuller and sweet, but leaving a very dry and spicy aftertaste of nutmeg and cloves. Not something I’d go looking for again, but worth the experience
Sloefmans (15519) reviewed Old Slug Porter from RCH 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Cask Black beer with some brownish edges under B.C."H.". Slightly hoppy nose, whith some dark malts, liquorice, and hints at moccha. Nice, grapey, definitely hoppy taste, with flavours as from grape juice without the excess sweetness and as if sweetened with Traubenzucker . Light but not watery, some grist-like slickness. Original porter - a flavour which I would not associate with the style. I would tend to call it a very good mild, in fact.