Grumbo (24737) reviewed Ale Mary from RCH 7 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle, source not recorded, from old notes. Poured amber with minimal head. Aroma of malt, caramel, dried fruit, spices and light chocolate. Medium plus sweetness, moderate bitterness. Full body, sticky texture, soft to flat carbonation.
Cheeseboard (6301) reviewed PG Steam from RCH 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
Pint on cask. Pours clear copper golden with a white top. Aroma: pale malts, floral, lemon, grassy hop. Taste: light sweet, light better, citrus pith, lemon, caramel, toffee, lightly astringent. Light body, average carb, dry finish
ShivanDragon (10824) ticked Old Slug - Coffee Edition from RCH 7 years ago
Olut (22183) reviewed Firey Liz from RCH 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Cask at a Wetherspoons somewhere. This is an old rate due to a lost review because of a low word count after Ratebeer was redesigned.
Bitterbill (4334) reviewed Pitchfork from RCH 8 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
From Jun 2008
Purchased at Wilbur's Total Beverage in Ft Collins, Colorado.
It pours a clear gold with a huge head of billowy foam. Excellent head retention for the entire session and there is plenty of lacing.
The smell is a nice mix of caramel malt and some fruity notes. Overall, the nose is telling me that this one is going to be on the sweet side with not much of a hop presence. Being an English Bitter, I hope that's what it turns out to be.
The taste turns out as I hoped. Some sweetish tones kick things off followed closely by a nice fresh fruity flavour that soon dominates. The hops are there, of course, but assuming that they're the Goldings, they give this Bitter just a wee touch of citrus just before and through the finish and add the necessary amount of "bitterness" to balance the malt. Well done, me thinks, as I'm finding this 4.3%abv example of the style *very* easy to drink and it's not just because it's low in alcohol; this is a tasty son of a gun and that will stand, for me, on its own.
I have no clue as to the age of this bottle, other than I notice some haziness with the second pour and some....floaties. Ok. Another brew from the UK that, obviously, isn't in its peak condition and I guess I'm getting used to that by now. That's a pity because even though I *know* that it's well past its optimum state...I still find it tasty and very drinkable. A fresh sample would probably make me really go gaga..
BeardedAvenger (9338) reviewed Firebox from RCH 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Cask at PoW, Farnborough. Down as RCH, but is it n fact Pitchfork? No aroma. A dark amber. No head. Light bitter with a sweet edge. Fruity and spicy. Light-medium bodied. Slick. Flat. Lomg finish. Decent. Enjoyable jammy fruit.
Olut (22183) reviewed Rumpy Pumpy from RCH 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle from Cooperative Supermarket, Minehead. Amber-gold with a thin head. Has a small carbonation to what is a bitter in character, with a mild caramel sweetness in both aroma and taste.
berkshirejohn (10300) reviewed Hewish Mild from RCH 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Cask at the Bell, Waltham St Lawrence. An attractive glossy black pour with a ring of dark tan head; aroma of roasted malts; smooth and milky with a well-roasted malt taste, no bitterness and a little lactic sweetness; then a satisfying biscuity finish with a little milky chocolate. A good old fashioned mild.
Anders37 (30297) reviewed Hewish Mild from RCH 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cask @ GBBF 2016. Pours a black color with a small tan head. Has a roasted malty caramel aroma. Roasted malty caramel flavor. Has a roasted malty caramel finish.
Olut (22183) reviewed Return From The Ashes from RCH 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Cask @ White Hart, Todmorden. Clear golden with a small head. Undistinguished session ale that goes down well.