7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask@Höyry
Copper brown color, good foamy off-white head. Honeyish flowery hoppy aroma. Dry, oakish start. Typical solid RCH product. Hoppy with some pinewood flavors. Dry aftertaste.
Copper brown color, good foamy off-white head. Honeyish flowery hoppy aroma. Dry, oakish start. Typical solid RCH product. Hoppy with some pinewood flavors. Dry aftertaste.
Tried
from Cask
on 29 Jan 2006
at 03:04
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Cask Handpull at County Hotel, JDW, Ashford. Deep ruby colour with thin beige head. Good choc coffee with some black cherry fruit. Full and velvety in mouth. Excellent porter. Choc is a bit powdery but fruit balances and runs throughout
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Jan 2006
at 10:38
7.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle conditioned
Golden color, huge head. Good ale, with some malt in the beginning, drier later, with a nice (dry) hoppy character (old hops).
Golden color, huge head. Good ale, with some malt in the beginning, drier later, with a nice (dry) hoppy character (old hops).
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Dec 2005
at 22:22
7.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Big beige head of coarse lace on dark red almost opaque body. Sweet harmonic coffee aroma with licorice, pepper, and pine notes. Sweet, smoky, burnt taste; aftertaste is a strange combination of driness, bitterness, soot, and coffee. Strangely thin mouthfeel. The sooty bitterness doesn’t really do it for me, but definitely a quality brew.
Tried
on 20 Dec 2005
at 14:53
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
(Bottle 50 cl) Very dark brown, close to black, with a vague underlying reddish tint. Creamy, beige head leaving a pretty lacework. Aroma of hard roasted malts with a lightly burned note. Rather light body, very malty, lightly burned flavours. Dry, but still soft and very accessible. 281105
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Dec 2005
at 10:23
1.9/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 2
Flavor 2
Texture 2
Overall 1.5
500ml bottle from Sainsburys. Oh dear. Murky reddy copper colour with thin white head. Soapy, spicey and not my style of beer at all. The spices seem all out of kilter with the rest of the beer. Perhaps it is just my sense of taste. Re-rate, you know what? I had to drink this again and it really is awful, the spice and perfume is just way too strong. Unbalanced and more or less completely undrinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Nov 2005
at 10:48
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask gravity at Blakes, Dover. I am amazed that it has taken me so long to have this on the site as I have had it many times before. Golden/copper colour with no head. Hoppy, good citrus, some tangerine on the aroma, but there is some balancing caramel too. Quite nice in mouth with good acids and drying hop bitter finish. A good bitter
Tried
from Cask
on 19 Nov 2005
at 10:38
3.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 2
Overall 2.5
Bottled import version...utter crap! A weak herbal aroma, atop a light bodied beer, mild herbal flavors, virtually no malt at all, then a big empty strong bitter finish. Near straw color, with a huge pillowy whipped cream head. Dumped it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Nov 2005
at 20:55
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask @ Bishop’s Arms Malmö. Black/ dark brown colour. Small tan head. Roasted malt and chocolate in the aroma. Taste is roasted malt, coffee and chocolate. It has more stout taste to me than porter taste. But i like it.
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Nov 2005
at 18:35
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask Conditioned
Hazy golden color, thin creamy head, nice lace. Too simple aroma. Some malt flavor, and medium bitter final with some aromatic hop, caramel and light fudge, but too simple, overall.
Hazy golden color, thin creamy head, nice lace. Too simple aroma. Some malt flavor, and medium bitter final with some aromatic hop, caramel and light fudge, but too simple, overall.
Tried
from Cask
on 25 Oct 2005
at 08:16