Subsidiaries
4.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Sampled @ GBBF day 3. Lightly hazy yellow golden color, small white head. Smell and taste malts, lightly bitter, buttery, a weird touch of fruit. Low body, low to average carbonation. Meh.
Tried
on 20 Aug 2014
at 04:02
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle from 2008. Looks really good. Beer in the glass dark brown, small head. Intense malty aroma with a smokey touch. Starts quite strong, not too malty, light alcoholic burning notes. More and more earthy malty. Finish warming malty, less alcoholic. Nice one!
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Aug 2014
at 03:58
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Tap at the White Swan, Solihull. Poured a clear medium amber with a frothy white head. The aroma is light malt yeast citrus. The flavour is light to medium bitter with a chewy malty resin hop bitter palate. Medium to light bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Aug 2014
at 02:58
8.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as O'Hanlon's Thomas Hardy's Ale (2003 - 2008) (by Hanlon's Brewery):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 9/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 17/20, MyTotalScore: 4.1/5
1/VIII/14 - 25cl bottle @ Belgo-Swedish Crazy Summer Trade Tasting - BB: n/a, 2006 vintage, P19960 (2014-867) Thanks to hackobock for sharing the bottle!
Little cloudy deep brown beer, small creamy off-white to beige head, unstable, dissipates quickly. Aroma: sweet, caramel, dried fruits, honey, alcohol, some chocolate, bit oxidized. MF: ok carbon, full body. Taste: milk chocolate, bitter touch, caramel, more chocolate, pretty sweet. Aftertaste: little bitter, lots of chocolate, some honey, bit oxidized, orange peel.
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 9/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 17/20, MyTotalScore: 4.1/5
1/VIII/14 - 25cl bottle @ Belgo-Swedish Crazy Summer Trade Tasting - BB: n/a, 2006 vintage, P19960 (2014-867) Thanks to hackobock for sharing the bottle!
Little cloudy deep brown beer, small creamy off-white to beige head, unstable, dissipates quickly. Aroma: sweet, caramel, dried fruits, honey, alcohol, some chocolate, bit oxidized. MF: ok carbon, full body. Taste: milk chocolate, bitter touch, caramel, more chocolate, pretty sweet. Aftertaste: little bitter, lots of chocolate, some honey, bit oxidized, orange peel.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Aug 2014
at 12:14
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle - Vintage 2010 - Raisin, plum and dark sugars. Muddy brown with almost no head. Prunes, dark sugars and some woody notes. Woody slight sweet and bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Jun 2014
at 12:06
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Tried at the CAMRA Lincoln beer festival 2014. Not a full rating as drunk as part of a whole day session.
Tried
on 24 May 2014
at 02:12
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
2008 vintage from Sherbrooke Liquor, Edition #47228. No idea this was already 6 years old! Pours murky muddy brown with zero head - of course, it’s a barley wine. Strong alcohol smell on the nose with fruits and some nuttiness trying to come through. Flavour starts as licorice with hazelnut and caramel. Solid, thick mouthfeel. I’ve had better barleywines but this is still quite nice - maybe next time I’ll cellar a bottle for 4 more years.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Apr 2014
at 11:57
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Gravity cask at the Bree Louise (or Russian roulette, as it goes) - London. Pours clear, reddish brown with a wimpy, bubbly white head. The nose holds toasty bread and whispers of cocoa. Light sweet flavor with toasted brown bread, slight earth, nice cocoa. Light bodied with fine carbonation; OK condition. Balanced finish with more relaxed cocoa character and toasty, bready dark malts. Good stuff.
Tried
from Cask
on 16 Apr 2014
at 11:01
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
On gravity at the Commercial Rooms (JDW), Bristol, March 2014. Golden in colour with a decent, white head. A hint of orange peel and leafy hop, but a bit underpowered. Ok.
Tried
on 16 Apr 2014
at 09:34
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask at the foot of the walk.. Golden amber... Small white head... Soft floral lemon fruit nose... Soft dry lemon... Lught floral linger
Tried
from Cask
on 14 Apr 2014
at 04:12