6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Keg.Onslow Arms, West Clandon. Floral and hoppy aroma. Amber brown. Thin white head. Caramel sweetness with some hoppy bitterness. THIN. Watery frizzy. Dry finish. OK. Drinkable.
Tried
on 05 Apr 2018
at 14:51
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle, Scout, shared with Bazz, Sandi & Vran. Shiny brown body. Sweet berryish dry aroma, not that bad, not IPA-ish. Caramelly dry taste, okay, light fruity hoppy touch, sweetish, sugary finish. Eeeh, not a terrible, erm, industrial brown ale? But a pretty terrible Black IPA. Still, the second best of the range.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Mar 2018
at 14:30
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle at Scout, Samobor. Shared with Bazz, Sandi & Vran. Poured a golden body with a awhite head. Diacetyl, caramel and herbal-fruity hoppiness. Tropical sweetish taste, dry and bitterish, herbal, caramel and, again, the range's trademark diacetyl. More tolerable than the godawful Session IPA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Mar 2018
at 14:28
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at Scout, Samobor. Full golden body, white head. Light flowery-lemony dull hoppy aroma. Watery taste, but with a noticable hop presence, flowery, lemony and herbal again. Quite okay, by far the best of the bunch, while not particularly thrilling.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Mar 2018
at 14:26
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Bottle at the Crown, Hazlemere, 24/03/18. Very lightly hazed golden orange with a decent off white cap. Nose is floral, melon, grass, lemon rind, faint parma violet notes. Taste comprises toasted grains, orange peel, grass, melon, citric sherbets, biscuit. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close. Sub par for style but I'd rather have this over GK IPA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Mar 2018
at 16:10
4.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Bottled 330ml (Prisma Mikkola)
Clear copper colour, small beige head. Aroma is heavy on butterscotchy diacetyl. Light-bodied. Less diacetyl in the flavour. It has toffee/crystal malt, harsh hoppyness and reasonably robust body for this ABV. Well this one has "some problems".
Clear copper colour, small beige head. Aroma is heavy on butterscotchy diacetyl. Light-bodied. Less diacetyl in the flavour. It has toffee/crystal malt, harsh hoppyness and reasonably robust body for this ABV. Well this one has "some problems".
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Mar 2018
at 19:11
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at The One Elm, Stratford-upon-Avon. Orangey-gold with a moderate fizz and a thin white head. Peach dominates the smell and taste with pink grapefruit and light caramel behind. Sweetish with negligible bitterness. Tasty and quite more-ish, I actually enjoyed this; a pleasant surprise from Greene King and far better than I expected. Even my normally beer-unaware wife said she didn't mind this. I note that the bottle said the different hops would be used on rotation (actual hops not specified) so we might get some quite varied opinions on this one.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Feb 2018
at 22:15
2.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 2
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 1
Bottled 330ml. -Courtesy of Trolleo, shared with him, Marko and veceo. Clear golden coloured, small white head, heavy diacetyl in the nose. Again diacetyl, cardboard, diacetyl etc. Said enough. Impressively awful.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Feb 2018
at 13:38
2.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 2
Bottled, thanks Trolleo. Shared with me, ogivlado and veceo. Clear golden-amber body, tiny head. Aroma... oh no, ooooh no... textbook diacetyl, and only that, buttery AF.... and then edged with light cardboard. Taste... more diacetyl, more cardboard, maaaybe, maaaaaaaybe light lemon if I stretch my imagination. If this is an academy, this is the guy who flunked the first grade due to a lack of attendance, because he couldn't find the classroom. Just terrible. I mean, okay, I figured, I won't even rate it, then I look at the bottle and it's BB September 2018, so no, no excuses. Will try it again some time as it's obviously not usually like this, but man, this should not have gone out.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Feb 2018
at 18:04
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
A coppery beer, a head is medium and blond. Aroma has toffeeish maltyness, some citrus, wood tropical notes. Taste has toffee, fruitness, wood, medium bittermess, some roughness. Almost medium bodied. Decent.
Tried
on 21 Jan 2018
at 04:45