Iznogud (14627) reviewed Morrells Scotch Ale from Interbrau 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
On tap at Bar Caffetteria L'asinella, Padova. Dark orange to brown. Caramel, malty, some alcohol, sweetish. Bit watery. Bitter finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from Julio's Deep amber in color bordering on copper with a decent sized long lasting off white head. Rich bready toasty toffee and caramel maltiness with bits of dark dried fruits and a fair amount of warming alcohol. Doesn't seem as harsh as the older Hardy's did when they were fresh and I quite enjoyed sipping on this beer. Might need a little bit of age to come into its brilliance.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
25 cl bottle @ Naamat. BBE 04.10.2027 Bottle #04581 Aroma has tart berry juice and swwet malt. Flavour has tart berry juice with sweet malt in the background. Probably this has found source of contamination from the barrel. Luckily the tartness fits here somehow.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
(bottle) 2017 vintage; clear, bright, orange amber colour with a small white head; aroma of apricot jam; balanced flavour with a long, medium bitter finish; not bad but only average as barleywines go
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Vintage 2017, bottle no. 30059. Pours a clean amber colour with a small warm-beige head that is frothy, average stay with a ring left. Big dark fruits for the nose with the richness and sweetness of figs, plums, dates. Some hints of hops giving a slight minty feel. The taste has the dark fruits, some brown sugars, but all well-balanced to not be too sweet, too rich. Some decent hops helps the finish. Some coffee notes lingers with the mild grassy hop dryness. A tad of liquorice. Gets quite bitter as it goes. Gets hazy at last pour. Yeah, a very hoppy Barleywine. Nice !
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
hazy reddish amber colour, moderate sized creamy beige-ish-yellowish off-white head; aroma of soy sauce, apricot jam, prune, slight grape(seeds) and biscuits; taste of biscuit with apricot and plum jam, syrupy sweetness and some spicy alcohol; good one!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle 330ml. @ home.[ As Thomas Hardy's Ale 50th Anniversary ].Bottle # 00629. Clear medium orange amber colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting to diminishing, off-white to light light beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, caramel, sweet malt, dried fruit, figs, dates, wood, alcohol, light vanilla. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and light to moderate bitter with a long duration, sweet malt, caramel, dried fruit, figs, dates, wood, alcohol, light vanilla - barrel. Body is medium to full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat, finish feel is warming and light alcoholic. [20190604] 8-3-8-4-16
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle, 13%. Hazy dark amber with small off-white head. Aroma is malt, caramel, toasted, wood, biscuit and dark fruit. Flavour is malt, caramel, toasted, sweet, wood, dark fruit, biscuit, warming and medium bitter.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 6.5
Near total lack of carbonation creates a cask vibe, which, while intriguing, also leads to a very sweet, thick, stagnant pint, missing the needed effervescence to fight off the clinging brown sugar and toffee dominating the beer. Slight hints of bubbles on the fade add false hope of perkiness, and, while the nut-n-honey meets dried fruit back end does present a modicum of depth, overall this brew seems rather simple: boozy sweetness, through and through. Kinda surprised upon reading the label how young a bottle this is; seems old as dirt.