Subsidiaries
7.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Beers of Europe, King’s Lynn
Hazy brown color, with generous head. Very nice aroma of dark malts, caramel, wood, cream, light smoke. Good body, with good malt and caramel flavor, some toffee, treacle; the final is more woody, and drier (this is a pity), with delicate smoke.
For once a different Ale, very good.
Hazy brown color, with generous head. Very nice aroma of dark malts, caramel, wood, cream, light smoke. Good body, with good malt and caramel flavor, some toffee, treacle; the final is more woody, and drier (this is a pity), with delicate smoke.
For once a different Ale, very good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jul 2012
at 14:23
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Ambrato carico buona schiuma discreta persistenza naso maltato leggermente fruttatodiscreto amaro non molto aromatico discreta secchezza leggero caramello
Tried
on 12 Jul 2012
at 14:07
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bag-in-the-box at Square Peg, Birmingham
Golden color, with a small but persistent creamy head. Light malt and caramel aroma. The malt flavor is quite good, with some toffee and light butter; correct bitterness level too. The final is lightly metallic.
Pleasant.
Golden color, with a small but persistent creamy head. Light malt and caramel aroma. The malt flavor is quite good, with some toffee and light butter; correct bitterness level too. The final is lightly metallic.
Pleasant.
Tried
on 12 Jul 2012
at 13:46
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
50 cl bottle, 4.8%, 2.80€. Clear amber color with a bubbly offwhite head. Nose has something fruity with a hint of roasted malts. Aroma of roasted malts, caramel, syrup, sugary, with cascade hops. Really don’t know how maple tastes like so can’t judge that.Taste is sweetish and sugary with a moderate bitterness balance.Mouthfeel is fuffy, medium bodied with a sourish edge and moderately dry. Carbonation is soft.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jun 2012
at 08:57
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
11th September 2009
Cask at Chapel Beer Festival. Hazy gold beer. Low carbonation. Light dry palate. Light dry malt. Medium bubblegum. Finishes pineapple and grapefruit without being too bitter!
Cask at Chapel Beer Festival. Hazy gold beer. Low carbonation. Light dry palate. Light dry malt. Medium bubblegum. Finishes pineapple and grapefruit without being too bitter!
Tried
from Cask
on 27 May 2012
at 09:25
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Feb 2008: 500ml brown bottle, this beer is made with cascade hops for aroma, amber malts for colour and a hint of maple for the hell of it. good solid amber colour, almost clear but a slight cloudiness can be seen. The white head soon disappeared into a wispy semi covering. The aroma was fairly weak, some hops and barley but little else. The maple may well be in there, but I couldn’t find it, I found the beer sharp, tangy and bitter. In other words, what an English bitter should taste like. The beer became drier as I drank it and although it wasn’t unpleasant, it changed my perception of the beer and I would have prefered it to have got sweeter with the maple making an appearance. All in all, fine. The maple tag is obviously a gimmick because there was no hint of it within the drink according to my senses, which is a shame, because I wanted to see what it would do to the beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 May 2012
at 08:58
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Brown 500ml bottle, best before 25 Nov 2008, drank 09 Jan 2008, which was cold wet and windy dat in Shropshire. Poured into a pint sleeved glass. Good colour, a deep terracotta red/amber with a weak biege head that tried to stay, but failed. Some malt, hops and fruits of the forrest are in the aroma, but it isn’t a heavy smelling beer. The flavour is a well balanced mix of the basic ingrediance that should be in good strong bitter. A little weak in the mouthfeel, not really watery, but not a thick feel either. No a bad beer, one I would have again but not look for.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 May 2012
at 05:41
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
It would seem every other brewery in the UK has a Honey beer, this is Holts attempt. My brown 500ml bottle had only two weeks to go before its best before date (23 June 2010). The beer was poured (chilled) into a vase shaped pint glass (badged, Old Speckled Hen). The body is a dull golden/amber in colour, a thin off-white head sat on top. Mexican aroma honey? Has been used according to the bottle label, I could just about sence hints of honey, along with some citrus hoppiness. The taste was bland and uninteresting, there is a slight presence of honey within the flavour and a mini hop bittereness to counter it. Sadly they just don’t blend too well, the malts come into the flavours towards the end of the mouthfeel. To be fair, everything grew in size (aroma and flavour) as the chillness eased off and the beer warmed, I enjoyed it a whole lot better during the second half of the review.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Apr 2012
at 23:27
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 5
50cl bottle. Decent white head. Clear golden pour. Nice enough beer but I was expecting more.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Apr 2012
at 11:49
4.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
One of 16 bottled beers in the 2011 Sainsbury’s Supermarket Beer Challange. Clear 500ml bottle, two owls on a small golden front label. The beer was poured into a UK pint sleeve (Sep 2011). I knew the beer was a clear golden colour, the head that came was white, small and struggled to stay the distance. The aroma was of grassy hops with maybe some citrus esters easing through as the beer warmed. No great flavours to pontificate about, just a boring blend of hops and malts, this isn’t going to win anything. Don’t like slagging off small breweries, but this is a poor attempt for a challenge against 15 other brews.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Apr 2012
at 05:12