7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Cask Tonbridge Rugby Club Winter Festival 2024. Cloudy towards turbid pale gold colour lasting white head. Some New England style hop aroma. Some pineapple fruit in mouth. Big hop aroma. Decent condition. Moderate hoppiness on the finish. Fine. Good juicy hop flavour.
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Feb 2024
at 12:28
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can from Cork & Cask. Pours hazy yellow gold with a thin white head. Aromas of pineapple and passionfruit. Taste is pithy grapefruit, more pineapple. Light bitter finish.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Jan 2024
at 17:52
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
27th January 2024
Can. Just a light haze on this amber beer, small cream colour head. Smooth palate, mildly dry, decent fine carbonation. Smooth caramel malts, a light and semi dry creamy malt. A modest alcohol spice starts to tingle in the mid, but there is no heat here, not for an old soak like me anyway! Fair rich ripe fruits on the back end, rich and smooth. Finishes smooth and semi dry and moderately spicy. A decent barleywine but tastes quite immature to me. This one needs time, I would say 3 years min, just to develop.
Can. Just a light haze on this amber beer, small cream colour head. Smooth palate, mildly dry, decent fine carbonation. Smooth caramel malts, a light and semi dry creamy malt. A modest alcohol spice starts to tingle in the mid, but there is no heat here, not for an old soak like me anyway! Fair rich ripe fruits on the back end, rich and smooth. Finishes smooth and semi dry and moderately spicy. A decent barleywine but tastes quite immature to me. This one needs time, I would say 3 years min, just to develop.
Tried
from Can
on 27 Jan 2024
at 18:49
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Dec 2023
at 12:24
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Can at home, and a gift at Christmas. Rich deep cloudy orange colour with a thin head. From and taste are tart to sour fruity apricot. rich body.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Dec 2023
at 16:08
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask @ Tap and Can. Pours a misty golden yellow, white head. Lightly floral nose. Flavour profile bears a very gentle hop presence, light floral shades, not much else to speak of. Comes across like a very low strength pale.
Tried
from Cask
on 22 Dec 2023
at 18:00
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
21/12/2023. Cask at The Ale House Chelmsford Christmas Beer Festival. As Almasty Best Bitter, same abv. Pours clear bright golden amber with a small bubbly white head. Good pour. Aroma is buttery, caramel, malt, fruit, bread, hints of spice and sulphur. Quite sweet with moderate bitterness. Moderate body, soft carbonation. Had a lot better from Almasty.
Tried
from Cask
on 21 Dec 2023
at 12:45
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Gravity cask at Pigs Ear '23, day two, 29/11/23. Dark mahogany brown with a decent beige cap. Nose is dark malts, pine needle, ripe citric peel, charr. Taste comprises earthy hops, roasted bite, dried fruit rinds, tropical fruit back notes, pine needle. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, semi drying close spiked with earthy come lightly dankened hop bitterness. Solid cask CDA.
Tried
from Cask
on 10 Dec 2023
at 17:17
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
keg at pigs ear . ugly murk and not that dark ...soft dry chocolate Roast malts nose ..soft rich dry pine roast
Tried
on 01 Dec 2023
at 12:36
7/10
Tried
on 29 Nov 2023
at 19:19