6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask@GBBF2007. Deep golden colour, mediumsized white bubbly head. Aroma is honey, wood, some grains and sweetness. Flavour is dark fruits, some berries and quite wooden hops.
Tried
from Cask
on 31 Aug 2007
at 00:38
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Huge lasting brown head. Opaque black body. Milky faintly roasty hoppy minty aroma with smoky notes, very harmonic. Sweetish sharp burnt coconut smoke and licorice taste. A bit watery. Dry, smoky, minty burnt aftertaste. Quite nice, but a bit flat. Probably much better on cask. (0.5l bottle from Centra.)
Tried
from Cask
on 22 Aug 2007
at 16:41
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask-conditioned at the White Lion, Bristol, 20/8/07. Pale amber, with a decent, lacy white head. Aroma of floral hops with a touch of orange sweetness. Flavour started malty before a decent hoppy finish. Slightly grainy mouth feel. Good.
Tried
from Cask
on 20 Aug 2007
at 17:00
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask (handpump) @ The Corner House, B3, Birmingham. Clear light yellow color with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, fully diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate hoppy, flowers, grass, moderate yeasty, orange, notes of cinnamon. Flavor is moderate sweet and moderate to heavy bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat.
Tried
from Cask
on 17 Aug 2007
at 03:27
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Clear gold with huge, off-white head, very finely lacing. VERY nice nose with hops, lunaria , kafir leaf, wheat and grain sheaf, hay. Again a very fresh, hoppy (my guess are the NZL hops...); just bitter main taste, perfumey, and a soft, mineral water with sweetness and some salt. Light bodied, but nowhere empty - mineral water quality. Definitely one of the BEST wheatbeers I’ve ever tasted.
Tried
on 11 Aug 2007
at 15:09
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Very clear golden brew, well-carbonated, with just off-white head. Toasted, or pre-sliced bread; warm malts, then fresh garden herbs and lunaria . In the taste, first a dull, sweet impression, alleviated by some grassy hopsflavour, but qutie subdued, a bit dull after all. Toasted again too. Medium bodied, ending a bit empty. Okells must be the only brewery in my knowledge, managing to make a wheatbeer that is more interesting than their IPA!
Tried
on 11 Aug 2007
at 15:05
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Gravity dispense at the Miners’ Arms Summer Beer Festival, St Werburghs Bristol 6/8/07. Golden colour with a minimal head. Sweet malt aroma with a touch of spicy hops. Flavour started sweet with a grassy hop finish. Not bad.
Tried
on 06 Aug 2007
at 15:55
8.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Rerate, 500 ml bottle, as Okells Aile Smoked Celtic Porter, courtesy of Cardinal Pub & Bar, Stavanger. ABV is now 4.7%. My comments are basically the same as for "Branded Drinks Coal Fire Porter", so the two beers must indeed be identical. A lovely drop! Original rating: 500 ml bottle, courtesy of Cardinal pub, Stavanger, under its alias "Branded Drinks Coal Fire Porter". (Are you sure they are exactly the same beer?) ABV is 4.6%. BB date Oct 08. Pitch black colour, large tan head. Lovely aroma of chocolate, roasted malts and plums, with a hint of liquorice. Distinctly roasty flavour with notes of coffee, hints of peat, smoke and tar, bitter finish. The mouthfeel could have been fuller, but this is still a good beer!
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Jul 2007
at 16:51
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
CBF07 sample from bottle (as Branded coal fire porter). Pours deep brown/amber with almost no head. Aroma is sweet and smoked malty, slight floral hoppy. Good dark malt flavour going into a dry bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jun 2007
at 00:17
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottled at Københavnske Øldage. Clear, a bit pale golden body, and a small white head. It has a nice, fruity aroma with piney and citrusy hops. The flavor is much the same, but with an added touch of lime. Quite bitter finish. Medium body. A refreshing beer, but I would like more malt to balance it. (070511)
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jun 2007
at 15:09