6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6
Cask at Birmingham Beer Festival 2016; dark chestnut brown pour with a thin tan head, aroma has red fruits and some roast, taste has light malts, some fruits.
Tried
from Cask
on 27 Oct 2016
at 13:20
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Vas. Gravity dispense. Barrow Hill jamboree. Pale gold. Thin, white head. Nose has creamy malts. Some vanilla. Light, leafy hop. Taste is light sweet. Palate let’s things down a bit, being thin and watery. Soft bitter finish. Ok.
Tried
on 07 Jun 2016
at 15:59
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask at the Rail Ale Festival Chesterfield, 2016. Poured a crystal clear straw colour with a thin broken white head. The aroma is citrus hop, light creamy yeast. The flavour is light bitter with a creamy fruity hop bitter palate. Light bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Jun 2016
at 09:02
6/10
Tried
on 31 May 2016
at 16:18
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
500ml bottle from Great British Food Show - Rich reddy brown body, thick lacing white head. Nose is a fruity aroma like a fruit salad sweet... only stronger and a bit more savoury. Taste is a grape led experience with blackcurrants and dried cake fruit coming through. Smooth full body, lasting finish. Decent enough.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 May 2016
at 16:02
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Cask gravity at Rail Ale ’16, 20/05/16. Pale yellow with an off White head. Nose is pale malts, lemon rind, straw, melon. That’s comprises lemon, toasted grain, fresh grass, light bread notes. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, semi drying close. Ok.
Tried
from Cask
on 25 May 2016
at 03:15
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at Chesterfield Rail Ale Jolly with RB crew; straw yellow pour with a thin white head, aroma has sweet malts and some caramel, taste has sweet malts, slight citrus action.
Tried
from Cask
on 22 May 2016
at 07:31
6.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
500ml bottle from Great British Food Festival - Like all the Tollgate bottles I’ve had so far, no head, this time a nice clear red body. Nose of ripe berries and caramel. Taste is sharp cake fruits, a bit of dryness on the way out. Reasonably good this one.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 May 2016
at 15:01
5.2/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
500ml bottle from Great British Food Festival - Awful murky pond sample of a body, no head and a ton of sediment. Thin and flat on the mouth. Nose has an uninspiring citrus, malt and caramel (by the book homebrew) nose. Taste is not unpleasant, but I was hoping for better seeing as I’ve a couple of others from Tollgate to chug.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 May 2016
at 11:20
5.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6
500ml bottle from Tollgate Stall at Great British Food Festival (labelled Tollgate Bitter) - Deep amber body with a very small head. Nose is a spicy fruit caramel toffee combo which sets up anticipation of a nice bitter. Taste is a bit flat, with the expected sweet malts and fruits washed out by a hefty hoppiness. Rather thin too which was a disappointment.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 May 2016
at 05:21