6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
500ml bottle from Asda. Colour is copper / bronze. Bread aroma with slight toasty malt. Dry malt flavour. Not bad but only just.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Feb 2014
at 00:00
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
500ml bottle from Asda, Dunbar. Golden amber pour, thin white head that doesn’t hang around. Aromas of dried fruit and caramel, touch of biscuit. Thin, with a light bitter finish. OK as a bitter, not an IPA at all.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Dec 2013
at 11:11
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
500ml bottle from Asda, Dunbar. pours dark brown with decent tan head. Lots of roasted coffee in the aromas, some caramelized sugar. Taste has a good roasted bitterness and more coffee. A little thin, but otherwise not bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Dec 2013
at 11:10
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
50cl bottle from Asda, High Wycombe. Amber with a thin white head; typical Shep aroma, dry and chalky, with perhaps a touch of citrus; some sweet fruit flavours, but otherwise it’s hard to distinguish this from Spitfire; and an orangey biscuit finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Dec 2013
at 13:42
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Deep gold with a slight white head and a touch of carbonation. Tired hops, a touch of wet cardboard, bready malts and a slightly redeeming, bitter finish. Not for me, another indifferent bottled English beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Dec 2013
at 15:29
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
0,5 l bottle from Seiyu supermarket, Komazawa-daigaku, Tokyo. They have started to import some British ales and prices are quite reasonable. Pours dark amber with a small head that disappears fast. Aroma not too specific, some acidity, a bit of malts and something sweet and fruity. Taste - mainly bitter. Some bread maltiness spreads over mouth and leaves nice bitter-dry sensation. It does have flavour, although a bit too one-sided for my taste. Would be good to session it at a real English pub.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Sep 2013
at 07:49
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
More like a Bitter than an IPA. Strangely I pick up some spice in the aroma, cinnamon. Otherwise lightly fruity, some digestive biscuit.
Tried
on 24 Sep 2013
at 13:07
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
2012. Pale, transparent colour. Crisp, delicate, refreshing blend, not your typical Vintage at all. Very light tasting, you couldn’t convince me it was more than 4%. Normally I’d write off a cider like this, but Jonathan Blair has entranced me with this one.
Tried
on 19 Jul 2013
at 12:00
6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
500ml bottle. Pours amber with a thin head. Aroma is grassy malt and sweet citrus. Taste has sweet citrus. A little bready malt. Touch of skunk in the finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jul 2013
at 14:37
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at Seiyu, as Gentleman JAMES. I suppose it must be that they Japanese don’t understand “Jack.” \298. Rather malty nose, some caramel, English hops, grass, some nuts. Dark amber-orange with a low, fine head. Sweet and malty, caramel and chocolate and nuts. Dry, grassy hops. Very dry finish. Clean. A rather typical bottled bitter, but good hops and nicely drinkable, and good for the price in Japan.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jul 2013
at 02:44