6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Dark brown in colour with ruby tones and a big, fluffy tan head. Sweet malt and dark fruit aroma. Flavour was sweet, with some chocolate, roastiness and an abrupt bitter finish. Ok.
Tried
on 26 Oct 2008
at 12:48
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Very dark brown with beige long-lasting head. Dark, smoky / roasted malt aroma. Medium body with plenty of fine carbonation. Rich with a sharp and bitter edge giving good balance. Malty with fruit and some dark chocolate / coffee notes with a bitter finish. Well balanced, but Porter is not my favourite style.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Sep 2008
at 14:26
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
500ml bottle from Asda, Ashford. Amber with thin off white head. Why isn’t this golden? Bleached hop aroma with some toffee candy sugar. Some hop/malt balance in mouth. Some floral hop on finish. It’s alright. Got Shep’s yeast character. Can’t help but think that it’s a slightly tweaked Goldings Ale. Hop sting is pretty good on end, but only an ok bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Feb 2008
at 11:15
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Tried
on 15 Feb 2008
at 09:44
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Dark brown/red, thin off white head, sweet malt, bit fizzy. wattery then bitter roast with burnt bitter linger ...2.6 Tk2 ... Deep black ... short lived foam head ... sweet roast malts ...toffee malts little buttery little roast... 3.2
Tried
on 03 Jun 2007
at 08:33
4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 3
brown in colour, way to fizzy and not very palatable, just didnt work for me at all.
Tried
on 09 Apr 2007
at 12:13
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Poured a dark mahogany colour with a thick caramel coloured head; typical chocolate malt aroma; sweet at first but balanced with a bittterness like that found in dark chocolate or cinder toffee. Satisfying but not outstanding.
Tried
on 10 Dec 2006
at 12:15
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Looks pretty standard for a bitter - chestnut brown with a white head. Malty aroma and stridently bitter taste. Excellent value.
Tried
on 13 Nov 2006
at 13:29
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle, Picked up by friend in Asda 22-09-06. Standard brown beer with busy white head, not much of an aroma. Malty, caramelly tasting beer not one that particularly tickled my tastebuds but fine enough.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Sep 2006
at 03:35
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle 500ml. Dark brown with slight hint of red, off white head some dark chocolate aromas which also were in the flavour some roastiness there with malts prevalent, this was’nt bad just nothing earth shattering.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Aug 2006
at 02:36