5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Holden’s November ’World Leaders Beer’, they have brewed a new beer each month in 2013 for this series: gravity poured at the Birmingham CAMRA Beer Festival on 30th Oct 2013. Golden and bright body with a white crown on the throne. No great leading aroma, some hop notes with a grainy undertone just about sums it up. The taste was also a bit of a let down: mini fruit feel with a drying semi-bitter hop finish, but not much of anything really: let’s say it has delicate and subtle flavours rather than robust or powerful attributes. An OK brew I suppose, but expected more from a ’World Leader’.
Tried
on 01 Nov 2013
at 02:39
4.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 4
Cask (thanks Caspar, backlog). Orangeish amber colour with a small off-white head. Aroma is toffee, caramel, wood, some slight toffee and floral notes. Flavour is quie much butterschotch with some mild floral and wooden notes.
Tried
from Cask
on 31 Oct 2013
at 00:40
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask at the Birmingham Beer Festival 2013. Poured a clear medium amber with a thin broken white head. The aroma is stale malt weak but zesty citrus fruit and hoppy notes. The flavour is medium bitter with a light bodied palate and a short bitter finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 30 Oct 2013
at 16:28
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at The Great Western during the RateBeer Black Country Bus Bash. Pours clear gold with a light, creamy white head. Sweet, doughy malt character with accents of sugary citrus and light hay, orange. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Sweet finish with bready malts, light dough and orange citrus. OK.
Tried
from Cask
on 30 Oct 2013
at 02:07
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
An ok grape like bitterness with a watery aftertaste. Color is golden amber with a white head.
Tried
on 26 Oct 2013
at 06:54
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle from Utobeer, London. Clear amber with an off-white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel, fruity and light hoppy - grass. Flavor is medium sweet and light bitter. Sweet and light bitter finish. 261013
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Oct 2013
at 06:51
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Copper-bronze in colour with a small head. It is sweet in character, both nose and taste are sugary.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Oct 2013
at 14:35
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Gravity cask at the Solihull CAMRA beer festival 2013. Poured a crystal clear medium amber with a thin white head. The aroma is of stale malt. In fact the initial smell was rather skunky and not so pleasant but it didn’t last after a little exposure to some of the festival air. The flavour is medium to weak bitter with a smooth liqourice hop, malty palate. A decent session ale, but the initial smell concerns me a little.
Tried
from Cask
on 04 Oct 2013
at 15:27
6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 7
Przecietne Mild Ale. Jak dla mnie zbyt karmelowe bylo to piwo ze az mi przeszkadzalo. Kolor dosc bursztynowy, ale o ciemniejszej barwie pilem mildy. Piana miewielka. Srednie wrazenia, ale troche jednak bylem rozczarowany tym Ale
Tried
on 03 Oct 2013
at 09:02
6/10
Tried
on 28 Sep 2013
at 13:32