6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle from Tuckers Maltings. Golden yellow, mid-sized head. Shy malty base with lots of bitter and aromatic hops. Very light.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Aug 2012
at 08:32
5.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Hazy golden colour, hopped but with a sweetness which dominates taste and texture.
Tried
on 11 Aug 2012
at 14:26
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottled@chriso. Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is fruity, wooden, grainy and some mild herbal notes. Flavour is fruity, woody, caramelly and a bit floral notes. Quite grassy hoppyness as well in the finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Aug 2012
at 15:07
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Nicely hopped with a sweet pale ale aroma and similarly light character in its taste.
Tried
on 21 Jul 2012
at 14:45
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Hand pulled pint into a UK sleeve in the superb ’Bell’, Eccleshall, Staffordshire on 5th April 2012 during a mini-beerfestival. Yet another good looking golden, clear beer from Holdens: usual white crown too, this one was on the thin side though unlike most of their brews. The smell was earthy with hints of malty molasses and fruity hops: nothing strong, just esters floating up as the beer moved towards room temp. Refreshing more than rewarding in flavour: pleasant tasting blend with the malts just about leading the race for domination with the hops preventing the beer becoming sweet or over malty. My pint was in excellent condition and a joy to drink: pity it was during a fest or I’d have had another for sure.
Tried
on 03 Jul 2012
at 05:13
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask@Reading Beer Festival 2012. Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is fruity, floral, wooden, resiny and mildly vanillaish. Flavour is fruity, syrupy and mildly nectary.
Tried
from Cask
on 21 Jun 2012
at 01:28
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
22nd Feb 2012: Hand pulled pint in ‘The White Hart’, Shifnal, Shropshire. This annual Valentines Day beer from one of my favourite brewers is a mid-range amber colour and has an off-white head (like almost all of Holdens brews). The nose leans towards a malty caramel and toffee smell with a mini floral hop content as the beer warms in the glass. The taste follows the aromas: malty front with a mildly hop bitterness in the finish. Good, but not good enough to crave a second pint on this occasion.
Tried
on 19 Jun 2012
at 03:22
3.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 3
275ml bottle. Pours gold with a thin head. Aroma is soapy lemon and buttered popcorn. Taste has butter, straw. A little lemon and strawberry. Slick, oily mouthfeel.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 May 2012
at 15:10
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
500ml brown bottle, best before Oct 2010, poured in my small ’La Chouffe’ tulip glass three times (on Saturday 21 Aug 2010). Looked a picture, bright golden/light amber body with a lovely snow white foaming crown on top for each pour. Grainy aroma, with a subtle hop presence around too. The flavours blend well, hops dominate the initial taste, but the malts come through as the mouth warms the beer up, only for the hops to win the day as a bitterness arrives as the mouth dries. I like Holden’s beers, they are uncomplicated, honest and very drinkable. I am suprised I haven’t reviewed a few more, because I regularly drink their beers on cask.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Apr 2012
at 00:38
3.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 4
Really strange one this: a UK Ale Brewery producing a lager based on the German purity laws and using only water, hops, barley and yeast. Brown 275cl tall bottle, best before the end of Jan 2011. This beer was reviewed during a ’Pilsner/Lager’ tasting evening during Sep 2010. Poured into a Veltins Pilsner glass: mid-lager gold colour with no head worth talking about. Odourless and nearly tasteless, boring in all aspects, the brewery should stick to what it knows best, producing good quality Ales. I have seen it since being given away (at Coldsall Railway Buildings Pub).
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Apr 2012
at 05:00