Subsidiaries
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask (handpump) @ The Five Lamps, 25 Duffield Road, Derby, Derbyshire, England DE1 3BH.Clear medium yellow orange colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate to light malty, toasted - caramel, light to moderate hoppy. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, fruity, malty, salt water notes. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20111021]
Tried
from Cask
on 16 Sep 2012
at 02:52
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Tried
on 27 Jul 2012
at 22:28
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tried
on 27 Jul 2012
at 22:26
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Brown 500ml bottle, best before Sept 2007, drank Feb 2007. Poured into a pint sleeve a deep red mahogany body with an off white tight foaming head, looked a picture, a real bitter, not one of these new light coloured bitters that are flooding the UK market at the moment. Aroma of biscuity malts with a hoppy undertone. Good malty flavour, strong bitter taste, fine example of how a good British bitter should taste like. For a UK non-bottled-conditioned beer, this is as good as it gets, heavy malts stay, the 5% is evident, but not overpowering. Very impressed with this beer, interesting stuff on the label too, all about why its got the name and some history about one of Englands most visited stately homes (where the brewery is), Chatsworth House.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 May 2012
at 02:54
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
24th Oct 2010: My first Christmas beer this season (the bottle is best before the end of Oct, so it’s last years brew). Poured into an ’Abbot Ale’ tankard. Dark ruby red in body colour a good foaming head of a light tan hue sat on top. The smell is of toasted/roasted barley, they also dominate the taste. This is a true, sit by an open fire sort of winter warmer and evokes all the traditional thoughts of a Victorian Christmas. Fuggles hops ensure the malts don’t have it their own way and the beer has a nice balanced feel to it, dark and malty throughout, but with a hoppy bitterness under the surface with comes out as the mouth dries. A difficult to find beer; but well obtaining and trying.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Apr 2012
at 13:26
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 6
cask at 5lamps ...golden amber ... chlorine mellon hop nose ... sweet orange hop ... light ruit zezty ... little mellon
Tried
from Cask
on 21 Oct 2011
at 06:12
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Cask @ Bon Accord. Clear golden colour, white head. Aroma is soft malty, some hops. Flavour is malty, hops, citric. Juicy. Good drinkable.
Tried
from Cask
on 12 Feb 2011
at 08:22
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask, handpump at Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, Castleton, Peak District, Derbyshire 20.09.10. Pours chestnut in colour with an off-white head. Nice light nuttiness and lighty malty. Tasty bitter beer with good bitterness, very pleasant some vanilla also showing, some citrusy streaks also. Really good beer in a very good pub. A6 A4 T8 P4 Ov14 3.6
Tried
from Cask
on 21 Sep 2010
at 09:55
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
On gravity at the Rising Sun beer festival, Frampton Cotterell, South Gloucestershire 29/08/10. Amber with a slight, off-white head. Sweetish aroma of caramel with some fruit. Flavour was similar, with some biscuit malt, a touch of grassy hop and bitter finish. Fine.
Tried
on 03 Sep 2010
at 23:57
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask @ 3 Judges. Amber colour, off-white head. Aroma is caramel malts, slightly fruity. Flavour is caramel malts, some biscuit. Slightly bitter finish. Very average.
Tried
from Cask
on 17 Jul 2010
at 12:37