5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
15th March 2014
Bright clear red - amber beer with a few pale cream coloured bubbles for a head. Palate is light and dry and mildly crisp. Minerals. Starts with a dry floral bitterness with whisper of orange and spices. Papery dry malt and then a dry finish with mixed spice bitter linger. Bit of an odd duck, first mouthful was okay, then it got a bot chewy, and then came full circle to okay again. Passable, just.
Bright clear red - amber beer with a few pale cream coloured bubbles for a head. Palate is light and dry and mildly crisp. Minerals. Starts with a dry floral bitterness with whisper of orange and spices. Papery dry malt and then a dry finish with mixed spice bitter linger. Bit of an odd duck, first mouthful was okay, then it got a bot chewy, and then came full circle to okay again. Passable, just.
Tried
on 16 Mar 2014
at 04:31
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Cask at the Wellington, Birmingham. Poured a clear dark brown with a bubbly light tan head. The aroma is light malt with a little coffee and cocoa. The flavour is medium bitter with a rich roasted malt, chocolate coffee hop spice bitter palate. Medium bodied with soft carbonation. Really liked this. Lots of flavour. Lots going on!
Tried
from Cask
on 09 Mar 2014
at 12:26
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
15th February 2014
Bright clear amber beer, small untidy white head. Palate is light and dry with mild minerally carbonation. Light malty with whispers of toffee and caramel. Hops are mildly floral with a touch of tangy citrus. Some twiggyness and a trace of bubblegum ester. Light dry finish. Standard stuff but clean and fresh.
Bright clear amber beer, small untidy white head. Palate is light and dry with mild minerally carbonation. Light malty with whispers of toffee and caramel. Hops are mildly floral with a touch of tangy citrus. Some twiggyness and a trace of bubblegum ester. Light dry finish. Standard stuff but clean and fresh.
Tried
on 08 Mar 2014
at 07:51
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
1st March 2014
Opaque dark brown beer, small pale tan head. Palate is crispy and dry. Lots of dark chocolate here with a little chocolate powder on top. Touch of tangy dark fruits. There isn’t a lot of dark malt! Chocolate aftertaste. Tasty and err quite chocolatey porter.
Opaque dark brown beer, small pale tan head. Palate is crispy and dry. Lots of dark chocolate here with a little chocolate powder on top. Touch of tangy dark fruits. There isn’t a lot of dark malt! Chocolate aftertaste. Tasty and err quite chocolatey porter.
Tried
on 04 Mar 2014
at 12:51
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Cask (gravity) @ NWAF 2013, National Winter Ales Festival, The Venue, Sheridan Suite, Manchester, England.Clear medium to dark brown color with a average, open and frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, chocolate, vanilla. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet moderate and bitter with a long duration, vanilla, chocolate, roasted. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20130124]
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Mar 2014
at 08:55
5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottle. Light hazy tan. More of a musty, appley aroma than I was expecting. Fairly bland with light bitterness and vague fruits. Disappointing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Feb 2014
at 14:30
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask-conditioned at the Bag O’Nails, Bristol 14/2/2014 as "York Quaffing Ale". Amber with a slight, off-white head. Easy drinking, with some biscuity malts and a touch of tangerine before a moderately bitter finish. Fine.
Tried
from Cask
on 17 Feb 2014
at 09:35
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask-conditioned at the Beer Emporium, Bristol 14/2/2014. Black in colour with a decent, off-white head. Dominated by plain chocolate upfront, with a touch of sweetness, before some toasted malts and a dryish finish. I found the chocolate was a bit overpowering.
Tried
from Cask
on 17 Feb 2014
at 09:10
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Rook & Gaskill 26 Jan 13. Gyldengul. Lavt skum. Teppelacing. Sterk tung fruktaroma. Smaken litt tynn. Grapefrukt. Bra ut fra styrken.
Tried
on 16 Feb 2014
at 04:27
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4
Rook & Gaskill, York 26 Jan 13. Aprikosfarget. Veldig uklar. Lavt skum. Beskjeden søt aroma. Myk munnfølelse. Smaken litt tung fruktig.
Tried
on 16 Feb 2014
at 04:27