3.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 4
Cask @ JDW Montgomery’s Tower, Shrewsbury. Pours clear ruby chestnut, creamy off white head. Quite thin and watery, some mirage-like nuttiness, light sweet echoes on the finish. 5p from every pint goes towards Midlands Air Ambulance, which is obviously very good, but the beer itself? Not a lot going on.
Tried
from Cask
on 22 May 2016
at 16:04
4.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
Cask @ Montys, Shrewsbury. Pours clear copper, off-white head. Aroma is light caramel. Taste is very light caramel, light berries, moderate hops, fairly bland and safe.
Tried
from Cask
on 16 May 2016
at 14:07
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6
Cask @ Liberty Bounds (JDW), Tower Hill EC3.Pours a slightly hazy pale amber red color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty weak caramel hoppy aroma. Fruity malty caramel flavor with weak hoppy hints. Has a fruity malty caramel finish with weak hoppy hints.
Tried
from Cask
on 23 Apr 2016
at 07:18
5.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask @ Montgomery’s Tower, Shrewsbury. Pours brown, little head. Aroma is lightly caramelised malt, vague hop. Taste is biscuit, caramel malt. One dimensional.
Tried
from Cask
on 11 Apr 2016
at 15:38
5.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottle from Appleyards Deli in Shrewsbury. This one is 4.4% so doubtful it’s ESB territory. Appearance - golden amber with a decent head. Nose - caramel biscuits. Taste - quite sickly sweet toffee. Light biscuits but general lack of bittering to balance it. Palate - close to medium bodied with a creamy texture and a finish that is just too sweet. Overall - too sweet to be very drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Apr 2016
at 15:52
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask @ Waterhouse, Manchester. Copper red with a glow, and a thin head. (It was poured by a new employee on his first day though). Tasty all the same, with a sticky-fruit sweetness, and a mix of malt and hop in its nose.
Tried
from Cask
on 30 Mar 2016
at 05:35
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Cask-conditioned at the Commercial Rooms (JDW), Bristol March 2016. Amber in colour, with a slight, white, head. Aroma of sweet malts with a hint of red berry fruits. Flavour was malty, with a hint of nuttiness, and a moderately bitter finish. OK.
Tried
from Cask
on 28 Mar 2016
at 11:11
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask @ The Lord Moon of the Mall, London. Clear dark amber with a small off-white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel and light nutty. Flavor is medium sweet and moderate bitter. Sweet and moderate bitter finish. 230316
Tried
from Cask
on 23 Mar 2016
at 16:13
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask handpull at Samuel Peto Spoons Folkestone, Dark brown red colour lasting cream head. Tasty enough dark red ale. Some sweet malt some bitter hops. Bit like an amber ale. Not much hop. Decent malts though. Good full mouth feel . Creamy. Fine.
Tried
from Cask
on 23 Mar 2016
at 13:15
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask at the Hope Tape (JDW), Reading. A hazy reddish copper colour with a thin white head; woody aroma with a trace of spice; sweet caramel taste with a woody body; and a sweet grapefruit finish. Rather muddled.
Tried
from Cask
on 22 Mar 2016
at 10:26