Wickwar Wessex (prev Wickwar Wessex Brewing)
Client Brewer
in Bristol,
Bristol,
England 🏴
Associated Venue: White Lion Hotel (Wickwar)
Established in 1990
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Cask conditioned
Opaque black, no head. Aroma of chocolate and burned coffee beans. Roasted, medium bodied, chocolaty, some hints of sugar. Drinkable but not very complex. Lacks a good hop character. (8/4/6/3/13 3.4)
Bottle conditioned
Dark brown, not much head. Burnt, rosted malty. Chocolaty, roasted. reminds me about German dobbelbocks (like Celebrator). Dry aftertaste, malty, hops in the background. (7/4/7/4/15 3.7)
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
A black beer with a collapsing light brown head. The aroma is sweet with notes of alcohol and chocolate while the flavor is sweet with notes of alcohol, prunes, and roasted bread.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Sampled cask conditioned at Oliver Twist, Stockholm.
Mahogany colour. Neutral aroma. Sweet with chewy mouthfeel and some sugar, but not much else in the way of flavour - perhaps a bvague hint of smoke. Medium bitterness. A bit dull.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Sampled cask conditioned at Oliver Twist, Stockholm. Dark amber. Medium dry and lghtly grassy. Big chewy, rounded clean matiness that promises a lot. Flavour doesn't really follow up - lingering grass and salt with a sweaty bitter finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Brown color; poor head. Nice aroma: malt, caramel, rosted malt, molasses. Medium bodied, with a good maltiness, smooth (sweetish), low hopping, a bit more in the final, dry.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle conditioned
Cloudy amber color; exaggerated carbonation, giant head, creamy; turbolent perlage. Nice hop aroma, light, flowery; wood; carbonic acid. Not too heavy body, quite dry in the beginning, characterized by a woody sourness, leading to a balanced final, with quite a lot of hops (old hops?). Original for England, I found more examples of this one in Belgium and Switzerland.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Sampled cask conditioned at Akkurat, Stockholm, Sweden.
Pale amber. Hay aroma. Flowery and very sweet with good, clean solid malt profile and a honeyish finish. Normally I do not like bitters this sweet, but this one works.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Sampled cask conditioned at Akkurat, Stockholm, Sweden.
Nut brown. Fruity with obvious strawberry flavour. Sweet and solidly malty with salty, really bitter finish. Strawberries!?!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Sampled cask-conditioned at the Swan With Two Necks, Bristol...amber, fruity, hoppy, balanced bitter.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7
Amber coloured, slightly hazy. Fruity, well defined firm maltiness, medium bodied, balanced bitterness. A clean, yet complex and very enjoyable ale.
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