7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle at the hotel in Edinburgh. Pours deep brown-black with a large, frothy beige head. Lovely aroma with rich smoked malt character, some cocoa, earth. Light sweet flavor with further dark, smoked malts, nips of peat, burnt herbs, crispy bacon. Light to medium bodied with fine to average carbonation. Well balanced finish with more smoke, semi-sweet chocolate, dark berries and scorched earth. Very good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jan 2015
at 18:06
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle at home... Golden yellow amber... Big white head... Soft sweet floral fruit... Lught custardy orange nose... Odd floral sweet fruits... Soft toffee... Little too sweet
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jan 2015
at 09:40
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
330ml bottle from drinkmonger. Pours dark brown, thin beige head. Aromas of smoke, light chocolate. Taste has more smokiness, bonfire-like. Short finish. Ok.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Nov 2014
at 11:18
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
330ml bottle (bottle conditioned): BBD Sep 15, poured into a ’Good People’ (Birmingham, Alamabama) badged pint sleeve, to make it feel like a true American Pale Ale, at home on 31 Oct 14. This beer was shared with no one. Lager like in looks in the body, clear golden with carbonation bubbles rising to a full, deep white blanket of foam. Nose and taste are hop sentric, with a bitterness from the start. Can not say it erupts like a volcano, but it certainly has a hop kick throughout and whatever malt content there is has been melted by the hop lava. I liked it, my sweet tooth aside, it floated my boat.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Oct 2014
at 16:19
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6
Bottle at home. Pours reddish copper, nose is fruity, toffee, taste is a bit flat.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Oct 2014
at 13:16
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle at home. Pours hazy reddish brown, nose is toffee, spicy, taste is peppery, sweet.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Oct 2014
at 13:15
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask at Cloisters. Pours dark brown, nose is chocolate, coffee, taste is similar, dry.
Tried
from Cask
on 14 Oct 2014
at 12:54
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle at home. Pours golden, nose is floral, citrus, taste is dry, sweet, floral.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Oct 2014
at 12:53
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle at 1780. Pours deep brown, nose is light roasted malts, taste is light chocolate, sweet.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Oct 2014
at 12:51
6/10
Tried
on 19 Sep 2014
at 22:25