5.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6
330ml bottle from Hampers Food & Wine, Woodstock] Pours deep amber with a slightly dirty looking foamy off-white head. Moderate carbonation, but not too intrusive by lager standards. Smells of dusty chocolate. Initial flavour of chocolate develops through autumn leaves into bitterness with slight metallics. Quite a short finish. Overall an OK beer, but not one I’d especially return to.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Jan 2009
at 18:18
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
On tap on the Saturday of the Cheltenham National Cheese Festival. Poured a light golden colour with a slim white head. Clean and refreshing and at such a reasonably weak strength this could be quite gluggable, but I’m not sure that it would have enough to keep me enticed. It was more flavoursome than many of rivals in this sector but it lacked a real depth of flavour though as Doppelganger states such coldness can hide some of the hoppier characteristics which are definately there but just hidden somewhat. Absolutely fine.
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Oct 2006
at 15:58
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Had this at the National Cheese Festival, Montpellier, Cheltenham, 30-09-06. A light golden appearance, very crisp and refreshing with hoppy notes and some citrus tangs to it, quite dry and all in all not bad at all.
Tried
on 01 Oct 2006
at 01:46