6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Apperance; a bit of dark red with a foamy head. A fruity aroma with also a taste of hops, with a bitter aftertaste. Good!
Tried
on 04 Mar 2009
at 16:25
4.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
[Cask at The William Robert Loosley, High Wycombe, 1/3/2009] 5/3/5/3/12 I hated the bottled Ruddles County I had, and was therefore relkuctant to try this. However, the only real ales available in this ’Spoons were this or Abbot (sort it out Mr Martin!), so reluctantly tried this. Pours a slightly hazy amber-straw colour with a thin, foamy white head. Slight flavour of malt, fruit and caramel. Little bitterness, but smooth and easy-to-drink. A pleasant enough but instantly forgettable session bitter. [Re-rate, cask at the William Robert Loosley (JDW), 13/9/2010] 5/3/4/2/8 Thin and watery. A little malt, a little caramel and a lingering dusty hop bitterness. Archetypal "boring brown bitter".
Tried
from Cask
on 02 Mar 2009
at 07:32
4.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
Cask at the Hope Tap (JDW), Reading. Amber with a thin loose off-white head; faint caramel aroma; thin and watery with a sweet biscuity malt flavour, and a stale bitterness to finish. Disappointing.
Tried
from Cask
on 24 Feb 2009
at 09:18
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Re-rate 11/16: Bottle sample at a tasting at Max’s place. Thanks troubles. Clear copper. Aroma of malt, toast, minerals, dust. Sweetish flavor, malty, with a bit of caramel, toast, minerals, graininess, and bitterish earthy hops. Medium-bodied. 5/3/6/3/11=2.8
Bottle sample at a tasting. Clear amber color. Earthy hops, a bit of flowers and a bit of caramel in the aroma. Sweetish caramelly flavor with nice juicy, rather earthy, bitterness with some citric notes. Medium-bodied. Pleasant. Later update: now I feel a bit of graininess in the aroma. 7/3/7/3/14=3.4
Bottle sample at a tasting. Clear amber color. Earthy hops, a bit of flowers and a bit of caramel in the aroma. Sweetish caramelly flavor with nice juicy, rather earthy, bitterness with some citric notes. Medium-bodied. Pleasant. Later update: now I feel a bit of graininess in the aroma. 7/3/7/3/14=3.4
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Jan 2009
at 14:36
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Half pint, fresh and kicking cask, hand pulled at Aikman’s Cellar Bar in St Andrews. Deep, dark amber body under a small skinny strip of foam. Malt-fruity smell. Hints of caramel malts that works pretty well together with an underlying throughout going bitterness. Dry and easy to drink [04.11.2008].
Tried
from Cask
on 14 Dec 2008
at 07:29
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
aroma: honey, sweet malts, chocolate. appears amber, smooyh thick not that large head. flavor is strange. toffee/chocolate, smooth, alc or hops make a rather brutal bitter end.
Tried
on 29 Nov 2008
at 21:26
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at Cockney Pub. Creamy white good mostly lasting head. Dark yellow colour. Light malty and moderate hoppy nice grassy aroma. Great moderate bitter flavor. Lots of lemon-notes. Average moderate bitter nice finish. Oily palate. Nice bitter.
Tried
from Cask
on 23 Oct 2008
at 09:37
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Clear amber with no head. Sweet malty aroma with caramellish notes. Sweet flavour with toasted malt, caramel and fruity notes. Mild bitter finish.
Tried
on 14 Sep 2008
at 13:02
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
500ml Bottle - Amber in colkour. Vanilla and rhubabe in the aroma. Sweet rhubarb taste with some vanilla notes and light malt. Has the potential to be good but this is rather sickly.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Aug 2008
at 02:58
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Bottle. Clear amber with plenty of off white head. Distinctive aroma, predominantly vanilla. medium body with plenty of carbonation. Flavour predominantly rhubarb and vanilla with slightly bitter fiinish. Interesting beer and very drinkable, altough the confectionary taste was rather unusual.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jun 2008
at 20:00