6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Pours a golden colour with an off-white head. Malty and floral aroma with hints of citrus. Malty flavor with lots of bitter hoppiness. Sweet malty finish with a bitter aftertaste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jul 2006
at 16:33
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Bottle picked up in Waitrose, Witney, July 10th 2006. Maybe I liked this one so much because I tried it imediately after two unimpressive lager style beers, anyway I really liked this. Golden in colour with a small white head great hoppy, citrusy aroma and a wonderful hoppy taste which had a great lingering bitter finish. I don’t know whether they have changed this significantly since it was added to this database but there is a label change and unless I am going mad I thought it said Styrian Hops.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jul 2006
at 02:05
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
500 ml bottle, Best before 29 Dec 06. Happy beer smell when opened makes a good first impression. Deep ruddy brown in color shows light through the glass well. Taste, though, is kind of standard. Perhaps I’m too used to American iterations of the style, which would involve more bitterness. As it is, a pleasant English session beer. Although borrowing into a glass, I do find some more fresh hops taste. Just want to get through whatever Youngs beers I can find before the brewery shuts down.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jul 2006
at 22:55
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Nose of malt, raisins, and plums; cherry-walnut color with not much head; flavor features malts, raisins, and achocolate note. A tiny bit of hops show in the finish.
Tried
on 23 Jun 2006
at 18:48
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
0.5 L bottle, "Best before" 29 Dec 06. Better get to those Young’s beers before the original brewery closes, I think. Besides, we’re close to finally selling our house; I want to buy a big beer and DRINK it, not cellar it (okay, so as a barley wine, it’s kind of puny, but you know.) In a small goblet, pours a proper barley wine garnet red, about two fingers of foam. Smell is okay, but a little thin. Taste comes in the same way, though. Pretty thin on malts. Really not much more than an amber ale, and a bit soured at that. Slight touch of pear, perhaps.There is a big bitterness that’s above and beyond the usual English ale. A bit sticky, but lacking those complex qualities they claim. Could benefot from more alcohol presence. Bitter finish is good enough though. This is an import bottle of course, but for once it seems pretty fresh, so should be as the brewer intended.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Jun 2006
at 21:56
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Pours deep ruby into a snifter. Microbubble head leaves no lacing as it slowly recedes. Slighly sour earth notes. Creamy sweet with a bittersweet metallic finish.
Tried
on 23 May 2006
at 19:25
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Dark ruby red with white head. The smell is dark fruits and caramel. Very strong smell. However the texture is quite thin. The aftertaste is sweet and light bitter. Felling a bit of the warmth from the alcohol!
Tried
on 19 May 2006
at 03:20
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle 0,5l at Morpeth Arms London SW1 27 Apr 06. Dark buby read colour. A large head lasting for a couple of minutes. Medium bodied. Sweet bitter aftertaste - and the strength comes through. Went well together with a Ploughmans Lunch.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 May 2006
at 11:06
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Poured deep copper in color with a light brown head. Aroma is a mix of alcohol and malts. Light aroma overall. Nice even flavor of sweet malts and hop flavor. The aftertaste is sweet malts of caramel and toffee with hop flavor followed by a slight hop bitterness combine with some grainy malts at the very end. A bit more hops than the standard English Barelywine. Which is what I like.
Tried
on 12 May 2006
at 22:23
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Amber colour with a small off-white head. Fruity malty aroma with some hints of caramel. Flavor is malty with some hints of caramel. A little thin. Aftertaste is malty with some bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Apr 2006
at 10:55