5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Pours a copper color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity spicy and slightly alcoholic aroma with some hints of caramel. Sweetish malty caramel and dark fruit flavor. Has a sweetish malty caramel finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jan 2010
at 22:52
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Cask gravity at Pig’s Ear BF 09. Really not htat good, some cereal, some peach fruit in the mouth. Odd.
Tried
from Cask
on 28 Dec 2009
at 05:54
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Cask gravity at Pig’s Ear BF 09. Deep ruby lasting thin white head. Sour aroma. Really good, lovely sour old ale. Not convinced it’s 13.5%. Malts are there but not big sweet and all over the place like they could be. It’s great. Some malt, some dryness. It’s really good and very late in the day too.
Tried
from Cask
on 28 Dec 2009
at 01:58
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Mr Lawrence’s wine merchants, Brockley. Pours a rusty brown with no head. Low carbonation. Some coffee aromas as well as treacle, bubblegum, bit earthy with some floral notes. Flavours of smoke, wood, chocolate, biscuits. Finishes sweet and malty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Dec 2009
at 10:58
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle from Mr Lawrence Wine Merchants, Brockley. Pours a cloudy amber colour with no head whatsoever. Seems a bit flat if truth be told. Aromas of sour cherries, tangerines, barley, grapefruit. Quite a sour/fruity nose. Flavours of toffee, citrus, slight sourness, vinous, ginger, some herbs. Moderate alcohol burn. Finishes malty and sweet with a warming alcohol feel. Not too bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Dec 2009
at 09:16
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle 500ml.[ Trade by cgarvieuk ]. Clear light to medium amber color with a average, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, caramel, vintage malt, light roasted, dark berry - dried fruit, licorice notes. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20091114]
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Dec 2009
at 04:54
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
7th September 2007. On tap at the Chappel Beer Fest. Very dark beer. Fruity and a little sour. Complex, not bitter. Dry finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Nov 2009
at 15:30
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6
7th September 2007. On tap at the Chappel Beer Fest. Light crisp palate. Sharp fruity hops that aren’t bitter.
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Nov 2009
at 15:23
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6
7th September 2007. On tap at Chappel Beer Fest. Opaque very dark brown ale. Lively mix of sour fruitiness and a dry bitterness that lingers in the aftertaste.
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Nov 2009
at 15:20
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask (handpump) @ GBBF 09, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.Clear dark brown color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige to light brown head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, burnt, coffee dusty, smoke - peat. Flavor is moderate to light light heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20090804]
Tried
from Cask
on 28 Nov 2009
at 02:29