6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Medium, off-white, creamy head with larger bubbles. Hazy brown body. Powerful orangey, medicinal hop aroma. Bitter, meaty taste of medicine and hints of oranges with faintly roasted flavours in the background. Considerable alcohol taste in the aftertaste. Also quite a bit of sweetness. It’s good, but not great. The medicine detracts a bit from it. A very strange beer. Historically interesting. (0.5l bottle, first from the Pitfield Street shop, second time from City Beverage Co, London.)
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Jan 2006
at 10:30
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle. Black beer with an element of red and the head is light. The aroma is sour, herbal, and lightly dry and the flavour is watery, slightly sour, with a lighty dry finish. Overall a disappointing beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jan 2006
at 11:36
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle. Very pale wheat beer-esk appearance with a light head. The aroma is mildly citric and the flavour is dry with a hint of fruit. Overall a below average beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jan 2006
at 16:50
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle. Glazed, syrupy, frosty looking orange/amber beer with a fizzy head. The aroma is lightly fruity and the flavour is watery and slightly dry. Overall a disappointing beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Dec 2005
at 19:19
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Dark brown color, beige head. Malt aroma and taste, some rosted malt taste; yeast. Maybe it’s ok as a Porter, anyway not impressive.
Tried
on 18 Dec 2005
at 13:04
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Hazy amber color; creamy head. Nice herbal hop aroma. Some malt taste, medium caramel, strong bitterness and some hop aroma. Quite good, almost like an English IPA with the addiction of caramel.
Tried
on 18 Dec 2005
at 13:02
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle. Dark beer with a brown light bubbly head. The aroma is fruity, spiced and slightly vinous, the beer has a mulled nature to it. The flavour is mainly sour with a long dry finish. Overall a disappointing beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Dec 2005
at 03:03
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Dark amber color, small head. Some vegetables aroma (seems to be a constant in Pitfield’s beers). Some malt, still a bit dry when too cold, but vegetable (celery), that is not really pleasant; a bith grassy and herbal. If not for the celery, it is quite good, but we don’t feel the need for it.
Tried
on 17 Dec 2005
at 11:23
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Dark amber color. Strange smell: compost (?). Full malt taste, quite high bitterness, an impression of composting grass, no hop aroma. The ending bitterness is very long.
It loses the unpleasant compost touch after a few minutes, but keeps a vegetables touch.
It loses the unpleasant compost touch after a few minutes, but keeps a vegetables touch.
Tried
on 10 Dec 2005
at 17:56
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Cloudy dark amber color. Soma malt aroma and caramel. Malty, good structure, a lot of caramel, strong caramel finish, very bitter.
Tried
on 01 Dec 2005
at 11:13