5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Cask-conditioned at the Herefordshire & Worcestershire beeriodical, the Seven Stars, Bristol March 2013. Amber with a slight, off-white head. A forgettable bitter with slight citrus notes and a malty edge.
Tried
from Cask
on 30 Mar 2013
at 01:41
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Dark copper colour. Rich malty aroma with some hints of dried fruits. Very malty flavour with some chocolatey notes and a light hoppy dryness in the finish.
Tried
on 28 Nov 2012
at 13:49
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask, gravity at the Beer Tent, Bromyard Folk Festival, Bromyard, Herefordshire Friday 7th September 2012 Pours gold, really nice beer. Bitter and hoppy, though not too bitter, very good session beer which I would gladly return to. fresh, clean tasting golden ale, good stuff. Ended up buying a pizza oven whilst drinking this so my notes rather tailed off I’m afraid. A7 A4 T7 P3 Ov13 3.4
Tried
from Cask
on 09 Sep 2012
at 05:39
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Nutty, bready yeast, malt aroma. Amber with a thin skiff of bubbles. Bready yeast and musty hops flavor. Light body, flat carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jul 2012
at 15:08
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Slightly sour nutty barley malt aroma. Dark amber color with thin film of head. Mild barley malt and moderately bitter herbal hops flavor. Very different - not your typical ESB.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Jul 2012
at 20:54
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
July 2010, I wrote this: This is the first of four different bottles (all 500ml) I bought from this brewery while in the lovely city of Worcester a couple of weekends ago. The beer should have been opened before the end of March, but I drank it in the first week of July. The beer is bottle conditioned: Poured into an ’Old Speckled Hen’ vase shaped pint glass. The beer was cloudy and a pale yellow in colour, really dull yellow to be honest. A snow white head sat on top. The aroma given off was mostly of hops, a bitterness and suggestions of sourness (Belgian style) mixed together to give an interesting and different smell to most UK beers. The taste was fairly green (meaning young and not ready), but the name suggests it would taste that way. I found it fresh, crisp and obviously hoppy, most enjoyable. It was a little lively, but not overly fizzy, just a bit over excited to get out the bottle.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Apr 2012
at 06:45
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
19 Nov 2010: Bottle conditioned, 500ml, poured into an Abbot Ale tankard. The second beer from this brewery I’ve reviewed from the set of four I purchased some months ago. The beer was eager to get out the bottle so some sediment managed to get into my tankard, the body was therefore somewhat cloudy. Mid-amber in colour, misty but not spoilt. On top a huge bubbley head of white foam. A great burst of yeast esters hit the nose, followed by some hop and dry forest floor (nuts and pine cones) smells. The taste is of fresh hops and yeast, malts arriving mid-mouthfeel. The rear label claims "Full bodied with a nutty flavour, a beer from the past". There is a nut undertone if you are given the suggestion and try and find one. Lively and sharp, a pleasant beer from start to finish. This was the 4th English beer in a ’random beer tasting evening’ and went down very well with some ’Cheese with no name’ (a kind of bree/camembert).
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Apr 2012
at 05:10
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
This is a new rate from 11th Dec 2015 and a whole lot better than what I wrote in 2011. Just a damn sight better than the obviously infected/shitty bottle from before. This bottle is malty, well carbonated and nicely spiced, clean looking and generally worth drinking: pleased I gave the beer another chance. New higher score. Bottle conditioned (500ml bottle), best before the end of April 2011. Drank and reviewed during a random British Beer Tasting Evening at my house during Jan 2011. Poured into an ’Abbot Ale’ pint glass tankard: Murky ruby red with no head at all. The smell and taste are very intertwined, sweet malts, nutmeg, cinamon and raisins, strange. Poor carbonisation, almost flat and likeless, stale like. Very disappointed to be honest.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Apr 2012
at 08:15
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle conditioned, 500ml, best before the end of Apr 2011, drank and reviewed 18th Jan 2011. The beer was poured into an Abbot Ale glass tankard: bright amber body, clear with minute bubbles rising up the beer to the impressive off-white foaming head. Some good lacing produced as the beer level sank down the tankard. The smell is malty, with hints of yeast esters and fruity hops. The taste is a nice mix of bittering hops and sweetening malts. Really well balanced, the alcohol content hardly noticed, which indicates a good beer to me. Only in the latter stages of the mouthfeel does the alcohol begin to rear its head.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Apr 2012
at 07:49
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
500 ml Brown bottle, best before Oct 11. Finally got round to opening this bottle conditioned bitter when on holiday down on the Suffolk coast (July 2011). It had sat for 5 hours in the caravan fridge (after a long car journey) but the beer still gushed out of the bottle, bringing bits of sediment with it, very lively indeed. The body was a light amber clour, slightly cloudy because of the excitment of the beer to hit my glass. A huge off-white head sat on top of the brew and loads of bubbles could be seen rising through the body (no sediment on view, but it did give the beer a haze). Small hop aroma, with a touch of malt, otherwise no smell. The beer was a gentle blend of hops and malts, nothing outstanding, but agreeable enough. A little thin in body strenght, but it is only 3.7% ABV, so that’s allowed. Overall, just an average English Bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Apr 2012
at 01:25