Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Great dark golden, light amber coloured beer with a frothy white head which lasts and lasts. The aroma is almost purely hops. There is some sweetness which arises off the beer, but the hops are most noticeable. The taste is very clean and balanced. While the hops take the initial blunt of the taste, the malt shows it is balanced later on. The hops used are definately english, but the aftertaste is very smooth and refined. One of my favourite styles for drinking on any occasion, and this one is a good example to have. Definately worth trying, especially if you are an EPA or Bitter fan! I bought the 50 cL bottle at Beers of the World in Rochester, New York.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 3.5
Water-brown colour, white head. Smells like someone has vomitted in my glas. Quite flat flavour. little bit bitter (it becomes more and more bitter), hoppy too.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle Conditioned
Amber color. Nice hop aroma, classic for a bitter, would expect something more, from what they claim on the label. Quite dry; correctly balanced, just some metallic taste downsizing the evaluation. Bold bitter palate. Good bottled example, but I had better ones, more aromatic.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Brown,lasting off white head.Good carmel malt nose. A well balance bitter, slightly on the thin side
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Nice caramel and lightly fruity aroma, with a background of earthy and peppery hops. Flavor is surpringly clean, I was hoping for a more Englishy fruitiness, but it didn't appear even above 60 deg F. Nice herbal hop flavor and strong finishing bitterness. Very well balanced and flavorful, and goes down easy with a surpringly light mouthfeel - appropriately light carbonation. Pale amber color with large creamy stiff head and heavy lacing.
Oakes (33493) reviewed Old Man Ale (Bottle) from Coniston Brewing Co. 23 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Tawny brown; smoke, cherry, wood in the nose; earthy, brown sugary, complexly malt body, drying slightly in the finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Brakspear version
This chalky tasting pint isn’t really all that bad, but they need to get off this ’champion beer of england’ marketing kick. there are a lot of champion beers of britain, and this really is not one of the better ones.