4.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
[Cask at Reading Beer Festival] Deep amber with a moderate loose white head. Toffee and biscuits with a little red apple and ginger. Rather sweet and cloying, like a GK beer with less hops. Not much to it really though. c7
Tried
from Cask
on 02 May 2013
at 15:10
3.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 2
Overall 2
Bottle. Nose is coffee, malt and a hint of cola. Apperance is dark brown with limited head. Flat. Taste is very shallow, Slight coffee, but a strong (and badly chosen) lemon note in the middle, leaving an acidy finish. The palate (as with all Hornbeam beers I have tried) is atrocious, watery, flat and thin. Overall a very poor beer. I am of the suspicion (having tried a few) Hornbeam simply can’t produce bottled beer worth drinking, I suspect the casks maybe better given other reviews. Avoid in the bottle.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Apr 2013
at 12:16
5.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 2
Overall 6
Bottle: Nose is toasted malts, touch of coffee, touch of cocoa. Appearance is cola, with little head. Taste, of slight hazelnut, grains, slight coffee, toast. Finish is lightly bitter and lasts moderately. Mouthfeel is awful, very watery and slightly flat. Passable dark bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Apr 2013
at 12:09
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 2
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Nose is light bitter, nettle, slightly soapy, slightly musty. Goldern amber in colour with no head at all. Taste is lightly bitter, notes of orange, honey, limited hops. Finish is a lightly nettle bitter. Mouthfeel is awful, no carbonation to speak of, slightly oily. Overall a decent session beer, but not one I would seek out again.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Apr 2013
at 11:25
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle 500ml.ABV: 4.2%. Clear medium amber colour with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is light to moderate malty, nutty, caramel, light fruity. Flavour is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average duration, nutty, thin. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20130126]
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Apr 2013
at 09:04
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
bottle at home ... from NWAF 2013 bottle haul ... copper ... thin white head ... soft sweet toffee nose ...sweet dry toffee roast ... ligth citrus woodyness ... long light dry citrus linger... some dark roasted sugers.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Mar 2013
at 12:50
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Gravity dispense at Merton Winter BF ’13. Lightly hazed blonde with a thin bubbly white head that dissipates to the edge leaving a thin film. Nose is citrus, pale malt, apricot, hint of piss. Taste comprises pale malt, touch of honey, lemon, floral tones. Medium bodied with moderate carbonation with light bitterness in the finish. OK - file under ’W’ for whelmed!
Tried
on 20 Feb 2013
at 13:08
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask, gravity, Merton Winter Beer Festival Feb 2013 w/e of Friday 15th, Saturday 16th February 2013 Pours gold with a slim white head, maybe a tiny bit of haze. I like Hornbeam beers but I found this to be a little lacking, it seemed rather too safe. It ticked the citrussy, reasonably bitter decent session golden ale boxes, but I expected a little more from Hornbeam and sadly this didn’t deliver it, ’could do better’ A6 A4 T6 P3 Ov12 3.1
Tried
from Cask
on 20 Feb 2013
at 11:26
5.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Cask at KRO in Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester. Golden and glowing with a malty character. Small head.
Tried
from Cask
on 07 Feb 2013
at 09:01
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Certainly has a chestnut appearance, quite an ordinary bitter in its character.
Tried
on 06 Feb 2013
at 13:29