Beertalk (16424) reviewed Shingle Bay from Salcombe Brewery Co. 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
Cloudy yellow with a small white head. Aroma of grassy hops with some sulphur. Grassy sweet flavour with sulphur. Decent bitter finish.
Downender (11275) reviewed Quercus - Prospect from Salcombe Brewery Co. 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Cask-conditioned at the Royal Oak, Bath 18/07/09. Quercus produced a festival special called "Julian House" for the RO, but the descriptions here look very similar and the ABV was the same, so I am rating it here. Copper coloured with a slight, off-white head. Fruity malts, with a hint of citrus and earthy hops, ending bitter. Ok.
jgb9348 (11828) reviewed Quercus - QPA from Salcombe Brewery Co. 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Hazy, chunky copper and brown coloured body with a super-thin slightly off-white head; a bunch of sediment in this one, and it pours still, but has a bit of carbonation, so it seems. Aroma of apples, nuts, caramel, toffee, light hops, roasted malt, yeast and some peanut butter - a ton of various smells in this one! Medium-bodied; Strong astringent hoppiness in the taste mellows out to a nutty finish with some of the caramel and toffee tastes. Aftertaste shows a lot of metallic hop bitterness with yeast and perhaps some more hops. Still in the taste and throughout - no carbonation at all it doesn’t seem. Actually, it seems like it’s from the cask, but it’s poured from a bottle, and on the other side of the Atlantic! I sampled this 500 mL bottle purchased from the Utobeer Market Stall in Borough (London), England on 29-November-2008, sampled at home in Washington on 18-April-2009.
Anders37 (30296) reviewed Shingle Bay from Salcombe Brewery Co. 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cask @ GBBF 2008. Pours a slightly hazy pale golden color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty hoppy aroma. Fruity malty hoppy citrus flavor. Has a fruity malty hoppy citrus finish with some bitterness in the aftertaste.
Fin (18365) reviewed Shingle Bay from Salcombe Brewery Co. 17 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle, picked up from the Vale Brewery, 25-10-08, consumed 26-10-08 Pours golden with white head. Fairly predictable that this was going to be fruity, bit citrusy, tangy, hoppy and bitter, no problem with that at all, its just that it was like so many others of this ilk, distinctly average and afraid to be different.
fonefan (84534) reviewed Shingle Bay from Salcombe Brewery Co. 17 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Cask @ Great British Beer Festival, GBBF 2008, Earls Court, London, England SW5.Clear light to medium yellow orange color with virtually none head. Aroma is moderate malty, moderate hoppy, citrus, moderate yeasty, horse blanket. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. (060808)
Harrisoni (26233) reviewed Quercus - QPA from Salcombe Brewery Co. 17 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Angry fist of Santa tasting at Chris_o’s. Hazy orange gold, thin off whtie head. Everyone says it’s diacetyl, I got some popcorn. I quite liked it.
Harrisoni (26233) reviewed Shingle Bay from Salcombe Brewery Co. 17 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Bottle from Utobeer. Essence of a summer’s day on the label, drunk on the first day of winter. Hazy gold, thin lasting white head. Bit of butter/toffee on aroma. After that it’s a pretty good, nice sharp hop bitter. Some earthiness, quite a poorish BCA beer though, yeah, definite diacetyl. Then earthy pale ale and then decent hop.
MiP (20366) reviewed Quercus - Origin from Salcombe Brewery Co. 17 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cask, 3.9% at GBBF08. Hazy dark amber colour. Good roasted nut flavour. Grainy aftertaste, but with a malty and vinous touch.
RuneBlix (26316) reviewed Shingle Bay from Salcombe Brewery Co. 17 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Third pint, hand-pulled at The Bar Nouveau, GBBF 08
Patchwork on top of a bronze coloured body. Yet another fruity British Golden ale with moderate amount of citrus hops melded with a touch of malt (07.08.2008).