5.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
500ml bottle. Pours dark orange with a thin head. Aroma is orange, bread and bitter coffee. Taste has some orange to start. Bitter burnt hop finish. A little vinegar.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Apr 2012
at 15:46
4.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 3
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
Brown 500ml bottle of Real Ale, sediment in the glass, so poured slowly during one of my ’random beer tasting evenings’ (Oct 2010) a month before its best before date. The beer was a big disappointment to be honest, I was really looking forward to reviewing my first beer from this newish brewery. It started out OK, the beer appeared bright and clean, a golden amber body with a good solid foaming white head on top. Some deep lacing hung around as the beer sank, so the condition was fine. The smell was of ’home-brew’, the sort of yeasty, not quiet finished aroma often found with mates keen to show off their beers (a few weeks too early). I thought the beer bland and uninteresting, which is a shame. The flavours seemed weak, there was a blend of hops and malt, with the hops being the major player as the mouth dried. It just didn’t float my boat.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Apr 2012
at 03:27
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
This beer is named after the late Mr W Mucklow, the last brewer in Bewdley (1912) before the new brewery opened a few years ago. The brown 500ml bottled conditioned beer was poured slowly into an Abbot Ale glass tankard (Aug 2011) some four months before it’s best before date. William Mucklow brewed a sweet dark Mild in his day, the recipe now also gone, this brew is trying to replicate that long forgotten formula. Very dark brown in colour, the thin tanned head soon left the scene and nothinmg sat on top of the moody looking brew. Just a hint of a necklace around the liquids edges. Sweet molasses and roasted/toasted malts hit the nose, chocolate esters coming through as the beer began to warm in the glass (this beer should not be refrigerated anyway). The taste/flavours were almost identical to the smells, with the chocolate becoming stronger as my taste buds became used to the intermix of flavours. Some suggestion of plums and mixed dried fruits (like in a rich cake) also appeared in the aftertaste. Good depth of body, the alcohol content sitting well within the brew and complimenting the flavours nicely. A lot better than the first beer I reviewed from this brewery (thank goodness).
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Apr 2012
at 08:15
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Sep 2011: Pint, bottled conditioned, poured into a UK pint sleeve. Named after a long country walking route. Light amber colour with a full white foaming head, looks good. The aroma is of citrusy hops, First Gold, Celiea and Fuggles being the reason. The taste is an easy mix of these aforementioned hops and pale malts, giving a session beer of great depth and flavour. Crisp and well carbonated, this is a well crafted brew with the 3.6% ABV tucked away nicely, I’m off to Bewdley before the end of the year, hope I can find some of this on cask.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Apr 2012
at 06:39
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
500ml Brown bottle, best before the end of May 2012: poured into my Abbot Ale glass tankard on 28 Feb 2012. Nice deep, dark Ruby red body, on top a creamy foaming head, both in colour and texture. The chocolate malts could clearly be picked up in the nose, not so the Maris Otter or Crystal that were also mentioned on the label. Add a plum pudding smell to the chocolate and the aroma is about right. The initial taste is chocolate malt sweet, but a large chunk of bitterness arrives soon afterwards with Fuggles and local Goldings giving their hop flavours full throttle. The body is rich and warming, even though the alcohol is only 4.6% ABV: this is a true winters beer, you need a roaring fire and snow outside to fully appreciate how good it is. Hints of liquorice appear as the beer warms in the glass to add that little extra flavour to an already tasty beer. I need to try this in cask form!
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Apr 2012
at 01:25
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
500ml bottle. Pours orange with a small head. Aroma is bready malt and some spicy hops. Taste has some apple to start with a bready malt, strong bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Apr 2012
at 12:09
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask (gravity) @ The 17th Reading Beer and Cider Festival 2011, Reading, Berkshire England.Clear medium amber orange colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, keller, dusty, toasted - caramel. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, fruity, honey notes ! Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20110429]
Tried
from Cask
on 25 Feb 2012
at 02:55
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle from Co-op Marston, Oxford, purchased & consumed 08.09.11 Pours gold with a white head. Some sweet malts and a little confectionary whiff on the nose. Quite soft in the mouth, bit of washing up liquid quickly fades to show some citrus and light fruitiness. Another Bewdley beer that finishes with a dryness and a lengthy though not too bitter streak. Not bad. A6 A4 T6 P3 Ov13 3.2
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Sep 2011
at 11:22
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle from Co-op Marston, Oxford, purchased & consumed 08.09.11 Pours warm gold/light amber with a white head. Good bitterness from the off, quite impressed with what the Fuggles and Goldings are capable off if enough are used in a standard English bitter as they have been used here. Bit dry towards the end and whilst quite simple without too many other pointers to remark on, its a damn decent bottled bitter. A6 A4 T7 P4 Ov13 3.4
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Sep 2011
at 11:07
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
500ml bottle. Pours gold with a medium head. Aroma is orange squash and some pale malt. Taste is straw throughout with some citrus on the aftertaste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Aug 2011
at 12:50