5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask at Bird In Hand, Stafford. Pours a dark copper with a small off-white head. Malt and hops in the aroma. Mouthfeel has sweet malts to the fore along with nuts and orchard fruits. Finish is sweet and fruity. A good session beer.
Tried
from Cask
on 11 Nov 2021
at 23:30
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at Mr Grundy’s, Derby. Pours a bright yellow with a sizeable white head and good lacing. Has an aroma of summer fruits, chiefly apples. Texture is rather watery, and flavours in the mouth are dominated by malts and sharp crisp apples. There are hints of general citrus too. After all that, the finisah is surprisingly bitter. Quaffable, but rather one dimensional.
Tried
from Cask
on 11 Jul 2021
at 17:25
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Cask at the Queens Head, Stourbridge. Pours gold with a small head. Aroma is tangy, bready apple. Taste has watery bready malt.
Tried
from Cask
on 20 Sep 2020
at 07:18
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Cask at Mr Grundy’s, Derby Pours a very dark reddish-brown with a small beige head and good lacing. Has a distinct aroma of malts and vanilla. In the mouth the texture is creamy with low carbonation. Flavours are mainly malts and treacle with some traces of biscuit. Some fruit comes through in the finish. This is rather nice – possibly my favourite Mr Grundy beer,
Tried
from Cask
on 30 Aug 2020
at 18:03
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at Mr Grundys, Derby Pours a deep chestnut brown with a tight white head and good lacing. Not a particularly distinctive nose – just some vague aroma of oranges and chestnuts. In the mouth it starts off as caramel briefly, before passing on to mainly oranges with hints of nuts and berries. Finish is quite sharp. Quite nice – one of their better ones.
Tried
from Cask
on 23 Aug 2020
at 19:33
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
ORIGINAL RATING – AUGUST 2020 Cask at Standing Order, Derby Pours almost black with minimal head. Nose hads malts, molasses and a hint of milk. In the mouth it is fruity, with blackcurrants to the fore plus malts and traces of dark fruits and chocolate Has a very watery texture though. Finish is more dark fruits. Too much blackcurrant and not enough stout character. (was 6:2:6:3:10 = 2.7) RERATE MARCH 2022 : cask at Mr Grundys, Derby. Pours almost black with small foamy cream head. There’s a vaguely sweet aroma here, with lactose and dark fruits. Roasted malts and berry fruits in the mouth, plus some liquorice coming through later. Tastes a lot better than my original review would suggest – not the first time I’ve had to alter a review I’ve originally made at the Standing Order !
Tried
from Cask
on 16 Aug 2020
at 22:04
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at Mr Grundys, Derby Pours a reddish shade of “bitter brown” with a creamy white head and good lacing. A subtle aroma of bready malts. In the mouth the main taste is dark fruits, but also malts, raspberries and spices – though not very pronounced for any of them. Finish is bitter and spicy. Overall, a bit bland, but quite nice. More an Irish Red than a Bitter by the way.
Tried
from Cask
on 02 Aug 2020
at 14:25
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Cask at Lych Gate, Wolverhampton. Has a nose that is strongly lemon – is that good or bad ? Pours a very pale yellow with a good white head. The mouth has an oily smoothness with hints of lemon and lime. Finish is bitter lemon. Not a bad beer, but nothing special. Wouldn’t by any stretch call it a bitter either.
Tried
from Cask
on 27 Sep 2019
at 12:06
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask (gravity) @ Newport Ale House, 24A Holyrood Street, PO30 5AZ Newport, Isle of Wight, England.[ As Mr Grundy's Machine Gunner ].Clear medium amber orange colour with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, sweet malt, caramel, fruity malt, fruity. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average duration, sweet malt, caramel, sugary malt, fruity malt, fruity. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is flat. [20190621] 6-3-7-3-14
Tried
from Cask
on 14 Jul 2019
at 08:55
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask gravity at Kent & East Sussex BF 2019. Clear pale gold colour lasting white. Some citrus . Decent condition. Some decent hops. Ok
Tried
from Cask
on 15 Jun 2019
at 12:26