6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
500ml beer. Pours dark orange brown with a small head. Aroma is bready caramel with some garlic and vegetable notes. Taste is sweet with light garlic to start. Bready caramel finish.
Tried
on 02 Jun 2019
at 20:01
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask (handpump) @ GBBF 2017, [ Great British Beer Festival 2017 ], London Olympia, Hammersmith Road, London, England W14 8UX.[ As Yates Islander ].Clear medium amber colour with a average, frothy - fizzy and open, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, sweet malt, caramel, pale malt, light nutty, light earthy. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average to long duration, fruity malt, pale malt, caramel, sweet malt, light earthy, light nutty. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20170809] 5-3-6-3-12
Tried
from Cask
on 14 Apr 2019
at 14:59
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
2/3/2019. Bottle from Ocado. Pours clear dark amber with a small off-white head. Aroma of malt, toffee, fruit and possibly the lightest hint of garlic though it may just have been the power of suggestion making me think there might have been! Medium sweetness, light to moderate bitterness. Moderate body, slight oily texture, soft carbonation. Not at all what was expected, it was quite an ok ale but offered more gimmick than garlic.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Mar 2019
at 17:33
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
500ml Bottle - Golden with a white head. Citrus and some grassy notes in the aroma. Lemon, hay, grass and faint hints of orange and grapefruit. Quite dry but refreshing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jun 2018
at 17:58
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Bottle from LazyPyro (European Local Swap). Many thanks! Clear dark amber colour, white foam. Nose of bread, toast, caramel, very very light garlic notes. Taste is rather bitter dry, grassy. A boring bitter, not a lot of garlic to detect.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Feb 2018
at 07:58
5.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
500ml bottle. Clear dark amber colour with a beige head. Aroma of malts and mild citrusy hops, and the most subtle suggestion of garlic. Taste is malty, light sweet, mild fruits, not really getting much garlic from this at all, which is probably a good thing, there's a hint of it in the aftertaste which does linger a bit. Light-medium bodied, average carbonation. Overall this isn't particularly interesting, and with the lack of garlic it's not even that novel, just a bog standard bitter to be honest. It sounds like the garlic has been dialled back substantially based on earlier reviews mentioning how strong it was. Very overpriced.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Feb 2018
at 15:52
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle that Mum & Dad shared - cheers! An amber brew - much darker than I expected, for some reason I assumed it would be a golden colour. It's pleasingly sweet and malty up front. Roasted garlic grows in the finish. It's actually quite well executed; the garlic used does as actually go pretty well with the underlying beer. The only problem is that after a beer I don't really want a lingering garlic aftertaste. So in summary, it's an interesting novelty beer, and one that's been designed quite well, but it's probably a concept that I never need or want to return to.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Oct 2017
at 13:42
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle from Delilah's, a handy but overpriced delicatessen in Leicester. Been looking for this for a while, and despite the expense went for it. Ruddy brown, clear with almost no head. Very little aroma as well: a touch of garlic stands out against the standard malty bitter notes. I really like the taste though: just a touch of garlic shining through the basic caramelly bittersweetness. Nicely carbonated palate. Verdict: it's a fairly ordinary bitter, lifted by a surprisingly subtle savoury garlic note. Judging from previous rates, they may have tweaked the recipe. At any rate, it was enjoyable enough.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Sep 2017
at 16:55
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
8th August 2017
GBBF Day 1. Cask. Clear amber beer, small pale cream colour head. Palate is light dry and has reasonable carbonation. Smooth light malts, some caramel. Ripe fruits. Little citrus peel. Dry finish. Standard stuff.
GBBF Day 1. Cask. Clear amber beer, small pale cream colour head. Palate is light dry and has reasonable carbonation. Smooth light malts, some caramel. Ripe fruits. Little citrus peel. Dry finish. Standard stuff.
Tried
from Cask
on 27 Aug 2017
at 11:22
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Cask at GBBF’17, day one, 08/08/17. Rich amber with a light beige cap. Nose is biscuit, toffee, earthy, straw. Taste comprises leafy hop, spice, straw, biscuit crumble. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, drying close. Ok bitter.
Tried
from Cask
on 20 Aug 2017
at 03:34