6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at the Hollybush, Stourport. Pours jet black with a small head. Aroma is dry roast and yeast. Taste is dry and yeasty with a roast finish. Touch of liquorice.
Tried
from Cask
on 08 Feb 2023
at 18:08
27/04/2019. NEEDLE & PIN, The Rushes, LOUGHBOROUGH, Leicestershire, England
Tried
on 02 Feb 2023
at 04:41
7.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Handpull cask at the Kings Head, Leicester. Dark brown, opaque with a small layer of khaki head. Aroma of chocolate malt, light liquorice. Taste is sweet, almost syrupy at first, with strong notes of plum and liquorice. This quickly gives way to an intense bitterness, with black malts and serious bittering hops. Notes of tar in the finish. Intense little fucker, this.
Tried
from Cask
on 25 Jan 2023
at 19:59
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask @ Navigation Tavern. Pours clear golden with a small head. Citrus, bread and grains. Smooth. Short bitter finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 16 Oct 2022
at 08:05
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask at Bird in Hand, Stafford. Pours lemon yellow with a small white head and good lacing. Not much of an aroma – just vaguely biscuits and lemon. In the mouth it is sweet and malty (also light and somewhat watery). Biscuits the main flavour, with some hints of citrus. Eventually there is a little floral hoppiness too. Finish is slightly dry. This is OK, but rather bland to say the least.
Tried
from Cask
on 04 Oct 2022
at 21:33
6/10
Tried
on 16 Feb 2022
at 15:54
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at the strugglers inn. Golden colour with a thick white head. Aroma and taste are malty sweet and citrus. Slight bitterness to finish. Smooth creamy body.
Tried
from Cask
at
The Strugglers Inn
on 22 Jan 2022
at 12:14
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask at Shrewsbury Arms, Stafford. Pours a pale gold with a small white head and good lacing. Not much of an aroma – just vaguely lemon and generic hops. Tropical fruit and lemongrass in the mouth. Pepper follows later, before finally some sweet malts appear. Finish is rather dry. Nice enough, but not a worldbeater.
Tried
from Cask
on 24 Nov 2021
at 16:03
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
Cask at the Pup and Duckling, Solihull. Poured a clear dark brown colour with a lasting frothy off white head. The aroma is roasty malt, light chocolate. The flavour is moderate liqourice bitter and sweet, with a smooth, rich, roasty, liqourice, light chocolate, light floral, woody hop bitter palate and a long bitter finish. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Cask
at
The Pup & Duckling
on 11 Nov 2021
at 20:22
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 9
Hand-pulled pint in the Anvil, Shifnal on 7th November 2021. Clean and clear golden body, white head. Light citrus nose and taste with a caramel/malty base for sweetness. Nice, easy going beer all round.
Tried
on 08 Nov 2021
at 07:11