Subsidiaries
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Cask@Reading Beer Festival 2012. Very deep ruby colour with a small brown bubbly head. Aroma is liquorice, ginger, some slight roasted notes as well. Flavour is ginger, roasted malts, dark fruits and some liquorice. Rather fullbodied for being 5 %.
Tried
from Cask
on 21 Jun 2012
at 01:20
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask@Reading Beer Festival 2012. Pale nut brown colour with a small off-white head. Aroma is caramel, some nuttyness, mild wood and some quite fruity sweetness. Flavour is rather similar in a nice balance. Long bitter fruity/floral finish with some mild toffeeish notes.
Tried
from Cask
on 20 Jun 2012
at 21:33
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask at the Bell, Waltham St Lawrence. An attractive deep ruby red in colour, almost black, with a thin ring of beige head; aroma of earthy malts with perhaps a touch of smoke; rather thinly bodied, but with lots of grainy, bready, nutty, malts giving a slight sweetness; and a very gentle earthy bitterness to finish. A really good mild.
Tried
from Cask
on 15 Jun 2012
at 10:48
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at the Bell, Waltham St Lawrence. Golden amber with a thin white head; light, grainy, malt aroma; sweet crisp grainy flavour with a touch of citrus; and a dry biscuity finish with some orange fruit and leafy hops giving a pleasant bitterness. A nice summer bitter.
Tried
from Cask
on 07 Jun 2012
at 13:28
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask@Reading Beer Festival 2012. Deep ambery brown colour with a minor head. Aroma is fruits, nutty, mild roasted notes along with some toffee. Flavour is quite similar in a nice balance. Mild nuttyness, toffee and caramel in the finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 05 Jun 2012
at 22:09
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask@Reading Beer Festival 2012. Deeo ambery black colour, small off-white head. Aroma is roasted, fruity, toffeeish and mild berries as well. Flavour is wood, fruits, some tart wood, mild liquorice and ashes as well as some slight coffee.
Tried
from Cask
on 20 May 2012
at 01:33
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask@Reading Beer Festival 2012. Quite much pitch black colour, with a small brown bubbly head. Aroma is roasted malts, some liquorice, quite nice vanilla along with mild ripe fruits. Flavour is quite much the same in a nice balance. Very pleasant and quite full-bodied as well.
Tried
from Cask
on 20 May 2012
at 01:09
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask-conditioned at Bucks and Berks Beeriodical, Seven Stars, Bristol May 2012. Deep gold with a slight white head. Light, orange fruits, a touch of malt sweetness, and dry, citrus hop finish. Fine.
Tried
from Cask
on 15 May 2012
at 12:24
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask@Reading Beer Festival 2012. Black colour, small off-white head. Aroma is roasted malts, toffee and some mild vegetably and spicy notes. Flavour is the same along with a mild spicy burn to it. Balanced, and not ruining the beer with the spicyness.
Tried
from Cask
on 15 May 2012
at 09:46
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
cask at reading ... deep black ... no head ... soft roast malts ... light fruit hop nose ... soft roast ... deep flavours ... light pine
Tried
from Cask
on 05 May 2012
at 05:25