6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Hand-pulled pint in The Pheasant, Wellington (Shropshire) on 3rd May 2014. Pours an amber to old gold colour with a good head. Fine blend of flavours but not much of an aroma: slightly maltier than hoppy, with a mild fruit undertone. Another easy drinking beer from this brewery, nothing to set the world alight, but more than decent, just needs to work on the aroma side of things a little.
Tried
on 04 May 2014
at 00:36
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask @ Winter Beer Festival, Prince of Wales, Shrewsbury. Pours hazy dark brown with a good cream head. Surprisingly rich with a fruit cake tang, medium body. My first from Rowton and it doesn’t disappoint.
Tried
from Cask
on 24 Feb 2014
at 00:58
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draft at Pigs Ear Beer Festival 2013 - London. Pours clear orange-gold with a light, white foam head. Fair stuff, some dry orange, a bit of wood, hay. Light in body with fine carbonation. Dry citrus in the finish with more light wood and dirty hay. Meh, alright.
Tried
from Draft
on 07 Jan 2014
at 09:41
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Hand-pulled pint during the carol singing on 21st Dec 2013 in The Crown Inn, Oakengates. The name is a play on ’Halo’ as the O is above (and slightly behind) the Ale on the pumpclip. Guess the beers colour! Correct, it’s golden and the halo above is a thin white one. No noticeable Christmassy bits within the nose or taste, so not sure what Jim Preston is up too with this: dry and hop bitter throughout with both the hop bitterness and dryness getting stronger towards the end of each sip. Wish I’d read the pumpclip in more detail now, it might have mentioned which hops etc were used and if it was supposed to be spiced in some way. Anyway I enjoyed it even if I was expecting something more malty and richer.
Tried
on 23 Dec 2013
at 08:10
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Gravity dispense at Pigs Ear, 03/12/13. Very lightly hazed golden amber with thin white edgeing. Nose is biscuit malt, sugars, caramel, summer fruits. Taste comprises bread dough, fruit loaf, earthy tones, sugars. Medium bodied, moderate carbonation, dry closure with light bitterings. So so, drinkable if ’whelming’ GB affair.
Tried
on 19 Dec 2013
at 13:33
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at the pig’s ear fest 2013. Aroma is dry woody roast with a touch of choc. Dark chesnut red pour with no head. Flavour us fruity English berry esters and dry smooth woody roast. Medium body touch too flat.
Tried
from Cask
on 07 Dec 2013
at 04:28
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
3rd December 2013
Pigs Ear. The Round Church, Hackney. Cask. Clear amber beer, residual white head. Palate is light and a little dry. Good superfine carbonation .Clean malt, touch of lactose. Light and mild marmalade, little orange. No obvious Galaxy hop character! Finishes dry.
Pigs Ear. The Round Church, Hackney. Cask. Clear amber beer, residual white head. Palate is light and a little dry. Good superfine carbonation .Clean malt, touch of lactose. Light and mild marmalade, little orange. No obvious Galaxy hop character! Finishes dry.
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Dec 2013
at 16:34
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Two hand-pulled pints in the lovely ’Bear’ at Hodnet, a tastefully restored old country inn: now almost a gastro pub (with rooms). 7th November 2013. Took a while to clear fully, but when it did you could see a true golden hue to the body, on top a creamy white head which stayed to produce some heavy lacing on the glass. The hops used (according to the pump-clip were from North Shropshire and they were the dominant ingredient my far: both fruity and floral they gave the beer a real hop feel without over doing it. Dry and fairly bitter, but a good brew with enough malts to prevent a total hop bomb scenario. Easy to drink and one of the better ’green hop’ beers I’ve had.
Tried
on 08 Nov 2013
at 05:35
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Hand-pulled half pint on 3 Oct 2013 at the Crown Inn, Oakengates (one of 34 different cask offerings during a beer festival). Lovely mid-amber body with a full and lasting white head of foam. Slight honey notes in an otherwise standard semi-dark mild: malty with a mini-bitterness that sits just below the surface and prevents the brew being sweet or too malty in flavour. Drinks very well for such a weak strength.
Tried
from Cask
on 04 Oct 2013
at 03:52
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Gravity poured half-pint in a tent near Market Drayton on 8th Sep 2013. Brewed using American Cascade hops and Pale Maris Otter Malts this was a clear, light amber beer with next to no head to see. Dry and woody in nature, a little one dimensional for a brewery that I’ve followed with interest since it’s conception and usually enjoyed their beers. This however didn’t set my taste buds alight and I found it a tad bland.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Sep 2013
at 14:31