6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask (handpump) @ Great British Beer Festival, GBBF 2008, Earls Court, London, England SW5.Clear medium orange color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, fruity, moderate to light heavy hoppy, flowers, grapefruit. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. (080808)
Tried
from Cask
on 23 Oct 2008
at 03:21
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask at GBBF08. Hazy golden colour. Fruity and cardboardy aroma. The flavour is slightly sweet with sweet flowery hops, some cardboard.
Tried
from Cask
on 09 Sep 2008
at 18:20
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask@GBBF2008. Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is hops, nectar, mild apricot and some floweryness. Flavour is wood and mildly nectary notes.
Tried
from Cask
on 21 Aug 2008
at 00:47
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Clear golden with tiny white head. Sweet fruity aroma with citric and hoppy notes. Sweet flavor with caramel, fruity and dusty hops. Ends dry and bitter.
Tried
on 08 Aug 2008
at 18:07
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask gravity @ Reading Beer Festival 2008.Light unclear medium orange color with a small, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, moderate to light heavy hoppy, flowers, citrus. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and bitter with a long to average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. (020508)
Tried
from Cask
on 07 Jun 2008
at 06:08
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Cask handpump @ Reading Beer Festival 2008.Clear medium to dark amber brown color with a average, frothy - fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, caramel, chocolate. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium to full, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. (020508)
Tried
from Cask
on 07 Jun 2008
at 06:07
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask gravity @ Reading Beer Festival 2008.Clear medium red brown color with a average, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, burnt, coffee. Flavor is moderate sweet and moderate to heavy bitter (malt burnt bitter) with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. (020508)
Tried
from Cask
on 07 Jun 2008
at 06:06
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask gravity at Reading BF 08. I seemed to have quite a few milds at this festival, but this was a genuine dark ale. Deep ruby with thin beige head. Decent dark beer with lots of dark fruits. Rather a lovely aroma of choc and then velvety choc on the end. Actually superb and just as good as their dark mild.
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Jun 2008
at 11:17
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
[i] [b] Cask at the Royal Oak Beer Festival, Oakley, Bucks/Oxon border 03-05-08 [/i] [/b]Pours black with a thin white head. The aroma is really quite hoppy with some streaky liquorice there as well and also some nice roasted notes. Taste is really good, the liquorice returns along with a real punchy bitterness it occasionally gets a bit sticky and the malts really underpin things very well, a lovely beer but I’m a fan of Great Oakley and rarely have I had a bad beer from them, very good. I would have struggled to catergorize this had I have not known from the programme notes that it was an Old Ale, I thought that maybe it was another top notch yet slightly unusual Mild from Great Oakley.
Tried
from Cask
on 04 May 2008
at 11:47
2.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 2
Overall 2.5
Cask/gravity at Battersea Beer Festival 6 Feb 08. Dark red brown colored. No head. Aroma and taste of coffee. Just cold coffee. Not good.
Tried
from Cask
on 18 Feb 2008
at 15:08