7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
500ml bottle @ Benzai's Anti-Carnival Valentine's Day Tasting, Feb 26. Thanks to Mike for squirreling this away for me. Pours black, medium sized off-white head. Aroma of roasted malts. Flavour profile brings a hearty stout profile, good balanced malt, comforting roast, perhaps a hint of nuts alongside the roast, with a sessionable medium body. Proper stout. Slightly confused by what Benzai tasted, can only assume it wasn't this beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Mar 2026
at 13:30
5.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Bottle shared at Anti-Carnavalstasting 2026. Opaque brown to black color, average sized off-white head. Aroma and flavor are malts, green rotting leaves, bitter. Hmm no way off. Don't like it at all.
Tried
on 14 Feb 2026
at 17:12
7.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
500ml bottle, thanks to Mike! Pours black, inch-thick pale tan head. Good roasty edge, hearty feel, decent flavoursome stout overall. Why choose Guinness over this??
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Jan 2026
at 08:45
6.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 5.5
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
500ml bottle conditioned from Anthony's of Wellington, poured into a vase shaped UK pint glass at home on 10th January 2026. Clean golden body (no sediment left the bottle) and a white crust on top. Slight citrus nose and initial taste, malts kick in mid sip. Fruity and pleasant.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Anthony's of Wellington
on 10 Jan 2026
at 19:00
5.9/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
500ml bottle, thanks Mike for squirrelling this away for me! Pours a generally clear pale amber, good white head. Nice cereal malt whiff, comforting gentle malt character, but bears a sugary sweetness that doesn't feel at home, and builds throughout suggesting a fermentation issue at play. Something not quite right here.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jan 2026
at 07:55
7.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
500ml bottle conditioned, shared with Margie on 8th January 2026. I allowed the sediment to leave the bottle into my glass, so Margie's beer was clean and clear golden, while mine was darker and slightly hazed, white crust on both pours. As mentioned by others this is a fairly sweet beer, I liked it, as did Margie, malty and simple, no complexity, just a pleasant, sweet Pale Ale.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Anthony's of Wellington
on 08 Jan 2026
at 20:30
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6.5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
500ml bottle from Anthony's of Wellington. Poured into an old 'Abbot Ale' glass tankard at home on 16th December 2025. Very pale blond body, almost clear, just a slight haze, on top a solid crown of snow white bubbles. I then allowed the sediment to leave the bottle and I got a cloudy blond with a few floating 'friends' within the tankard. Highly carbonated (or just lively from the second fermentation), loads of rising bubbles in the body, lifting the sediment particles up and then dropping them at the top. Citrus fruit leanings and a decent bitterness, might have cooled it too much because there is no aroma at the moment. Ah, it's now beginning to produce a mild piney and wheat like nose, mild farmyard and dray horse blanket esters too!
Tried
from Bottle
from
Anthony's of Wellington
on 16 Dec 2025
at 14:15
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 8
500ml bottle conditioned, obtained from Anthony's of Wellington. Poured into a straight sided pint glass with a Gwanun Valley Brewery badge on it, just to make the beer feel at home. Second beer of a random tasting session with myself and no one else. Bertie is watching, while Margie and Auntie Sue are sipping (OK gulping) wine. Lovely bright copper body, off white crown on top. Malt forward and fairly sweet tasting, nice winter beer with herbal traces within it's make up. Liked it.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Anthony's of Wellington
on 10 Dec 2025
at 16:30
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Bottle. Nose has a hint of Brett if I didn't know better. Taste is corn, caramel, floral and a very dry finish. The yeast is fruity and again the faint hint of Brett. Very interesting
Tried
on 16 Nov 2025
at 22:51
7/10
Enjoyable rich & roasty
Tried
from Cask
on 17 Sep 2025
at 17:48