6/10
Tried
on 12 Jan 2025
at 09:35
6/10
Tried
on 12 Jan 2025
at 09:34
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at the great British winter beer festival. A clear amber orange coloured pour with a halo of white head. Aroma is semi sweet, rounded, caramel, vanilla. Fudge. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, rounded nutty. Palate is semi sweet, rounded, caramel, fudge. Ok,
Tried
from Cask
on 08 Jan 2025
at 20:52
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Tried
on 08 Dec 2024
at 09:01
6/10
Tried
on 26 Nov 2024
at 21:50
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask at Creaky Floorboard, Derby. Pours golden ye;;pw with a small off-white head and good lacing. There’s floral hops and citrus in the aroma. In the mouth it fluctuates between fairly sweet and slightly bitter, with a little sharpness thrown in for good measure. Flavour has a mix of traditional and floral hops, plus lemongrass and some citrus. Later there are hints of grapefruit leading to a quite bitter finish. This is decent – plenty of bitterness for an old school IPA.
Tried
from Cask
on 20 Oct 2024
at 16:15
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at the Pup and Duckling, Solihull. Poured a slightly hazy yellow golden colour with a short-lived, thin white head. The aroma is malt, woody hops The flavour is moderate to light bitter, with a light, slightly watery, yeasty, malt, light woody hop bitter palate. Medium to light bodied with soft carbonation. Nice enough but lacks any real defining characteristics.
Tried
from Cask
on 18 Jul 2024
at 20:57
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
31/5/2024. From cask at the 37th Colchester Real Ale and Cider Festival. Pours very dark brown with a small bubbly off-white head. Aroma is roasted, malty, nutty, chocolate, toffee, molasses. Medium sweetness, moderate bitterness and body. Oily with soft carbonation. Much better than expected based on previous reviews.
Tried
from Cask
on 02 Jun 2024
at 16:19
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at Victoria, Derby. Pours a dark burgundy with minimal tan head. There’s roasted malts nd raspberries in the aroma. In the mouth it is sweet and watery, but fruitiness quickly makes itself evident. Flavour of raspberries and summer fruits at the start, and later some old English spangles and hints of nuts and humbug. Finish is fruity and slightly bitter. This is quite nice – but doesn’t have much porter characteristic.
Tried
from Cask
on 01 May 2024
at 22:20
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Saturday 13th April 2024, Bertie, Margie and I in Tamworth on a pub crawl. Hand-pulled half-pint in the Sheriff of Tamworth. Clean amber body, off-white crown. Malty and fruity, nice blend, piney, earth too.
Tried
on 14 Apr 2024
at 06:57