4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 2
Overall 4
Bottle shared in London on cloin's 20k - cheers to Dave. Pours unclear golden-brown wit a small, creamy head. The nose holds toasty grains, old orange peel. Light sweet flavour, strongly bitter, very astringent, with dry wood, pine. Light to medium bodied with fine to average carbonation. Finishes with more aggressive astringency, woody dryness, old carpets, bitter citrus peel. Not good at all.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Sep 2017
at 13:59
3/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 2
Bottle at L42. It pours hazy red - brown with a massive foamy beige head. The aroma is sweet, tangy, dried fruit, manure, wet cardboard, spice and dirt. The taste is crisp, dry, tart, dried berry, earthy, dirt, earth, leather, stewed black tea and burnt plastic with a drying finish. Medium body and fine, prickly carbonation. Really shit overall. Filthy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Sep 2017
at 13:54
4.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 3
Bottle split at my 20 KAY tastin, thanks to the Wingmane, 13/09/17. Hazed amber with a RIDICULOUS egg shell white head of boobles. Nose is ... not a lot ... light citric notes, straw, grains, bread, faint caramel. Taste comprises light hops, orange marmalade, caramel, light bread, plastic tang. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close splahed with earthy hop bitterness. Hmmmm .... not G reat.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Sep 2017
at 13:53
4/10
Tried
on 13 Sep 2017
at 13:50
3.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 4
Bottle from Cotteridge Wines; this beer was quite embarrassing went off like a Catherine wheel, really fizzy no bipa character, brewer is a weirdo.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Sep 2017
at 13:49
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask at the Peterborough beer Festival 2017. A mostly clear golden coloured pour with a fading white head. Aroma is sweet doughy malts, hay, underfermented, grassy hop. Flavour is composed of hay, rustic light malts, damp straw, rough grassy hop,. Palate is pithy dry, lowish carbonation, medium light. Rough round the edges.
Tried
from Cask
on 26 Aug 2017
at 07:59
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Handpull cask from the Blue Boar, Leicester. Reddish brown and hazy with a quickly large and fairly quickly disappearing white head. Light aroma of raspberry, cloth, ground coriander. Not great but not off-putting. Bittersweet fruity taste with a nicely balanced profile through to the finish. More raspberry and some carob in the grainy aftertaste. Drinkable if odd, and grows on me (slightly).
Tried
from Cask
on 22 Aug 2017
at 12:53
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Tried in a bottle from Hopology. My second attempt after a production error left me with a pale ale. Deep almost black colour with a big tan head. Aroma roasted and Treacle taste light busting sweet and roasted bitter. Full rich body.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Aug 2017
at 13:18
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Handpull cask at Broood, Leicester. Dark brown with considerable translucency like a soda. Pine, chocolate malt and a touch of liquorice in the aroma. Taste is bittersweet and dominated by roasted malt. Finishes considerably more bitter than it starts, with some aggressive hop vying for attention. Body is a bit watery. It’s OK.
Tried
from Cask
on 17 Aug 2017
at 13:25
7.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Handpull cask at the Landsdowne, Leicester. Very dark brown but not quite black, and with a hint of translucency. Big khaki head. Roast coffee, liquorice, blackberry on the aroma. Bitter burnt malt taste, following through to the finish. More forest fruit in the aftertaste. Very nice porter, and absolute bags of character for 3.9%.
Tried
from Cask
on 09 Aug 2017
at 11:49