Strong Ale - Other ✅
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Pours a hazy orange from a can. Heavy coriander aroma with some orange peel. Similar flavor. Rather bitter. Good beer.
Gripweed57 (8744) reviewed IPA from Mayflower Brewing Company 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
On tap at Sea Dog Brewpub in Yarmouth. Medium gold pour. Almost no head. Aroma of citrus and pine. Flavor is bittersweet citrus with notes of grapefruit and lemon pith. Pine and black pepper finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Pours a nice golden yellow from a can, a little hazy and lacy. Wine grapes, a little overripe tropical fruit and faint pine resin in the nose and the mouth. Very good beer.
Fairly tart, more peach than guava.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
1st August 2023
GBBF Day 1. Cask. Hazy amber beer, small cream colour head. Palate is light and semi dry, decent fine carbonation. Smooth sweet malts, caramel and cream. Estery mid. Ripe fruits. Sweet bourbon and spice on the back end. Spicy semi dry finish. Drinkable.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Cask at GBBF 2023 - Day 1. Pours clear toasted gold with a small, foamy off-white head. Medium to big sweet flavour with well toasted malts, caramel, booze, torched barrel. Full bodied, oily and chewy, with fine carbonation. Hot finish, some toasted caramel, orange peel, woody dryness, more booze. So so. Not subtle.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Pours clear dark mahogany into a shaker. Tan head with little retention recedes to mottle surface. Bubblegum, fig and clove aromas. Thick with fig, date, clove and bubblegum front to back. Warm treacle finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Pours a hazy orange from a can. Citrus and papaya aroma and flavor, sweet and juicy. Good beer.