6.5/10
Cask at Tamworth Beer Festival 2025
Tried
from Cask
on 26 Sep 2025
at 13:04
6/10
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Appearance 5
Aroma 5.5
Flavor 5.5
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask at Tamworth Beer Fest. Clear gold. No head. Aroma has slightly sour stone fruit. Flavourwise is similar but watered down, as is the syrupy element. Light-medium bodied. Slick. Soft-fizzy carbonation. Long dry slightly astringent. Bland.
Tried
from Cask
on 06 Sep 2025
at 22:05
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Tried
from Cask
at
Platform Bar
on 15 May 2025
at 15:19
6.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 7
Overall 6
Cask at the Plaform Bar, Hexham, 15/05/2025.
Clear golden topped with a lasting white cap.
Nose is grass, herb, straw, stewed fruits.
Taste comprises grass, fruit slice, herb, fruit cake.
Medium body, soft carbonation, semi drying close.
Okay cask affair if nothing I'd revisit.
Clear golden topped with a lasting white cap.
Nose is grass, herb, straw, stewed fruits.
Taste comprises grass, fruit slice, herb, fruit cake.
Medium body, soft carbonation, semi drying close.
Okay cask affair if nothing I'd revisit.
Tried
on 15 May 2025
at 15:17
7/10
cask at the pigs ear ..dark copper ..thin woody msltse..soft sweet woody caramel toffee malts
Tried
from Cask
on 14 Jan 2025
at 19:14
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle from Northumbrian Gifts. Pours a murky light brown with big beige foam - took a while to settle into a slightly scummy top .Aroma of caramel, raisins, nuts, dust. Taste of biscuit, raisins, plums, nice fruitiness, dusty and earthy hopping. Quite good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jan 2025
at 03:06
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle from Northumbrian Gifts. Pours a clear red-amber with thin off-white head. Aroma of plum, berries, caramel, malt, raisins. Taste of berries, citrus zest, toffee, bitter grassiness with spice notes. Light bodied. At first I found the conflicting flavour notes a bit odd but it turned out to be an interesting light red ale.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jan 2025
at 03:02
5.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Bottle from Northumbrian Gifts. Dark ruby red pour with small off white head. A fairly faint aroma of roasted malt and chocolate. Taste again quite simple with bitter roast malts dominating, some chocolate, nuts and light fruitiness. Medium bodied. Doesn't really have the colour of a stout but there is a bitter roastiness. Decent body. Not much else to it though.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jan 2025
at 03:02
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6
Handpull cask at the Platform Bar, Hexham. Deep golden with a hint of amber. Metallic aroma, some overripe orange peel. Tastes a bit better with a stong fruity bittersweet character. Quite marmalade-y but it workd here. Slight medicinal finish. Light body, no carbonation. Not really my sort of thing.
Tried
from Cask
on 27 May 2024
at 17:16
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
28th November 2023
Pigs Ear. Cask. Clear amber gold beer, small bubbly pale cream colour head. Palate is light and semi dry, decent fine carbonation. Light malts, sweet. Floral citrus, a little juicy peel, not that bitter. Light and semi dry finish. Tidy.
Pigs Ear. Cask. Clear amber gold beer, small bubbly pale cream colour head. Palate is light and semi dry, decent fine carbonation. Light malts, sweet. Floral citrus, a little juicy peel, not that bitter. Light and semi dry finish. Tidy.
Tried
from Cask
on 08 Jan 2024
at 10:19