Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3
20th February 2017
Matteo’s Ciao @ Craft Islington. Thanks to Chris. Almost opaque dark brown beer, small pale tan head. Palate is light and fairly dry, modest fine carbonation. Mellow dark malts. Lots and lots of Christmas spices. Tangy fruits. Light dry finish. Classic heavy handed over spiced Christmas nonsense.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3
20th February 2017
Matteo’s Ciao @ Craft Islington. Thanks to Chris. Almost clear gold beer, tidy pale cream colour head. Palate is airy and dry, decent carbonation. Sweetish malts. Tangy apple. Bitterish citric peel. Light dry finish. Not good.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle shared at the CBC Islington for the Matteo farewell tasting. Thanks to Chris. A hazed golden orange coloured pour with a a thin white head. Aroma is veg, socks, caramel, sock. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, toffee, orange, air. Stale malts roast rose petal. Meh. .
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle shared in London / many thanks to Chris! Pours clear orange with a thick, creamy topping. Grainy and lightly toasted malts in the nose, leaves. Light sweet flavour with more pale grains, dried citrus peel, hay. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Finishes with some pine needles, more pine needles, a little earth. Not bad.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle shared in London / thanks to Chris! Pours clear deep brown with a frothy, tan head. Lots of wintery spices in the nose, toasted brown bread. Light sweet flavour with chalky cinnamon, bitter baking cocoa, scorched earth, torched grains. Light bodied with fine to average carbonation. Dry finish, fairly bitter, with burnt leaves, earth, dry cocoa, more holiday spices. So so overall,
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle shared at the CBC Islington for the Matteo farewell tasting. A dark brown black coloured pour with with small beige. Aroma is woody ginger, woody, herbal. Flavour is composed of semi sweet woody ginger, woody, herbal. Oregon. Pale is semi seet, moderate carbonation, woody, grainy tannin.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle at home... Thin white lacing... Soft sweet metalic toffee fruit nose... Soft sweet toffee fruit.. Herbal bitter fruits.. Long bready yeasty fruits
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Cask (gravity) @ NWAF 2015, National Winter Ales Festival (2015), The Roundhouse, Pride Park, Derby, Derbyshire, England, DE24 8JE. [ As Ampthill Festival Ale ].Clear medium to dark red brown color with a average, open and frothy, good to fair lacing, mostly lasting to diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, nutty, caramel. Flavor is moderate to light light heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a long duration, nutty, grapefruit, caramel, dry, fruity - licorice alike. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20150211]
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Tried at the Peterborough Beer Festival 2016. As Ampthill Brewhouse IPA. Amber colour with a white head. Seemed more bitter than IPA to me. Aroma flight fruit and floral. Taste caramel then bitter sweet.