6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask gravity at Reading BF 2010. Badged as Isca DPA. Gold, no real head. Rassy hop aroma. It’s ok, decent hay hop. OK, if not exceptional
Tried
from Cask
on 18 Jul 2010
at 02:58
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
On gravity at the Tuckers Maltings Beer festival, Newton Abbot 23/04/10. Near black in colour with a slight tan head. Aroma of black coffee and dark fruit. Flavours of plum, roasty malts leading to a dry finish. Good.
Tried
on 24 Apr 2010
at 05:45
6.3/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle 500ml.Clear medium dark brown color with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, sweet malt, chocolate. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, nutty, coffee notes. Body is medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20100119]
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Mar 2010
at 15:23
4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
Bottle 500ml.Clear medium to dark brown color with a small to average, frothy to fizzy, fair lacing, fully diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, light roasted - caramel - coffee, moderate yeasty, leather. Flavor is moderate sweet and light bitter with a average duration, leather, light coffee, dry, dissolvent. Body is light to medium, texture is watery, carbonation is soft. [20100119]
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Mar 2010
at 13:54
3.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 2.5
Bottled. A deep red beer with a thin off-white head. The aroma has notes of dissolvent. The flavor is sweet with notes of over ripe fruits, dissolvent, and other not so nice things.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jan 2010
at 15:55
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottled. A hazy red beer with a lazing off-white head. The aroma has notes of malt and caramel as well as a bit of nuts. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, caramel, and nuts, leading to a dry malt.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jan 2010
at 15:08
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle 50 cl. Pours a hazy deep amber with a rough off-white head. Sweet aroma of nuts and burned caramel. Medium body, low in carbonation, nuts and burned caramel. Very subdued bitterness. 190110
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jan 2010
at 14:44
3.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 2.5
Bottle 50 cl. Cear orangey brown with a lacing, rough off-white head. Roasted malts and dark fruits in the nose. Medium body, some roast but dominated by an odd chemical tang that clearly must be a fermentation error. Tar notes as well. No real bitterness. A very, very poor Porter. 190110
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jan 2010
at 14:15