berkshirejohn (10223) reviewed Wild Hare from Bath Ales 19 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle: the commercial description is spot on - a golden beer, traces of white head;hoppy aroma; citrus taste; bitter finish. My favorite style, and an excellent example.
Fin (18365) reviewed Wild Hare from Bath Ales 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle picked up at Darts Farm, Topsham, Nr Exeter, Devon 12-11-06 had the same evening. Poured golden in colour, lovely fresh nose with aroma vanilla notes this is a crisp, fresh hoppy beer, with great fruity citrus flavours particularly grapefruit zinginess Loz chose this purely for the hare on the front, but she chose one of my favourite beers of the week. Cask conditioned gravity dispense at Merton Winter Beer Festival 17-02-07. Also great in cask format as one would expect nice light golden colour, plenty of flavour in this fresh fruity bitter excellent. also 3.9 in cask
Harrisoni (26233) reviewed Wild Hare from Bath Ales 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
500ml bottle from Asda. Old gold/copper colour with lasting rocky off white head. Attractive hop aroma. Quite intense for a UK beer, bit of sherbert, woody grapefruit. Malts are pretty good, some juicyness, but this beer is all about the grapefruit hops. Really rather nice. Something like an APA. On of the best aromas of any UK bottle beer IMO. I can see why others have rated it so highly. I like the intense hops and balancing malts.
Fin (18365) reviewed SPA from Bath Ales 19 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Cask at The Regal, (Wetherspoons pub) Gloucester 02-09-06. Golden beer with hoppy aroma, tasted both fruity and hoppy, slightly dry but pretty good beer.
Harrisoni (26233) reviewed Gem (Cask) from Bath Ales 19 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Cask handpull at Thomas Ingoldsby, JDW, Canterbury. Amber colour, lasting beige head. Caramel/toffee bitter with earthy citric finish. Fine, but not exceptional
Svesse (15730) reviewed Wild Hare from Bath Ales 19 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
(Cask at Akkurat, Stockholm 25 Apr 2006) Pale amber colour, with nice frothy head. Nose is fruity, with some sweet citrus and lemon or grapefruit aromas. Lots of nice hops. Fruity and hoppy taste with hints of grapefruit. Long, bitter and dry finish with loads of hops. A lovely little gem.
omhper (44752) reviewed Wild Hare from Bath Ales 19 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cask at Oliver Twist, Stockholm. Clear golden. Orangey nose with estery peach and marmelade. Sweet with firm, rounded mouthfeel. Sugary, lightly fruity and very hoppy with intense resiny bitter finish. Very flavourful and solid.
Svesse (15730) reviewed Gem (Cask) from Bath Ales 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
(Cask at Oliver Twist, Stockholm) Copper colour with firm, foamy head. Nose is malty, fruity with a bitter-sweet hoppiness and hints of sewage (in a weird but nice way). Taste is fruity (hints of dried apricots) and malty with a metallic, earthy, bitter and dry finish. Complex.
Harrisoni (26233) reviewed Festivity from Bath Ales 19 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Cask handpull at The County Hotel, JDW, Ashford. Black beer, beige head. Deep ruby in fact on colour. Thick in mouth. Toffee maybe diacetyl on the aroma? Certainly the barman thought it was toffee when he tasted it. But then better in mouth. Hints of dark rum maybe with black treacle. Not overly sure that this is how it is supposed to be.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Festivity from Bath Ales 20 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Small, dwindling beige head over dark brown beer. Chocolate and caramelmalt, even toffee, quite aromatic nose, with a point of British hops in the finish. Dry combination of bitter chocolate, coffee dregs and cigarette ash (this description should turn off the most hardy, yet it is true, and it’s quite nice - the beer, not the description) in the taste. Just a fleeting hint of malty sweetness, bit quite some stout-like acidity. I can find some liquorice, but I’m struggling with the notion of saltiness (not my forte). Dry cookies. Very dry porter, not exactly rich texture. More than decent porter, however not really Christmassy, IMO. Txs, MattW.