5.5/10
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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.
Tried
from Cask
on 14 Mar 2006
at 12:27
6.8/10
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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.
Tried
from Can
on 17 Jan 2006
at 13:49
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle: Amber orangey coloured, hazy, thin stable white foam; malty, fruity to vinous (sherry) nose, touches of hops and sulphur; taste is malty and fruity too with a faint herbal hoppiness, becomes drier and more bitter at the end, light bodied; quite complex ale, well rounded.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Dec 2005
at 00:13
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Deep copper colour with no head. A balanced aroma between malt and hops. Has a malty taste and then you get the bitter hops in your mouth, leaving you with a nice bitterness in the aftertaste.
Tried
on 16 Sep 2005
at 16:47
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Fine best bitter, good hoppy aroma balanced by tasty slightly fruity malts leading to a hoppy end. Does exactly what you would expect a best bitter to do
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jul 2005
at 04:14
5.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Pour is a nice red with a small white head. Aroma is fruity with a touch of malt. Flavor is roasted malts,slight fruit with a woody backbone. Finishes very dry. Nothing really great but worth the $1.99 a pint I paid for it.
Tried
on 12 May 2005
at 20:18
6.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Cask at Akkurat, Stockholm. Pale golden. Dryish and grassy with light body and lots of herbal spices. Pilsnerish malt character. Medium bitterness.
Tried
from Cask
on 25 Jan 2005
at 01:59
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Cask at Akkurat, Stockholm. Reddish brown. Nutty and lightly roasty. Sweet and light bodied with clean mouthfeel. Short finish with slight saltiness. Very mild. Understated.
Tried
from Cask
on 22 Jan 2005
at 02:59
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask conditioned at the Ipswich Beer Festival 2004. Deep copper coloured. Roasted malts, fruit and chocolate. Flavourwise if fits in the gap between a premium bitter and a porter, proving that "styles" are not an accurate science. Good beer.
Tried
from Cask
on 30 Sep 2004
at 07:16
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Bottled - an unimpressive looking copper ale pours, headless from the bottle - the aroma isn't much more encouraging, faint hints of yeast and dough - body is thin, but the flavor slowly reveals notes of bread, biscuits, a touch of gingerbread and a subdued sweetness - toasty hop finish - not all that complex, but it is a decent bitter
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Mar 2004
at 19:39