Subsidiaries
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask at the Hope Tap (JDW) Reading. I'm a big fan of elderberries. Each autumn my wife and I collect elderberries and make elderberry jam. I also make elderberry sauces to go with pork and lamb. I love elderberries. Do I was looking forward to this beer. It's an attractive deep mahogany colour with a loose beige head. There's toffee and wood to the fore, some lightly roasted malt and cappuccino, with a generic dark berry taste behind. There's a creamy texture, and a lightly dry finish with more wood it. There's a touch of leaf mulch, but it's not quite the full on elderberry flavour (ie blackcurrant mixed with woodland floor) thar I was hoping for. It's an ESB with fruity hints, that strays into porter territory at times. It's not a patch on my wife's jam, but I still quite like it.
Tried
from Cask
on 11 Apr 2019
at 20:41
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask at the Standing Order. Pours clear dark red with a thin off-white head. Aromas of elderberry and light faint caramel. Taste is sweet red berries. Not bad. Not very beery mind.
Tried
from Cask
on 31 Mar 2019
at 07:15
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at the standing order. Pours reddish brown, nose is berries, toffee, floral, taste is sweet, fruity, juicy.
Tried
from Cask
on 30 Mar 2019
at 14:59
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask handpull at Crosse Keys Spoons. Deep red brown colour lasting beige head. Malty best bitter. Sweetish malt. Malty aroma. Not much if any hop. Sweet malt beer building berry sweetness
Tried
from Cask
on 30 Mar 2019
at 10:34
7.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
On cask at the Standing Order. Appearance - deep autumnal red. Nose - blackcurrant and bready. Taste - big blackcurrant note with dry biscuit at the back. Palate - creamy through the middle and dry on the finish. Close to medium bodied. Overall - good.
Tried
from Cask
on 28 Mar 2019
at 15:26
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask (handpump) @ #MBCF19 - Day 3 🧙🍻🇬🇧, [ Manchester Beer & Cider Festival 2019 ], Manchester Central Convention Complex, Windmill St, Petersfield, M2 3GX Manchester, Great Manchester, England.
[ As Wadworth Cheeky Monkey ].
ABV: 5.4%. Clear light dark red brown colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, chocolate, dark malt, coconut, sweet malt, fruity malt, light to moderate roasted. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average duration, sweet malt, sweet chocolate, coconut, dark malt. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20190125]
6-3-6-3-12
Tried
from Cask
on 30 Jan 2019
at 13:20
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at the Manchester Beer and Cider Festival, 2019. Dark brown pour with a beige head. Nose of raisin, nuts, caramel. Same action in the flavour with some underlying coconut coming through.
Tried
from Cask
on 28 Jan 2019
at 21:39
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at a village bar in Dorset. Clear amber brown with an off white head. Aroma of malt, red berries and caramel. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter. Medium bodied with very soft carbonation.
Tried
from Cask
on 29 Dec 2018
at 11:03
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Clear golden colour with lasting creamy head. Nice balance of pale, biscuity malts and floral hops. Smooth texture.
Tried
on 24 Dec 2018
at 14:16
7.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
500 ml bottle, from British Corner Shop. ABV is 4.3%. Deep copper to reddish amber colour, moderate white head. Aroma of malts, brown bread, a little fruit, moderate earthy hops. The flavour has a slight acidic fruitiness on a firm background of dry malts and brown bread, moderate earthy hops in the finish. Pleasant to drink. .
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Dec 2018
at 00:42