6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
(Bottle 50 cl) Beautiful, clear, reddish amber with a creamy, off-white head. Malty nose with accents of spices and nuts. Good, full body with lots of roasted malt, caramel, fruit nuts and again some spicy accents, albeit I believe none are added. Maybe the oats and rye are responsible for breaking the traditional English malt profile adding a spicy edge. Quite lovely. 260106
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Jan 2006
at 06:52
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
An amber beer with a huge orange head. The aroma is sweet with a strong hop presence, but from a boring hop sort. The flavor is sweet with a strong caramel note, but also a slight pebery note, leading to a dry hoppy end - again not a favorit hop of mine.
Tried
on 26 Jan 2006
at 13:49
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Hazy amber ale with a thin white head. Strong caramel aroma with light hops in finish, fruity. Rich malty taste, rather strong butterscotch in mouth, biscuitty. Rather plain in mouth, medium bodied. Bought at Waitrose, London, Feb. 2005. Shared with Chris, and Mike, November, 2005.
Tried
on 05 Jan 2006
at 21:26
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pour is a cloudy brown with a small white head. Aroma is a touch of malts with a nice hop quality to it. Flavor is even better. Very bready malts with a nice mix of hops used. Finshes with just enough bitterness to make this one above par. Worth looking for.
Tried
on 02 Jan 2006
at 18:13
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Now laballed "Organic English Ale" or at least I figure this is the same beer. Its definitely an ESB. And a fairly nice bottled example at that. Nose is straiight up caramel with a flutter of orange blossom and grassy hops. Well balanced flavor, with earthy caramel malts, grassy, dusty, almost cobwebby hops. Medium bitter finish is perfectly integrated, just the right bittering levels. Just an easy drinking ale with character.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Nov 2005
at 17:26
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
500ml bottle from Waitrose. Chestnut colourwith thin tight beige head. Good rich malt nose with grapefruit citrus hop. Also has toffee and candy sugar. OK in mouth with more coffee, toffee, candy sugar then good strong citrus hop. Quite a good winter ale
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Nov 2005
at 03:49
5.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
500ml bottle from Waitrose. Slightly hazy copper/orange with thin disappearing white head Earthy hops and grapefruit aroma. Mouth is soft and a bit nothing really leading to finish that has more grapefruit, touch of acid and some faint dryness. Just needs more flavour overall and more body in mouth
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Oct 2005
at 15:40
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
500ml bottle from Waitrose. Copper colour with thin white head. Slightly sulphur and spicey hop aromas. OK in mouth with more spicey hop on the end. Almost like ginger. Fine , just a little bit dead and metalllic
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Oct 2005
at 15:02
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Bottle from Sainsburys. Copper/orange colour, faint white head. Lots of green apple and hop and yeast. OK in mouth with apple/yeast/hop finish. Dusty with a touch of caramel. Not a big fan
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Sep 2005
at 14:17
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
(Bottle 50 cl) Very dark amber, very hazy with almost no head. Nutty, lightly sweetish aroma. Rather dry with notes of nuts and caramel - weak yeasty flavour. A quite exciting brew. 030905
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Sep 2005
at 04:30