jjsint
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Setting - 9 | Selection - 7 | Service - 7 | Food - | Value - 5 | Overall - 7
The Cheshire Cheese looks a bit unloved from the outside, but the inside is welcoming and warm. A traditional hostelry, slightly low ceilings and slightly low-lit, large and a bit foodie (but not excessively so). There are about 6 casks from Titanic including one that would've been a new tick for me but I decided instead to go for one of the guests (a Cold IPA from Howling Hops). Not the most obvious choice in Buxton but a decent one.
jjsint (1552) reviewed Old Shoe 2 months ago
Setting - 8 | Selection - 9 | Service - 7 | Food - | Value - 6 | Overall - 9
Excellent medium to large bar with an attached shop. A couple of Handpull cask but it’s mostly a keg pub with about 18 craft beers. Loads of IPAs and hoppy pales, a few sours, a few porters/stouts. But the quality is superb, from mostly UK brewers suck as Beak, Verdant and Bullhouse. Prices are understandably dear, but good for what you’re getting. A top venue in Sheffield I’m sure. We’re so lucky there are places like this around.
jjsint (1552) reviewed Vocation & Co 2 months ago
Setting - 7 | Selection - 9 | Service - 8 | Food - | Value - 6 | Overall - 8
Smart and modern craft beer bar service mostly Vocation with two guests (Brew York and Schöfferhofer). It was pretty empty when I came in, but to be fair it’s a grey Thursday early afternoon in winter. If Vocation is your thing then this is your place: 5 cask and 18 keg.theres a nice variety of styles here including a couple of lagers and a Brut IPA (are they making a comeback)? I chose something more sessionable, which was fine if not hitting the heady heights of what Vocation can offer. Piped music is Britpop and Tom Petty. Won’t be everyone’s cup of tea but I liked it.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5
Handpull cask at Vocation & Co, Sheffield. Pale gold, not quite straw, clear with a flat white head. Fruity, grassy aroma, some bubblegum. Sweet taste, at first anyway, with an almost Belgian yeast quality to the flavour. Maybe I’m imagining it, perhaps if it was called ‘roter Bart’ I’d experience it differently. Soft fruit leading to a bitter astringent finish. Light body, soft carbonation. I’m not overly keen but it’s solid enough.
jjsint (1552) reviewed Bath Hotel 2 months ago
Setting - 10 | Selection - 7 | Service - 8 | Food - | Value - 3 | Overall - 9
Amazing pub just down from the Turkish baths, just off the university area. Old and okd-fashioned, with wooden panelling and a chequered tile floor. Six cask, mostly from reapected Northern outfits such as Neptune and Abbeydale. Beers generally on the high side of sessionable. A couple of keg worth paying attention to, but this is a cask pub. Condition of the beer is superb. The only drawback is the price, expensive in general and insane for Sheffield. But you're paying for the atmosphere. A great experience.
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Level 4 for Speciality Grain - Rye / Roggenbier ticks with a total of 25 ticks of this sub style.
Sirens Song from Neptune Brewery was the one that did it!
2 months ago
jjsint (8701) reviewed Sirens Song from Neptune Brewery 2 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Handpull cask at the Bath Hotel, Sheffield. Dark reddish gold, mostly clear with a small beige/khaki head. I can smell the sweet spiciness of the rye, lightly fruity with loads of gooey honey. Sweet taste, very honeyed with notes of caramel and sweet cooking spices. Bitterness on the downturn with a notably bitter finish. Its like two different beers. The body is light with very low carbonation. Nice.
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jjsint (8701) reviewed Farmers Blushed from Bradfield Brewery 2 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 4.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6
Handpull cask at the University Arms, Sheffield. Pinkish Red, clear with an off-white (with a soupçon of pink) head. It's got a lovely strawberries and cream aroma. Unfortunately this doesn't translate into the taste, which is medicinal with notes of straw and sulphur. There's some fruit buried way down here somewhere but my tongue isn't digging it out. Bitterness in the finish. Astringent. Light body with some sparkler-induced carbonation. Not my cup of tea, tastes like a boring beer infused with strawberry and it doesn't really work.
Setting - 8 | Selection - 8 | Service - 7 | Food - | Value - 6 | Overall - 7
Despite the name and the location, the University Arms caters for a variety of ages. I notice the last review was 7 years ago, but doesn’t sound like it has changed much. As you walk in, the walls are adorned with pumpclips of beers served. It's a nice open-plan pub, old fashioned without being twee or dire. There was a fire alarm when I was here, which I didn't mind. Nice of them to keep us safe. Anyway, there were eight casks - mostly from local-ish outfits, traditional and sessionable. Bradfield, Thornbridge, Acorn. A few keg, including one from Triple Point. Enough to choose from, and decent prices (although may be a bit dear for famously beer-cheap Sheffield).