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Keg draught at the Real Ale Classroom, Leicester city centre. Dark brown and clear with a small and slightly scummy tan head. Peanuts, coffee fudge, yeast extract and fleeting notes of smoke on the nose. Taste is sweet initially with more peanut notes with an intense and slightly jarring sour/bitter finish. Medium body and carbonation. A little strange in ways but I'm fond of this.

Tried from Draft at Real Ale Classroom - City Centre on 03 Jul 2025 at 18:08

jjsint (8803) reviewed

Liquid Swords from Azvex Brewing Company

1 year ago

6.6/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6.5 Flavor 6.5 Texture 7 Overall 7

Keg draught at the Real Ale Classroom, Leicester city centre. Muddy greenish gold, very hazy with a small uneven film of white head. Aroma of dank hop, tropical and citrus fruit, some icing sugar. Taste is sweet at first, some weed, some mint, more tropical fruit. Intense and not what I was expecting. Medium body and carbonation. Good but a little too intense for what it is, doesn't quite hang together.

Tried from Draft at Real Ale Classroom - City Centre on 03 Jul 2025 at 17:41

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Wayfinder Pale II from Two By Two Brewing

1 year ago

6.6/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6.5 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 6.5

Keg draught at the Real Ale Classroom, Leicester city centre. Light yellow/orange gold and hazy with a small ring of white head. Light citrus hop on the nose, some melon and stone fruit. Taste is sweet with citrus jokes and a drier bitter finish. Missing something somehow, it doesn't seem to pack any punch. Thin body with heavy carbonation. Weirdly hollow although drinkable enough.

Tried from Draft at Real Ale Classroom - City Centre on 03 Jul 2025 at 17:12

jjsint added a new beer Wayfinder Pale II by Two By Two Brewing
1 year ago

jjsint (8803) reviewed

Krush Sabro Oat from Two By Two Brewing

1 year ago

6.9/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 8.5 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7

Gravity cask at the Real Ale Classroom, Leicester city centre. Pours mid-gold and very hazy, not much head to speak of. Powerful aroma of pineapple, emotional creams, melon, some pine. Taste gives stone fruit, light creamy tropical fruit, a bit of spice and a sweet herbal character. Turning slightly bitter on the finish. Medium body, pretty flat. All in all good.

Tried from Cask at Real Ale Classroom - City Centre on 03 Jul 2025 at 16:56

jjsint added a new beer Krush Sabro Oat by Two By Two Brewing
1 year ago

jjsint (8803) reviewed

Chill from Shiny Brewing

1 year ago

6.4/10 — Appearance 7 Aroma 6.5 Flavor 7 Texture 5 Overall 6

Keg draught at the Blue Boar, Leicester. Light gold and hazy with a small white head. Aroma of gentle vanilla malt, some stone fruit. Sweet taste, more vanilla here and a hint of hop. Light body with low carbonation. Not much to it but I guess that is the point. It's pretty good for 0.3%.

Tried from Draft at Blue Boar on 29 Jun 2025 at 18:31

jjsint updated a venue: Brownhill & Co (Little Leeds Beer House) located in Leeds, England
1 year ago

jjsint (8803) reviewed

Landlady X from Baker's Dozen Brewing Co.

1 year ago

6.5/10 — Appearance 7 Aroma 4.5 Flavor 7.5 Texture 8 Overall 6.5

Draught keg at the 2025 Rutland CAMRA Festival, the County Museum, Oakham. Light gold and hazy with a very, very thin white head and a tiny amount of lacing. There's very little aroma for a high-ABV beer: light malt and citrus notes but nothing too definite. Sweet taste with tropical fruit bitterness in the finish. Nicely rounded bitter finish. Medium body with spritzy carbonation. Surprisingly anonymous but still very refreshing.

Tried from Draft on 28 Jun 2025 at 16:15

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Here’s The Thing from Nene Valley Brewery

1 year ago

6.3/10 — Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 5.5 Texture 6 Overall 6

Gravity cask at the 2025 Rutland CAMRA Festival, the County Museum, Oakham. Usually I go through rates in the same pattern: appearance, aroma, taste, finish, texture, summation. I'm starting this one by saying that this is possibly one of the sweetest beers I've ever had from a proper brewery. I like my sweet beers but this is something else. It is tawny brown, mostly clear with a very loose and uneven off-white head. Aroma of sweet fruits, super-sweetened tea. Taste... well I must admit that the finish has some bitterness but that is after the crazy sugar hit. Notes of mango and papaya (coated in sugar, hollowed out and filled with sugar). It's a good beer in ways I guess but the sweetness made it impossible for me to rate it objectively.

Tried from Cask on 28 Jun 2025 at 15:51