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wheresthepath (3674) reviewed Tomahawk from Sambrooks Brewery 3 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6
Cask at the Back of Beyond (JDW), Reading. Red with a beige head. Toffee and brown bread. Quite a bit of pine with a smattering of red berries. Nice in small quantities, but I'm not the biggest fan of pine in beer and I wouldn't have wanted a full pint.
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Level 1 for Non Alcoholic / Low Alcohol - Dark / Stout ticks with a total of 5 ticks of this sub style.
Draught 0.0 from Guinness (St. James's Gate) was the one that did it!
3 months ago
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 7.5
Can at the Back of Beyond (JDW), Reading. It's black with a thick, lasting creamy head - if anything, it looks evrn better than regular Guinness. The taste though is definitely different to regular Guinness - in place of the usual dry coffee and smoke there was a semi-sweet combo of berries and cocoa that was rather tasty. The only downside is with the mouthfeel - somehow they've avoided the thin-ness that plagues most AF brews, but however they've done it has made the beer a little gloopy in the mouth. Fortunately that did not detract too much from my enjoyment of it. In fact, it's possibly the best AF beer I've had, and is equally as enjoyable as the regular Guinness (despite tasting very different to it). Nice one!
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Cask at the Back of Beyond (JDW), Reading. Unsurprisingly it's a chestnut colour (!) with a thin beige head to cap it off. Roast chestnuts in the flavour too, although possibly milk chocolate is more dominant. There's also toffee and a hint of autumn berries. A slightly powdery mouthfeel was the only downside. It'll be on the sweet side for some but I thoroughly enjoyed it.
wheresthepath (3674) reviewed Santa’s Ale from Vale Brewery 3 months ago
Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Cask at the Back of Beyond (JDW), Reading. Amber with a white head. Marmalade, rich tea biscuits and then a lot of twigs in the moderately bitter finish. As with most Vale beers, I found this slightly sub-par.
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Pasaulio Skoniai WIPA
brewed by Volfas Engelman
3 months ago
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added a new beer
Medium Still
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On Point Cider Co.
3 months ago
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updated a beer:
Tomahawk
brewed by Sambrooks Brewery
3 months ago
Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Many thanks to Theydon_Bois for getting this can for me as my first West Virginia rate. Sadly by the time I managed to meet up with him it was rather out of date. Shared it with Mark in a hidden corner of Vinny & Ted's in Beaconsfield so that the staff wouldn't see we were drinking stuff they didn't sell (to be fair, we'd bought a few beers from them too). It poured a murky red-brown with a decent beige head. A hint of burnt rubber in the aroma. On tasting it's sourish (no doubt age was a factor here) with orange marmalade, raisins, forest floor, caramel and pine coming through. All in all a little muddied and unpleasant. Maybe it's a little unfair to rate it given the clear impact age has had on it - but then Theydon_Bois said it was poor to start off with anyway. Plus I want my WV tick!