Martinsh
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Appearance - 3 | Aroma - 4.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 4.5
On tap at Crewe Dog, Crewe. Pours a murky pale pink with minimal white head and good lacing. A bit of a strange aroma of chewy pink sweets and hints of bubblegum. In the mouth it starts off sharp and tart but with a hint of underlying sweetness. However, it soon becomes properly sour with raspberries, lactose and hints of sugar and vanilla. Finish is berry fruits. It's Ok but not my sort of beer at all.
Martinsh
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Lab Rat Raspberry Ripple Ice Cream Sour
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Ossett Brewery
3 weeks ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottle from local Home Bargains shop, drank at home. Pours golden yellow with minimal transient off-white head. There’s grains, mushy rice and citrus in the aroma. In the mouth there is a brief burst of juicy sweetness before metallic bitterness comes through to dominate. Flavour has grains, sweet malts, lemon and some hoppy hints leading to a dry metallic finish. Definitely in the middle of macro territory – but I’ve had worse.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5
On tap at Ebenezers, Crewe. Pours almost black with minimal beige head and medium carbonation. There’s roasted malts and chocolate in the aroma plus hints of biscuits. In the mouth it is decidedly sweet. Initial flavours are roasted malts, chocolate, cake and dark fruits. Later on traces of bitterness, spice and cola come through leading to a slightly fruity finish. This is reasonable – but not very exciting.
Martinsh
added a new beer
Layer Theory - Chocolate Gateaux Edition
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Atom Beers
3 weeks ago
Martinsh has a new beer style achievement
Level 1 for Belgian Style - Tripel ticks with a total of 5 ticks of this sub style.
Agnus Tripel / Abbey Pale Ale from Brouwerij Corsendonk was the one that did it!
3 weeks ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 9.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle at Hops, Crewe. Pours a lively, frothy golden amber, before settling down to a medium sized foamy almost white head and good lacing. There’s a flowery nose with Belgian yeast and hints of spice. In the mouth it has characteristics of sweet, sharp and bitter, but the sweetness does win out eventually. There are many layers to the flavour, malts, yeast, pine, grains, spice and coriander with even a little banana coming through after a while. Finish is dry with a little sweetness. This isn’t in the top rank of tripels but it’s still rather nice.
Martinsh (3573) reviewed Quill from Thornbridge Brewery 3 weeks ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Cask at Hops, Crewe. Pours an amberish red with minimal off-white head. There’s malts, caramel and a hint of butter in the aroma. In the mouth it starts off sweet and creamy with a slightly watery texture, but bitterness comes through very quickly. Flavour starts with Belgian hops, yeast and caramel, but a lot of extra layers come through later. Cake and marzipan plus hints of biscuits and apricots leading to a dry and slightly sharp finish. This is decent but not really an ESB, more a best bitter.
Martinsh (3573) reviewed Rat To The Future from Rat Brewery 3 weeks ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5
Cask at Crewe Dog, Crewe. Pours a slightly hazy golden brown with a small scummy cream head and good lacing. There’s malts and ginger in the aroma plus a hint of chestnuts. In the mouth it starts off sweet and creamy with malts, butterscotch and caramel. However after a while it spices up with cloves and cinnamon coming through leading to a quite bitter finish. This is reasonable. Bland at the start but the spicing up improves it no end.