olio (15000) - Tampere, FINLAND - SEP 17, 2016275 ml bottle @ Tammela Vintage Tasting. 2005 vintage.
Pours clear orange color with a small head. Aroma is syrupy, malty and ripe fruity. Flavor is sour fruity, flat, caramel malty and a bit wooden dry. Weird.
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lusikka (7837) - Espoo, FINLAND - SEP 17, 2016275 ml bottle @ Tammela Vintage Tasting. Pours a dark brown colour without a head. Aroma of sweet raisiny notes, a bit of red berries and some grass. Flavour of heavy raisiny sweetness, strong red berry sourness (red currant), mild bitterness and some soap. Medium bodied and low carbonation. Not good.
laiti (11482) - Tampere, FINLAND - SEP 17, 201627,5 cl bottle @ Tammela vintage tasting
No BBE or bottling info
Aroma has raisins, sweet malt and toffee. Flavour has tart oud bruin tones, some caramel and toffee. Finishes sour and tart with green apples and more caramel. Red wine is strong with this one. Not sure what to think about this; not good but not bad either.
Garrold (10670) - Sheffield, South Yorkshire, ENGLAND - MAR 28, 2016Bottle. Cotteridge Beano v2. Murky, oxidised beyond drinkable. Could just smell vinegar. Tasted little better.
RichTheVillan (10685) - Birmingham, West Midlands, ENGLAND - MAR 9, 2016Bottle at CWC II; murky dark brown pour with some floaters, zero head, winter fruit aroma, taste has sweet caramel along with some tart fruits, some spices, along with dreaded oxidisation.
SarkyNorthener (5200) - West Bromwich (Yorkshire Expat), West Midlands, ENGLAND - MAR 8, 2016Cotteridge Convention II. Bottle shared thanks to beersiveknown, cheers Steve. Dark Amber beer. Aroma of caramel and malts. Taste is toffee and a little stale malt, some richness still lingers. Ok.
Fin (17268) - Innernzell, GERMANY - MAR 7, 2016 Bottle Share at Ratebeer meet up, Cotteridge Wines, Cotteridge, Birmingham Saturday 5th March 2016 cheers to Beersiveknown for this one. Pours a rather murky gloomy brown colour it is as if the beer is breaking down a little and colour is leaching out, a few tiny blobs of something float about. Quite oxidised, tart and sourness prevail, fruity. The beer has long gone leaving a few remnants of what once was. I have had a few aged beers of late, i.e. Pannepot Reserva, Westvleteren 8, Fullers Vintage 1999, I am coming to the realisation that ageing for the majority is pointless, yes 2-3 years maybe but any longer is a huge gamble. A5 A3 T5 P3 Ov10 2.6
Mr_Pink_152 (14467) - The Shire, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, ENGLAND - MAR 6, 2016Tried at Cotteridge 2. Murky drown colour. Aroma is stewed fruit aroma, a touch christmas pudding. Taste is light sweet. nice considering age.
Ferris (23108) - Burnaby, British Columbia, CANADA - DEC 9, 2015Bottle - Prune, raisin and brown sugar. Dirty brown. Prunes, rials and date. A little light on the palate. If this were a bit richer on the palate it would have been a gem, otherwise not bad for its age.
Yorker (5749) - Nowhere in particular, DENMARK - NOV 30, 2015Corked 27.5 cl bottle @ home. Pours hazy dark amber with a lot of sediment and no head. Aroma and flavour are dried fruit, alcohol, and caramel - with an alcoholic finish.