3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
13th July 2009
BBE Jan 09. Clear dark red - brown beer. Crispish palate, slightly dry. Slightly sour, a little toffee apple and cinnamon. Finishes with more cinnamon apple tartness. Not bitter or overdry. Unusual and tasty.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask at NWAF 2009. A red-brown beer with a thin tan head. The aroma has notes of malt, spices - mainly cardemomme and cinnamon. The flavor is sweet with notes of cloves and cardemomme, leading to a dry very spicy finish. Too spicy for my liking.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle shared by nimbleprop on 1/10/10: Pours a transparent dark copper with a small, stringy-lacing off-white head. Aroma of toasty dark caramel and bready malts with a hint of figs and raisins. Starts with pretty good fullness and sweet dark caramel and biscuity malts with some grassy and piny English hops. Finishes drier and bittersweet. A pretty good English strong ale.
2.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
Bottle at first DC tasting of 2010.
Clear and light maroon with lots of fizz and an edge head.
Subtle candy caramel aroma with blatant alcohol.
Malts dominate the flavor, lots of alcohol. Slight funk and spice.
Light body
Difficult on the palate.
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
From DC Local tasting. Pours nearly opaque cloudy red from the yeast. Aroma is sour cherries, Brett. (?) Taste is very bready, doughy, some spices. Didn’t really come off as a heavy, spiced winter beer.
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
50cl, thanks nimbleprop. Clear dark red-brown body with medium tan head. Aroma is moderately sweet, plum, raisin, caramel, light cocoa. Taste is moderately sweet, raisin/prune, caramel, some alcohol, light cocoa. Medium-full body, low carbonation.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
16oz bottle sampled at the DC Local Tasting. Pours a translucent, amber brown with a thin, slightly creamy white head. The bottle says "Best by January 2009", which had some people worried. Aroma is tart, cherries, brett, chocolate, bread. Flavor has chocolate, bread, spices, nutmeg, caramel. Finish is dry.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask @ National Winter Ales Festival 2009, Manchester. Pours a dark amber brown color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty dark fruit aroma with some roasted hints. Sweetish malty caramel and dark fruit flavor. Has a sweetish sightly roasted malty caramel finish with hints of dark fruit in the aftertaste.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
I was told this was quite good prior to buying this, didn’t realise it was 7.5% and didn’t get my hopes up but was pleasantly surprised it lived up to the hype. "Plump" fruit characters is an accurate description for me as the fruit characters in this beer do stand out and seem very "round" and not one dimensional - in the aroma and taste, Quite filling probably could only have a couple or three.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask (gravity) @ The National Winter Ales Festival 2008, Manchester, UK. Clear medium amber red color with a small to average, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, raisin, plum, alcohol. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is watery, carbonation is soft, finish feel is moderate alcoholic. (160108)
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