Art Brew Born In A Barn

Brewed by Art Brew
Style: English Strong Ale
Bridport, England

Serve in English pint, Snifter

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Bottle. Black with a small head. Malty with spices in background. Quite well bottled which is more than you could say about their only other beer that I have tried. Therefore an improvement but stil not very exciting.

Bottle. Dark brown with no foam. Aromas are cola with marzipan and festive cloves and spices. Slightly oily with cola and dark chocolate and treacle. Lightly smoked with hints of ginger. Flavours are earthy and dry with raisins and dark chocolate. Plummy with trace garlic and mixed spices. Vegetable notes with a herbal finish. OK.

Reddish-brown. Rich malts, sugar sticky with cinnamon and lots of clove. Very clovey on the palate, too, with cinnamon and maybe some fruits and lots of sticky malts.

Cask @ Royal Oak Bath. Rich dark garnet hue. Scant head. Aroma is spritzy, with mild cinnamon. Soft palate makes it drinkable. Great spice profile makes it just the way I like a winter ale. Solid sweet malts and a spicy finish. Good.

1st December 2010
Pigs Ear. Clear brown beer, ghost of a white head. Light palate, light coca cola and milk chocolate. A little licorice. Some repressed fruit. Semi dry finish. As Leighton said - vaguely Pumpkin beer like. Not bad though.

Cask at the Pig’s Ear BF 2010. Pours dark amber-brown with a filmy head. Rich pumpkin and spice aroma with some malts. Very sweet flavor, tons of pumpkin, nutmeg and other "winter" spices, and some bread. Medium bodied with fine to average carbonation. Spicy finish with nutmeg and cinnamon, pumpkin, bread and ginger, and light bitterness. Pretty damn good. I liked it.

A Mes rate. Gravity at the Bree Louise.
Amber brown with a thin off white head. Full on Christmas beer type stuff. Lots of spice and clove, Christmas pudding and plenty of malt. Decent stuff just not my type of thing.

Cask (handpump) @ Wenlock Arms, 26 Wenlock Road, London, Greater London England N1 7TA.
Clear dark brown color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, carame, spices, cinnamon, cloves. Flavor is light light heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, spices. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat, finish feel is light spicy and alcoholic burn. [20091228]

Cask at O’Briens. Dark chestnut with a cream head. Aroma is cloves, and a sourness reminiscent of old ales. The flavour is way too spice heavy - cloves and cinnamon mostly, plus nutmeg and some prune and molasses, with a burnt aftertaste. The pub also had Cottage "Between the Posts" on which was an identical colour, so I tried a half-and-half and it was very nice. It balanced the spices with a good chunk of malt. Art Brew has been taking the p1ss of late...

Cask@The Wenlock Arms, London. Dark ambery brown colour with mediumsized off-white head. Aroma is spices, plum, alcohol as well as some sweet maltyness. Flavour is quite much the same in a nice balance.