3.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask @ Oliver Twist, Stockholm
Almost close to a brown ale, this. Smooth maltiness and a dark fudge sweetness. Slightly thin body and a dry long aftertaste.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask, Anne of Cleaves, Melton Mowbray. Dark red/brown with a dense cream head. Aromas are chocolate and roast malts. Bitter with hints of sulphur. Flavours are rich and malty with chocolate and winter fruit. Has raisins and yeast, also. Lots of hops bitterness with a dry finish. Tasty and addicitve.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
1. Cask Handpump at the Pot Of Beer, Manchester 09/02/2002
Dark couloured beer that’s slightly rich on the palate. Malty with a lasting bitter finish.
2. Cask Handpump at the New Barrack Tavern, Sheffield 01/05/2004
Mid brown and fruity with a slightly dry crisp lasting malt finish.
3. Cask Stillage at the GBBF, Kensington Olympia 05/08/2005
Mid brown with some alcohol and spice aroma. Fruity slightly dry lasting malt finish.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask conditioned @ South Western Arms, Soton. Fruity malt aromas with liquorice and a hint of chocolate. Masses of earthy liquorice in the mouth with a light hop finish.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Beer No 25 on the Wilsons’ Road Trip 2005. Cask at The Hop Pole, Bath. Dark amber with aroma of chocolate, roast barley, toast, chocolate, dark fruits. Good mouthfeel with roasty and fruitily acidic finish.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
(cask-conitioned at Akkurat, Stockholm) Clear dark brown appearance. Vague dusty coffee aroma. Cocoa powder and rasted malt in the flavour. Salt and resin in the short finish. Thin body.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask aty the Pig and Fiddle, Bath. As a bitter it does a reasonable impression of a porter, very good non the less. Dark brown coloured with a creamy off-white head. Roasted malts are the domonant flavour, also fruity and chocolate in there. Dry finish and medium bodied.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask conditioned at the Ipswich Beer Festival 2004. Deep copper coloured. Roasted malts, fruit and chocolate. Flavourwise if fits in the gap between a premium bitter and a porter, proving that "styles" are not an accurate science. Good beer.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
This is not an easy beer to categorise. The programme lists it as a porter, whilst it is on the site as a premium bitter. The colour is a quite deep chestnut, but it is nowhere near as opaque as might be expected of a porter. There’s certainly a lot of fruit character here, with some underlying bitterness, roast malt and hints of coffee and chocolate. Dry finish. Whatever style it is, I rather liked this beer. Cask (gravity dispense), Ipswich Beer Festival.
2.5 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
[Cask conditioned] Deep brown coloured. Unpleasant rubber notes in the aroma. Mild flavour with notes of mint. Slightly thin.
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