Beachy Head Snow Drop

Brewed by Beachy Head
Style: Old Ale
Eastbourne, England

Serve in English pint, Snifter

bottle with ethereal. very complex nose of nettles, herbs, treacle, boiled pums and poison. looks a lot like engine oil, pitch black, littlest head. odd biting yet grassy hop notes in flavour mixed with roast coffee, flowers and some odd teasing bitterness. how odd indeed.

A Mes rate: bottle at Chris_O’s Ha Ha Ha Ha Gimme the Cheese Tasting.
Very thick dark brown with a thin beige rim. Very herbacious with some nice malt and definite notes of Sunday dinner stuffing. Thick and tarry with a lingering bitterness on the finish. Although the herby notes are pleasant enough they just take over a bit too much. Lick of ginger right at the death is lovely. Nice enough but not amazing.

Bottle purchased from the brewery, drunk with renffisch on 18th March 2008. Comes out of the bottle as a totally opaque, near-black engine oil of a beer. Massive aroma of treacle, nettles, sage and medicinal hops. Roasted malt flavours cling to the corners of your mouth as a fruity bitterness teases your tongue. Smooth and so oily that you could lube your car with. Greatness is just out of reach at the moment though as I can’t deny it is rather unbalanced. If Roger and Charlie can tweak the recipe a bit, this will be very special.