2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Dark amber with a small white head. Aroma of caramel and toffee with a mild fruitiness. Sweet caramel flavour with toffe and a bit of fruit.
3.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 14/20
Clear glass bottle. A beautiful gradient red-amber body with a soapy beige head. Nose holding some caramel and toffee, a little gritty and a little nutty. Smooth, lightly crisp attack smooths out some more, reveals a beautiful, absolutely beautiful yeasty-bready flowering. Light bitterness, relatively dry, hops and a little hard water, some mild tobacco and ash. A nice woody character. Faint fruit is a little oblique. I’m probably more fascinated by this than most, but today it’s layered and deep.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
0,5l bottle from Brittish Store, Budapest. Clear, light amber color with medium, off-white head. Sweet, grainy caramel aroma with peanuts, some spicy bitterness and a little smoke. Light bitter-sweet taste. Light to medium body, slick texture and average carbonation. Long peanut and roastedmalt finish. Delious, light, English-style ale. Interesting nutty aroma. Nice one.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
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3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
2010 review. Dark amber colour with small head. Aroma is malt, caramel. Flavour is caramel, sweet.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Medium offwhite head. Clear brown body. Deep caramelly nutty aroma with roasty herbal resiny notes. Dry-sweetish caramelly earthy taste with roasty grainy notes. Mid-to-light body. Mild, soft mouthfeel. Dryish, and faintly acidic, earthy caramelly aftertaste wth perfumy nutty vanilla notes. Nice, and highly drinkable. (0.5l bottle from a supermarket in Moscow, Russia.)
2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Bottle. Deep coppery body, small off-white head. Nose is caramel, pale malts and hints of nuts. Taste is lightly roasty malts, grains and hints of caramel and astringent herbs. Watery palate. A bit of a letdown; the label spurred me to believe that this was a Scotch Ale. It clearly wasn’t.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle from Asda Bridge of Don. It pours deep mahogany brown, with a thick white head. The nose is wood, leather, caramel, biscuit and toasted malt. The taste is wood, leather, toasted malt, cardboard, caramel, charcoal and digestive biscuit, with a dry finish Medium body, moderate carbonation and foamy mouth-feel. Not bad.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle 500ml. Pours - as visible from the clear bottle - dark copper with a nice meidum frothy head. Aroma bread, floral, grass. Slightly sweet british caramel bitter taste. Medium body. Not Bad
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Pours clear amber with a low head. Aroma and flavor are mostly malts. Quite basic ale.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
[500ml bottle] Pours a dark caramel colour with a very generous white head. Rich, toffee aroma – plenty of sweetness on the nose. May not exactly be ’poetry in a glass’ as claimed, but the malt balance is good enough, and although quite sweet, there’s no sickly molasses-heavy aftertaste that befuddle many of its contemporaries. Burns was fond of ’reaming swats’, and I think he would approve of this one [25012009]
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