Beowulf Grendals Winter Ale

Brewed by Beowulf
Style: English Strong Ale
Brownhills, England

Serve in English pint, Trappist glass

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UPDATED: JAN 15, 2004 Cask at the Old Joint Stock, Birmingham. Excellent winter brew, bursting with flavour. This is a fragrant and fruity brew, that packs an initially tropical punch, with grapefuit, peach, and pineapple notes jostling on your tongue. Further into your mouth, it settles down slightly, becoming plainer, dryer, with some prickling alcohol notes. Very good stuff.

Cask, somewhere in Birmingham. Brown pour with an off white head. Aroma of dark fruits, malts and raisins. Same aspects in flavour, fairly sweet and with a bitter finish.

Almost frozen, handpull, tent, The Shoes, Nuneaton. Expect big things from a dark Beowulf..Foaming, beautifully conditioned dark ruby beer with a rocky cream foam. Buttery roast, insole aroma. Finely sieved roast, spiced apple, Battenburg- discreetly boozy with a suck of Minstrel. There’s also a hay-like, sherbety, Sheppish hop streak. Very sheppish. Good but not brilliant- a little watery for a 5.8% Beowulf. But then the standards are high.

Cask (handpump) @ The Briar Rose, Birmingham B2, UK. Clear medium brown color with a average, creamy frothy, good lacing, fully lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, nutty, fruit, dark fruit as raisin / plum. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft - flat. (130108)

Cask at The Briar Rose?, JDW, Temple Hill, Birmingham 01-12-07 Mid brown in colour with a nice fruity nose. Fruity and juicy taste with reasonable bitterness, nice beer.

Cask Handpump at the Bar Fringe, Manchester 31/01/2002 Copper mid brown coloured and strong in alcohol. Fruity and malt flavours. Slightly bitter hop finish.